The Night We Met (Healing in Cincy Book 1) by Elleese Black

Author:Elleese Black [Black, Elleese]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-04-19T00:00:00+00:00

December 2013

My last final of the semester is over. Between sorority events, dating Liam, supporting him with baseball, and being in the Arts Building non-stop; I’ve barely had a chance to breathe before something else needed my attention. But now, winter break is here and we get a full month to rest before gearing up for our final semester.

I don’t think it will hit me that I’m on track to graduate, until I’ve walked across the stage. But I have five months before that day is set to make its appearance. For now, I’m focusing on the present.

A knock on my door pulls my attention to it. And the hunk of muscle in the doorway. Throwing my dress on my bed, I walk over to Liam.

“Hi,” I wrap my arms around him to greet him with a kiss.

I go to pull away, but his hand on my lower back stops me. His gaze tracks over my face. Sending my heart into my throat. We’ve been together since the night of the party. Together being a tame word. We’ve been inseparable. Almost like when we were kids. But this is so much more. I look into his beautiful blue eyes and see the boy I knew turned into the man I love.

Liam and I stayed holed up in his room that first weekend. Getting food and condoms delivered instead of leaving the cocoon of his bed. When I went back to the sorority house that Sunday night, the questions were one after the other until I spilled the beans. Sarah almost burst my eardrums when she found out we were dating. Then proceeded to say “I told you so.”

Being with Liam has been so easy. I put in the work to heal my own broken heart. But as the days went on, he helped repair the broken that I couldn’t fix. We haven’t told each other those three words yet. I’m not sure if it’s him respecting the speed in which we’ve gone in our relationship or if he's as scared as I am to say the words.

Sure, we’ve said them in our friendship. But saying ‘I love you’ to a friend is much different from saying those to the person you’re dating. It’s that next big step in your relationship.

“Hi, beautiful,” Liam places a kiss to the tip of my nose before letting me get back to packing.

We’re about to make the long drive back home. Thanksgiving was our first long-distance drive together which is surprising as we used to take trips together all of the time. The amount of times I looked over at him driving almost drove me to having him stopping the car. As hot as he is when he plays baseball, nothing prepared me for watching him drive us home.

I pick up my discarded dress as Liam takes a seat at my desk. “Are you all packed?”

“Yep. The car is all gassed up too. Snacks and Red Bulls are in the cooler, as well as a blanket for you.

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