CHAPTER 80

A hush fell over the crowd as Peyton stood and looked at Finn. She couldn’t believe this was actually happening. She was willingly putting herself in the spotlight for this man even after her recent brush with fame had been so disastrous. People were looking at them, smartphones raised capturing every single moment. She should be running in the opposite direction, but she wasn’t. She was here, ready to face him. Ready to accept what he was offering, regardless of the people standing around and watching.

On the cab ride over she had pulled up the blog he had written and read every single word. He had laid himself bare before her and she recognised the man she had fallen in love with in his words. Then she rewatched the video of him appealing to her to meet him in Federation Square. Her heart yearned to be with him. It felt like a physical pull inside her and she had barely restrained herself from urging the cab driver to go faster.

But it hadn’t been the words he wrote in the