CHAPTER 81

He kissed her then and everything else just faded away. It didn’t matter that several hundred people were filming the very private moment on their smartphones. It didn’t matter that it would be all over social media within minutes. It didn’t matter that there was a near-deafening roar of the crowd cheering for them. She didn’t even care about the probable media fallout and being stalked by the paparazzi again. None of it mattered because Finn was holding her in his arms and kissing her and her world finally felt like it had been righted and was now spinning on its correct axis.

Finn lifted his head to hear the cheers and applause of the gathered crowd. He had completely forgotten that they had an audience and he held Peyton just a little bit closer to try and protect her from the scrutiny of the hundreds of people who had gathered. Maybe doing this in such a public way hadn’t been the smartest idea, especially when all he wanted to do right now was bury himself inside Peyton and