by Ivy Carter
“Hell yeah. I support this.”
We blow each other kisses over the phone and hang up.
Smith gets his coffee pot going and turns to me, leaning against his kitchen counter. “Everything okay?”
“Yeah, I guess. I just…don’t know how I feel about calling my parents right now, to be honest.”
He looks at me without judgment, but his face is serious. “Call them. I’d give anything in the world to call my dad right now and tell him about you. He’d love you, you know.”
The words pinch my heart with guilt. Fuck. “That was insensitive of me. I’m sorry.”
He gives me a small smile and rubs the back of my neck. “I know you weren’t trying to be. But I think if you talk to them, you’ll feel better. Just something to think about.”
“Will you stay here while I call them?”
“There’s nowhere else on the fucking planet I’d rather be than by your side.”
The warmth in his voice helps me gather my strength. I can do this. I suck in a slow breath, exhale. Turn to rest once again against the solidness of his chest. My fiancé. Soon to be my husband.
The most amazing and complicated man I’ve ever met.
I dial my mom’s number, and she picks up after a couple of rings. “Hello?” I hear the tentativeness in her voice, tinged with hope. It’s been so long since I’ve heard her voice that I feel a bunch of emotions slam into me hard.
My stomach twists in a hard knot, and I steady myself. Smith squeezes my shoulders. “Mom? Hi. It’s me. And I have some news for you.”
And then I start telling her our story, and I’m smiling, because finally it’s not just “I” anymore—it’s “we.” Smith and Aubrey.
Forever.
THE END OF SMITH (THE BECKETT BOYS, BOOK ONE)
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