Keeping 13: Boys of Tommen #2

"I love you," he went right ahead and rocked my world by saying again. "Present tense – as in I mean it now. And maybe I shouldn't be saying that – maybe I'm fucking everything up by telling you that when you're in the middle of your family stuff, but it's the truth." He shrugged helplessly. "I'm in love with you. I think I've been that way for a while now – a long fucking while, if we're being totally honest." Exhaling shakily, he added, "And that scares the shit out of me worse than the thought of not making the U20's. You scare me more than anyone I've ever come up against on a pitch."

"Absolutely," he replied. "I want you."
Gibsie snickered. "Boom, boom."
"Here," Johnny quickly amended, casting a warning glare in Gibsie's direction.

I c-can't forget and I won't ever forgive

"Joey's irrelevant in this," Darren muttered, pinching his temples. "He's over eighteen."
"That doesn’t make him irrelevant," I snapped, glaring at my oldest brother. "He's the most relevant thing in our lives, Darren

"Who's hurting you, baby? I'll fix it."
"It's a secret."
"I won't tell."
"My father."

keeping 13," she told me. "So come home

His hand shot out then, moving straight to her stomach.

Aoife as she sat down on the side of the bed he was facing. "My Joey," she whispered, cupping his cheek in her hand. "My baby."

A shudder rolled through him and he tightened his hold on the pillow, feet twitching sporadically.

Leaning her face close to his, she gently nuzzled him with her nose. "Come on back to me," she coaxed, whispering in his ear as she smoothed her hand over his hair and then his cheek and jaw. "Because I'm not giving you up."

Something happened with Gerard."

-swooned before adding, "It's like a Great Dane and a Chihuahua trying to mate, but they somehow make it work