Nic's Devotion: An Endless Series: Book One

by Sara Hess

  “You think he should have chosen your grandmother over you?” Nic said sounding indignant on my behalf.

  “He loved her, she was his wife. She’d had two heart attacks already and he didn’t want to lose her. If he would have chosen me and she’d had another attack, dying, both of us would have been burdened with guilt and that wouldn’t have done anything good for our relationship.”

  “Are you mad or upset that he didn’t allow you to get to know him during his illness?” Nic asked. “Because it sounds a lot like something you would do, so I wouldn’t hold it too much against him.” He released a small huff after that remark.

  A small smile curved my lips. He knew me. But it was something unselfish he would have done as well. “Those were my first thoughts. I would have loved to get to know him again. The things I remember of him were good, and the letter reinforces those memories. My second thought, however, was what if we had reconnected? My path in life would have changed and I might have never met you. That thought is absolutely abhorrent to me. It helps me to understand my grandfather’s choice better. If I had to choose between you or him…I think I would choose you, but I’m glad I didn’t have to.”

  Nic kissed the top of my head. “I’m glad you never had to choose either, even though I wished you would have had each other. From his words he sounds like an exceptional person, strong just like you are. And hell, I’m glad I don’t have to worry about him haunting me, because I will always be totally devoted to you.”

  I sniffed wiping my face clean of tears and other stuff before facing him. His green eyes overflowed with love and my heart clenched in wonder at seeing it. “I feel the same way.”

  We kissed softly and then I rested my head on his shoulder. We sat that way for a couple minutes.

  “So I guess you got out of me buying you a car since your grandfather’s given you one.” Nic commented. “You’re lucky, because I would have eventually gotten my way.”

  I laughed shaking my head. “God, your ego is massive. Guess what? Now I can start threatening to buy you stuff all the time. I’m going to inundate you with gifts, just you wait.”

  “Psst,” Nic scoffed. “You’d run out way before me.”

  I frowned. I’d never asked Nic about the amount of his trust fund because I really hadn’t cared about it, only that he would have been deprived of something that was his. I looked up and narrowed my eyes. “Just how much is your trust fund?”

  Nic rolled his eyes up to the ceiling and blew out a deep breath. There was a definite curl to the corner of his mouth. “A little more than yours,” was all he said.

  Mine was around six hundred thousand which blew my mind. I can’t believe grandfather had left that all to me. If Nic had a little more… “So, like a million.” I gasped in disbelief. Wow!

  Nic sighed and rolled his eyes the other way. His lip was still curled. “A lit-tle more.” He said emphasizing the ‘little’. Somehow I don’t think his little was really little at all.

  “Oh. My. God. It’s not little at all. It’s huge, is it?” I gasped in amazed dismay. I was dating a possible multi-millionaire.

  “That’s what they all say.” Nic stated proudly wiggling his hips under mine.

  I gaped at him, and his innuendo, before busting out laughing.

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