End Game (Dawson Family Series Book Two) by Emily Goodwin

Author:Emily Goodwin [Goodwin, Emily]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-07-31T16:00:00+00:00

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Archer

Smiling, I take Quinn’s hand. “Things are quite different now than the last time we walked up and down this river.”

“You’re not kidding,” she says back with a laugh. We just got done with dinner and are enjoying the night out together.

“Though one thing is the same.”

“What?”

My heart is in my throat, but this time I’m not nervous. “I was in love with you then, like I am now.”

Quinn stops short, grip on my hand tightening. Her lips are slightly parted with shock, but her eyes are sparkling. “What?”

I pull her close, heart thumping away. “If you’re not ready to say it back, that’s okay. But I’ve been wanting to tell you for a long time. I love you.”

“I love you, too.”

“Really?”

“Yes,” she says with a laugh, blinking back tears. “I knew I was falling but was scared you didn’t feel the same.”

“I do, babe. I really fucking do.”

Unable to keep my lips off hers any longer, I lean down and kiss her deeper than I should be kissing her in public, but I can’t help it.

“Wait.” She breaks away and for a split second, I think she’s going to tell me she takes her words back. “You were in love with me that night we hooked up?”

“I’ve been in love with you for even longer than that.” I take her hand again and lead her to a bench. We sit, and I wrap her in my arms. “Do you remember the first time we met?”

“When you came home with Dean?”

“No, when Dean was moving into the dorm.”

“Oh, yeah. I do now. I thought you were cute.”

“I thought you were too,” I confess for the first time ever. “I didn’t realize you were so young. You had on a tight black dress and your tits were practically falling out. You looked older than fourteen.”

“I forgot about that. I bought my first pushup bra the day before and Jamie and I were going to talk to seniors down at the lake. My dad found out and made me come with them to Purdue. I was so mad.”

“I was all for making a move until I found out you were four years younger than me.”

“That wouldn’t have gone over well with my brothers.”

“Not at all. You were a minor.”

“But then I wasn’t,” she starts.

“Trust me, on your eighteen birthday I thought about it. I’ve always been insanely attracted to you, Quinn. And then I got to know you—and your family. Things got complicated. I didn’t tell you how I felt before out of respect for Dean. He’s more of a brother to me than my own brother. Hell, Logan, Owen, and Wes are too. But then I saw you again the weekend of Dean’s engagement party, and it was so hard not to kiss you.”

“Is that why you were such an asshole?”

“I wasn’t an asshole.”

She snickers and rolls her eyes. “Sure you weren’t.”

Running my hand over her hair, I chuckle. “Fine, and I have no excuse for it. I didn’t know how to deal with it.

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