Beautiful Legend: An Angsty College Romance by Waverly Alexander

Author:Waverly Alexander [Alexander, Waverly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-03-24T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

Josh dug most of Remi’s final resting place. Taylor and Laney knew about this spot, but Josh was the only person I’d ever brought here. Dr. Alexander was kind enough to allow me to use a part of her 102-acre farm to give them a peaceful resting place since I didn’t have any land of my own. It was a little bit of a hike past the big red horse barn and out through the cow pastures, where there were several rescued dairy cows that were too old to produce milk and would have otherwise been euthanized, and probably not in a humane way.

We were in a wooded area near the pond. I used my hands to push the cold dirt on top of the sealed box that held Remi and her glow worm. Josh followed suit, dropping the shovel. We didn’t speak, but we didn’t need to, and I found myself thinking that I was thankful I had someone to share this with. He swiped the wooden marker with ‘Remi Sue’ painted in mint green to match her collar and dug it into the head of the grave. I smiled. Dr. Alexander never forgot a detail.

“There's so many,” he finally said, sitting down next to me and wiping his dirty palms on his jeans.

“Seven.” I nodded, not looking up from the white card Dr. Alexander handed me when we picked up Remi. “She gives me one of these every time to remember them.” I showed him the black ink paw print that belonged to Remi, and a tear rolled down my cheek. He reached out and caught the tear before it could fall.

“Will you tell me about them?” He pulled me over to sit sideways on his lap, and I burrowed my tear-streaked face against his neck.

“What do you want to know?” I tucked the paw print inside the pocket of my hoodie. Then despite my fingers being cold, I chose to keep my hands out and wrapped around his bicep. Just the feel of his muscle moving under my fingertips calmed me.

“All of it,” he breathed against my ear, squeezing me to his chest. “I want to know everything,” he murmured, his hand soothing through my hair.

I pulled back to look up at him for a long moment, so lost in his eyes that I didn’t even know where to begin. He leaned down and pressed a kiss to the apples of each of my cheeks and a final one on my nose.

“But right now, you’re freezing, and it’s starting to get dark,” he said softly, helping me to stand up.

As we trekked back toward his truck, he held my hand and slowed his long strides to match my shorter ones. When I was sliding in the passenger side of his truck, he held the door, watching as I buckled my seatbelt.

“You owe me some stories when we get back.”

“You owe me a couple, too.” I tilted my head as if to challenge him.

When we finally headed

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