I Need You: HarperImpulse New Adult Romance

mind it; she looks trust- worthy.”
“Billy! My clothes!” How

“You better look after my big brother…”
“Oh I will,” Lindy answered, looking up at me. “He is gonna get back all the love he gives… and I owe him years of it. I’m in some deep debt

The water ran over my head in rivers––because I do love you. I LOVE YOU…
I LOVE YOU.
Shit.
Lindy had really said that.
A huge great, fat smile parted my lips.
I laughed out loud.
She’d said it. I’d sensed it, but who knew with Lindy…?
She’d said it!
Wow.
The words had exploded in my chest, like a firework shooting off.
After all this time… After years… The girl I loved––loved me!
As my hands rubbed the shampoo into my hair, the leather bracelet slid around on my wrist. The bracelet she’d given me when she was fifteen that I’d never taken off. Faith paid off. I’d always known what she knew now. That we needed each other… We were soul mates

I gripped his hand. “When you ask me to marry you, Billy, I am gonna say yes. I will be so happy. But you are such a good guy, because you’re right, it’s too soon. I couldn’t be happy if we got married now. But when it’s the right time, I am gonna walk up the aisle with a beaming smile.” My gaze caught and held his. “But for now, yes, I do want to get a place together, that is just what I need. Thank you. I would love to live with you and build a home together, a place for us

then why don’t we just get a place together…?”

Then I’ve got an idea…”
“What?”
He twisted in his seat, his leg hooking up over the gear shift and he gripped my hand. “One day, Lindy, I’m gonna get down on one knee and look up into your eyes and ask you to marry me, and when I say it, I’m gonna make it a magical moment you are not gonna forget. You’ll treasure it––we’ll treasure it––for the rest of our lives, and we’ll tell our kids all about it. But that day, and that moment, isn’t now. I know you’re not ready. But until it’s the right time, and the right day, and you’ve healed properly from everything you’ve been through,

“I love you.” The words burst out of my throat.
Freeing my belt, I leaned forward to hug him. “Oh Billy, I really do. I have for ages, but there has never seemed a right time to say it, and I give up, because there will never be a right time.”
His fingers ran over my hair. “You don’t have to say it, sweetheart.”
I sat back. “But I want to, because I do. I LOVE YOU.”
He laughed. “Have you been drinking?”
“No

“Do you want me to sleep over tonight, or would you rather be alone with your dad?”
Billy’s dark-blue eyes shone with understanding––and love. “I think he needs me tonight. We agreed we’d sit up and watch some old home movies, and drink, and say our personal farewell to her like that.”
“She’s not gone, Lind. If she’s still in your head and your heart, she’s still alive… Just without pain.”
He said the sweetest things. I smiled. I hadn’t smiled all day. “I know.” She was with me. She’d said she’d watch over me as an angel, and I felt her. I had done since about six hours after she’d died. It was truly like her spirit hovered in the air I breathed––watching, caring––loving––and smiling at Billy’s tenderness

love you.Those words had echoed in my head a ton of times since the day Mom had died, but I still hadn’t said them aloud, it didn’t seem right to say them now. He’d think it was just because of everything that had been going on and how good he’d been to me. I wanted him to know when I said them that it was just about him.

I love you.Those words had echoed in my head a ton of times since the day Mom had died, but I still hadn’t said them aloud, it didn’t seem right to say them now. He’d think it was just because of everything that had been going on and how good he’d been to me. I wanted him to know when I said them that it was just about him