Noah (More Than Friends Book 2) by Fiona Keane

Author:Fiona Keane [Keane, Fiona]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Limitless Publishing, LLC
Published: 2019-04-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

By the time we cleaned up, let Muffin out, and fed her cats, Lizzie and I were spent. She was still giggling and talking, high on her friends, even as she changed into my t-shirt and brushed her teeth. I said a lot of “yeah” and “uh huh” while she brushed her teeth and washed her face, totally unable to make out what she was saying.

Curling into bed sometime after two in the morning, I didn’t want to let go of Lizzie. The knot we tangled into, the perfect curve of her body against mine, it all seemed so right. Sean’s words tossed and turned, and I wondered what else he had to say. Everyone stayed, letting Avery sleep on the couch while we sat on the patio and talked as though I’d known them my entire life. Lizzie’s friends were like that, inclusive and safe. They were like the cousins or best friend you had that, no matter the time or distance, you picked up from where you left off and it just fit.

“I told Sean about you getting called away someday,” she admitted, her voice muffled with fatigue as she spoke into my forearm. I loved that about her, the bold and unforgiving blunt Lizzie who would speak whatever was on her mind because time really was too short for bullshit.

“Did you tell him you stole my heart?”

“I did,” she mumbled, and I almost couldn’t understand as her lips pressed against my tattooed skin.

“Did you tell him I’ll come back for you?” I felt her body move as she giggled, her response an unintelligible whimper. I grinned into her hair, loving the way she felt in my arms, the way her mouth tickled my skin, the way I was in love with her.

“I love you, Noah.” Now that I understood. My throat tightened and went dry, stifled by my pounding heart. Lizzie rolled over, wiping away the loose curls which fell with her movement, eyes barely open while she stared at me.

Her left hand was heavy on my cheek, her right spread against my heart. “My best friends waited years to be together, and one of them almost died. I don’t want to wait to be with someone. I don’t want to wait that long to be with someone I like, Noah. Maybe it’ll be real love. Maybe we really will be married. Maybe we’ll realize we’re soul mates. I don’t know! But I can’t think of maybes and what-ifs. I can only think of now. If now means this, then I want it. If now means not you, I’m out.”

“I guess that makes me your boyfriend after all,” I told her, my gaze flicking between her eyes while Lizzie nuzzled her head under my chin.

She hummed softly against my collar bone before looking up at me with a hesitant smile, barely squinting her eyes. “Even if you’re called away.”

“Even then,” I assured her, pressing my lips to her forehead.

“It only makes sense. Right? Being boyfriend and

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