Chapter 33

“Scott told me he loves me. Do you love me, too?” I ask, my eyes begging her to say yes. I’ve never felt this feeling before. The free fall my heart does every time I’m in their presence is something I’ve come to relish in. All of the drama to come would be worth it for this. My lost friendship would be worth it if I know they wouldn’t turn their back on me and the kids.

“I do, Claire. So freaking much. It might have happened when we saw you again with those gorgeous babies, it might have have happened the first time you step foot in our house or the first night I spent here with you just us two, or it might have happened yesterday when it hits me all at once and I confessed to Scott. But I love you so much,” ivy says, looking at me with all the love in the world. Tears fill my eyes, but I force them not to fall.

“Baby I” she cut me off smashing her lips against mine, when I finally made up my mind to tell her how I also feel. The kiss starts off slow, calculated, then turn messy an