Only You (Second Chances Series Book 1)

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So the surprise was a truffle making class and it was the most fun I've had in a long time. We laughed, drank wine and made delicious treats. It was perfect. Afterwards, we went back to Olivers and went for a late night swim.

I'm floating on my back staring up at the clear night sky when Ollie speaks.

"Lily."

"Yes Oliver?"

"Move in with me."

I'm so startled by his words that I start to flail around and get water up my nose. I start coughing and suddenly Oliver's holding on to me. I rap my legs around his waist and wipe the water from my face.

He pushes my hair behind me ears as he chuckles and say, "Was that a yes?"

"Ollie, we just started seeing each other again. Don't you think its a little soon?"

"No. I don't. Lily, we wasted seven years apart from each other, I don't want to waste another minute. I love you and you love me, right?"

"More than anything." He kisses me then. Long and hard.

"Then move in with me, please."

I nod my head.

He cups the side of my face as a huge smile spreads across his face. "Yes?"

"Yes, Oliver James Scott, I will move in with you."

He kisses me again and this time he doesn't stop. His hands are all over me and within minutes we're both naked and he's inside me. We moved over to the steps of the pool and I'm straddling him. He has his hand in my hair at the back of neck so he can make me look him right in the eye as he says, "Thank you Lily Michaels, you have made me so incredibly happy. Promise me you'll never leave me again."

"Ollie, I promise. I love you."

"I love you, Lily." And with that we both find our release.

The next day we work on the house for a little while. We decided that if I'm moving in Ollie can no longer pay me to work on what will also be my home. I agree to let him pay me for they time I've already spent on it but that's it. From here on out we'll just work on it together on nights and weekends. Things are coming along nicely and now that I know I'll be moving in I can have more of a say and incorporate things I already have at my house. We figure I'll officially move in in a couple of weeks, since we're both busy with work and the gala is coming up. Plus I still have to put my house on the market and pack everything. Unofficially, we'll spend as much time together as we possibly can either at his house or mine.

We're working on the living room when Ollie's phone rings.

"Hi, mom."

I go to walk in the other room to grab something but he puts his arm around my waist.

"Yes she's right here. Let me ask her."

He hits mute on the phone.

"Mom wants to know if you still want to join us for dinner tonight?"

"Have you told them anything about me, about us and what happened?"

"Of course not. I would never say anything without talking to you first."

"Well as much as I hate the idea of them all looking at me with sad eyes, I hate the idea of them thinking I'm just some wishy-washy bitch who hurt you for no reason even more. So I think you should tell them."

He unmutes the phone, "Mom, let me call you right back." I hear her say okay and he hangs up.

"Come here." He pulls me over to the couch and pulls me down on his lap. "Lily, my family would never think bad of you. They all love you. And they know you make me happy and to them that's all that matters.They would never judge you. If you don't want them to know right now then they don't have to know. It's totally your call. Now if we do tell them, I can't guarantee that there won't be sad eyes. But honey, that wouldn't be out of pity. It would be because they genuinely care about you and they would be sad. Sad that those horrible things happened to you. Just like I'm sad about it. Incredibly sad. But honey I don't pity you one bit. In fact I'm in awe of you. You are so unbelievably strong and I admire the hell out of you."