s**t.
My fingers paused in her hair and my throat tightened.
This wasn’t supposed to happen. I didn’t do this kind of thing. I wasn’t this kind of guy. This was a Will thing to do. I was Emmett Rhodes, unattached, bachelor for life.
After the election, my life with Avery was a big blank. One big wash of unknown. Would we stay together? Would we break up and only see each other once in a while around town? My chest tightened at the idea of not seeing her almost every day, but the idea of staying married, being married for real sent a streak of panic through me.
I didn’t know what I wanted.
When Will and Nat got together, he knew exactly what he wanted. He had everything planned out, even from eighteen years old. They’d finish college, they’d get married, they’d save for a few years, an
