15-05-2021-052358It-Ends-with-Us

“Do you think you’ll ever want to leave Boston?”
He shakes his head. “No. Never. Everything is better here,
remember?”
His answers give me the reassurance I need. I smile up at him.
“Okay. I’m ready.”
He pulls me tight against him and I laugh. With everything that has
happened since the day he came into my life, I never expected this
outcome. I’ve hoped for it a lot, but until now I wasn’t sure if it would
ever happen.
I close my eyes when I feel his lips meet the spot on my collarbone.
He presses a gentle kiss there and it feels just like the first time he
kissed me there all those years ago. He brings his mouth to my ear,
and in a whisper, he says, “You can stop swimming now, Lily. We finally
reached the shore.”