“Good Lord, do you see the way that boy is looking at you?” Ellie pushed my shoulder back.
My heart started racing. When he walked up to me, he held out his hand. I reached for it, and the moment I touched him, I sucked in a breath of air as he pulled me into him. He backed us up onto the dance floor, and we started to dance.
“Breathe, princess,” he whispered.
I grabbed on to his shirt and just held him as tightly as I could. Oh god, I miss his touch so much.
He leaned into me and put his mouth right next to my ear. “You’re the most beautiful thing I’ve ever laid eyes on. ”
I slowly felt my legs going out from under me.
He held on to me tighter, and then he laughed. “I can’t take credit for that one. Gunner told me to tell you that!”
I pulled back and smiled as his eyes captured mine.
I love him so much it hurts.
He took the back of his hand and ran it down my face. “So beautiful. ”
When he leaned down and kissed me, I poured as much love into that kiss as I could. I needed to show him that he was mine, and I’d wait an eternity for him.
He bit my lower lip before leaning back slightly. “I love you, Heather. ”
“I love you more,” I barely whispered.
He laughed. “I love you more times infinity!”
I pulled back and looked at him. “What?”
“I love you more times infinity,” he said again as he looked at me with that smile.
When I grabbed his shirt, his smile faded.
“What’s wrong?”
“You said that to me the last night we made love. We made love in the lounge chair right over there, and you said that to me, Josh. We laughed about it, and then we said we were going to get infinity tattoos on our wrists. ”
His face went white as a ghost. “Heather, I thought that was just a dream!”
“You remember that?”
He shook his head, and when he looked at me, he had tears in his eyes.
Oh. My. God. Is he starting to remember things?
“Yesterday, when I came out here…I saw you and me in one of these chairs, but I thought I was just daydreaming about you. So, you’re telling me that was a memory?”
I wanted to scream out, Yes, it’s a memory! Instead, I just smiled at him. “That was a memory indeed, baby. ”
The smile that spread across his face made me giggle.
“By a river…you were reading a book, lying on a blanket—”
“That was the first time we ever made love. It was on Jeff and Ari’s property, next to the Llano River. It was the best day of my life. ”
Grabbing the sides of my face, he kissed me. He kissed me as if he were never going to kiss me again.
“Can I leave my own party?” he said against my lips.