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Authors: Jasinda Wilder
She unlocks the door to number three-fourteen, shoves it open with her toe and goes straight to the kitchen. She’s not watching to see if I follow her in uninvited, which I do. I close the door behind me, set her guitar case on the floor beneath a light switch, just inside the doorway, next to a small square table stacked with sheet music and guitar books and packets of nylon strings. My case goes on the floor next to the entryway to the open kitchen. I watch her jerk open a cabinet next to the refrigerator, pull out a bottle of Jack, twist the cap off, and toss it on the counter. Her fist shakes, and she tilts the bottle up to her lips and sucks three times, long hard drags straight from the bottle. Damn. She sets the bottle down violently and stands with her head hanging between her arms braced on the counter, one foot stretched out behind her, the other bent close to the counter in a runner’s stretch. She shudders in a breath, straightens, wipes her lips with the back of her hand. I cross the space between us, and I don’t miss the way she tenses as I draw near. She stops breathing as my arm dives over her shoulder, and my hand grabs the bottle. I bring it to my lips, and I match her three long pulls. It burns, a familiar pain.
She turns in place, finally, leaning against the counter edge, staring up at me, eyes wide and searching. She looks like an anime character suddenly, so wide-eyed and full of emotion. I want to kiss her so badly, but I don’t. I don’t even touch her, even though I’m mere inches from her. I hold the bottle, my other hand propped against the counter beside her elbow.
“Why are you here?” she asks. Her voice is a harsh whisper, whiskey-burned.
I let a lopsided smile tilt my lips. “Here in your apartment? Or here in New York?”
“In my apartment. In New York. In my life. Here. Why are you here?”
“I live in New York. I have since I was seventeen. I’m here in your apartment because I followed you from Central Park.”
“But why?”
“Because we weren’t done talking.”
She scrunches up her nose in confusion, a gesture so absurdly adorable my breath stutters in my chest. “Talking? Neither of us said a word.”
“Still a conversation.” I tilt the bottle to my lips and take another pull, feeling it hit my stomach.
“About what?”
“You tell me.”
“I don’t know.” She takes the bottle from me, drinks from it, caps it, and puts it away. “About…that night on the dock?”
I shrug, tip my head side to side. “Sort of, but not really.”
“Then what
did
you think we were talking about?”
“Us.”
Author’s Note
If you’ve read the other books in this series, you’re probably expecting a playlist here. I’m not including one, though, because, honestly, you know the songs. It would be redundant, at this point.
The playlist is the same as in
Falling Into You, Falling Into Us, Falling Under,
and
Falling Away.
The songs are the ones he and Nell sang together, the ones Becca and Jason danced to, the ones Kylie and Oz performed together, the ones Ben and Echo listened to.
You know the songs, so I’m not going to list them here, not this time. Dig up your old copy of
FIY
, play that playlist, and think of Colt.
Because this book is, truly, the end of this series. I hope you loved Colt’s story, riding with him as he became the man Nell would fall in love with, that you all fell in love with.
Jasinda Wilder
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