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The way Everly looked at me, the insinuation in her voice, did she mean…?
“A-Are you asking me to move in?” I asked.
Everly shook her head. “Not now,” she reassured me. “But I want to in the future.”
“I see.”
“And I want us to mark each other,” she added, shocking me.
“M-Mark each other!”
“Not now,” she repeated. “But someday as well. I want to replace what’s on your shoulder with a true mark, and I want us to live together. I want us to be a family.”
I simply stared, unable to speak. Everything she was saying felt too good to be true.
“I know it can seem scary.” Everly seemed to misread my reaction, but I didn’t interrupt her. “And you don’t have to answer me now. But I really do want it. I want you.”
Everly was painting a future I could never have imagined. It scared the
