No Matter What (159 page)

She smiled back, looking up into his dark eyes.
 
“Yeah.
 
We’re going to do this.
 
Again.”

They both laughed, something they’d done a lot of since the accident. Laughing.
 

“You know I love you, don’t you?” JJ said, suddenly getting serious.

“Hey, of course I do, baby.”
 
She moved closer to him, reaching up to gently stroke his cheek.
 
“Of course I do.”
 
She ran her fingertips slowly over his perfect jaw line, touching his mouth before kissing him gently.

“I nearly lost you,
India
.
 
I can’t forget that.
 
I nearly lost you ...”

“But you didn’t, did you?”
 
She felt his arms hold her tight and she couldn’t take her eyes off him.
 
She didn’t want to.
 
She just wanted to look at him forever.
 
“You didn’t lose me.
 
I’m here, Joe, and I love you too, baby.
 
God help me, I love you so much.”

He smiled, his hands resting in the small of her back, loving the feel of her against him.
 
She’d walked into his life and turned his world upside down and he was always going to be grateful for that.
 
They had the best life together, but he still wanted to make it better.

“Do you think we’re gonna get it right this time?” he asked, his eyes meeting hers.

She smiled, wrinkling up her nose.
 
“Yeah.
 
I think we might just manage that.”

And she had no doubt about that at all.
 
They’d learnt valuable lessons too important to forget.
 
Everyone had.
 
Her family, her friends, they’d all learnt lessons.

She looked at him again.
 
JJ Foster.
 
The man she loved.
 
This was just the beginning for them, the beginning of a whole new future.
 
For all of them.
 
She really felt that.
 
They’d all come such a long way, been through so much, but there were new adventures waiting out there.
 
For everyone.

“We’re gonna be ok now, aren’t we?” he whispered, still holding her close.

She was still looking into his beautiful eyes, each second that passed making her fall in love with him more, making her realise that what she’d given up may just be worth it after all.
 
Because she really needed it to be worth it.

“Yeah,” she smiled, stroking his face with her fingertips.
 
“We’re going to be just fine, Joe.
 
All of us.
 
We’re going to be just fine.”

And as she closed her eyes, his mouth touching hers in a beautiful, slow kiss, she knew she could stay like this forever, in his arms, just kissing him.
 
But a whole new crazy journey was beginning for all of them, right here, right now.
 
And she was more than ready for the ride.

THE END.

ALSO BY MICHELLE BETHAM

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