Ready for You (Ready #3)(89)

“Hey, you okay?” Garrett asked, pulling me against his chest.

I snapped another picture of Asher and finally turned to Garrett. “We did this,” I said.

His eyes softened, and he smiled. “Yeah, we did.”

He bent down and placed a tender kiss on my eager lips, and I melted into his touch.

I’d walked away from love and felt my heart shatter. I’d spent eight years bottling up the pain and heartache from those emotional events. I thought I was in control, but when you are running from your life, you’re never the one in control.

I never understood why I ended up driving back down that familiar highway, to the one place I swore I’d never return. Seeing Garrett standing on that street corner had been like a long overdue jolt to my heart. An awakening I so desperately needed. He saved me. He saved me by loving me and showing me that it was okay to once again love myself.

Love is many things. It’s every raw human emotion all rolled up into one messy four letter word. There’s no rule book and definitely no guarantees. But as I stood there in Garrett’s arms, with our friends and family in a house we made a home, I knew that no matter what life threw at us, we’d always get by with just a little bit of love, hope and happiness.