Ella Maise

take a rain check

Life always moved on whether you chose to move along with it or stay put and let it happen all around you, but I didn’t want to do it without her.

After locking everything up, I turned to him and caught him looking at my ass.

When I couldn’t keep quiet anymore, I stopped thinking and placed my hand on her leg, my thumb and first finger making contact with her bare skin.

“I risked losing you to have a shot at you, Rose. I’d do it again in a heartbeat.”

You’re the most precious thing in the world to me, Rose.”

“You look beautiful,”

Tilting my head back up, I met his gaze and slowly, uncertainly placed my hand in his open palm for the first time since the ceremony. His hand was warm as he gently closed his fingers around mine. And my heart…my heart was having some issues.

The number of times Jack Hawthorne smiled: zilch.

I didn’t need to go to her coffee shop every day just because she was my wife or because I enjoyed looking at her. I made a good enough coffee myself.

and because of that—because of her—I wasn’t sure how long I would be able to keep up my part of the charade