Always Yours

"Sometimes what you want is right in front of you. All you have to do is open your eyes and see it." – Meg Cabot


When he was little, Bella was the perfect girl. She'd hide her braids under a baseball cap, put on a t-shirt, cut-off jeans, and beat-up Chuck Taylors and hit home-runs in the park. She could spit and she could fight and she wasn't afraid and she never cried.

And she was his. He always thought of her that way — his to trust, his to protect.

Lying beside her now as she cries over Jake makes him feel like that isn't true…like maybe he's been wrong all these years…that he doesn't know her anymore and she isn't his at all.