Chapter 23
How the hell was I supposed to respond to that? Everything I was telling myself, everything I worried about, was erased with just a few words from his beautiful lips. He told me the words I never thought I’d hear from him. The words I ached for but never let myself believe he would say.
And still in the back of my mind I doubted those words. I still wondered if he would leave me as soon as someone better looking came along. Would he check out hot women in bikinis at the beach and wish he’d waited for one of them instead of for me.
Would he stop loving me if I got bigger?
As if he could read my thoughts, he knelt in front of me and took my hands. “Mandy, you’re it for me. Honey, I know you’ve worried about me, but I’ve had skinny girls and I’ve had you. Every single time I wa
