Chapter 26 - Holden

I felt like I was on top of the world this morning. Mayson and I had spent the entire weekend together. There was so much that we needed to learn about each other. We were not those same teenagers anymore. We had lived quite a bit in the years apart. It is what made us who we are now. I was not looking forward to hearing about any of the past relationships Mayson has had. I did not want to even imagine another man’s hands on her body. Or another man buried inside of what is rightfully mine. When I make love to her for the first time, every other man before me will no longer exist.

I have agreed to take it slow with Mayson. She does not want to rebuild what we had but use that as a foundation for something even better. I realize I am more in love with her today than I was when we were eighteen. I have dated quite a bit and was a man whore like Seth was in college. Amelia was a year behind us in school so Seth was a wild and free man when we went away to school. I followed that same p