26

Caleb looked down on Hope and smiled he’d never felt like this about a girl before, until Hope. She was amazing and she’d grown fuck she’d grown a lot on two months into a beautiful young woman they were both sixteen and he’d loved her since he’d met her. He knew he had to make her his and a lesser that she was always safe, though he couldn’t always be there for her. But now he was and he was going to make sure it stopped that way. He knew Joshua was acting strangely and Hope had clarified it, but only time would tell, only with time his old self would push its way pull its way back through and show its ugly head once again. Her eyes fluttered. He continued to smile. ‘Caleb.’

‘Good morning princess and a good morning it is.’

‘Are you high?’

‘No just happy.’ He looked at her smiling. Moving her hair off her face. ‘Just happy that I have you and nothing and I mean nothing will ever come between us again.’

‘Nothing ever did.’