I grinned. “Most likely, yes.”
Lila Kate closed the small distance between us and put her hands on my chest gently this time. “That doesn’t leave me any choice then does it.”
“Are you going to get a restraining order?” I teased.
She smiled then. The big beautiful smile that had been making my knees weak for as long as I could remember. “That’s an option,” she replied. “But I think I’ll go with option number two.”
“And that is?” I asked.
She stood on her tiptoes and pressed a kiss to my jawline. “To love you the rest of my life.”
I held her face in my hands and stared down at the woman who would always be what made me whole. She was my center. Loving her had destroyed me. The old me was gone. The careless, selfish man I’d been was no longer there. I wanted to be good enough for her. And I would be. I would be the kind of man my father was. My life had purpose.
All because of Lila.