Only and Forever by Chloe Liese EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Chloe Liese
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Viggo
Playlist: “Everybody’s Lonely,” Jukebox The Ghost
If there’s one thing you should know about me, it’s that I love a happy
ending. That butterflies-in-your-stomach, rush-of-serotonin, breathless,
euphoric, wrapped-up-in-a-bow happy ending. The last page of a romance
novel as my eyes dance across The End. A shorefront view of the sunset,
toes wedged in the sand, watching fading light spill glorious gold across
cool blue waves, the grand finale to the perfect beach day. The first bite of
homemade pastry, finally perfected after countless recipe tweaks.
And, of
course, most of all, my family, side by side with their happily ever afters,
crammed together at the long, worn wood table in our home away from
home nestled in the woods of Washington State, the A-frame.
My gaze drifts around the room, the sound of everyone’s rowdy voices
and laughter sweetening the bittersweet. I’m surrounded by happy endings
—my six siblings, their partners, their children, my still-so-in-love parents
—and, given my love of happy endings, I should be fully, utterly content,
too.
But I’m not.
Because I’m still waiting for my happy ending. Irony of ironies, salt in
the wound, unlike these lucky ducks, who, in six different ways,
serendipitously tripped and fell, kicking and screaming, into meeting their
perfect match, I’ve been searching for mine. And I’m the only one who
hasn’t found them yet.
“Viggo!” Ziggy, my baby sister, the youngest in the Bergman brood,
calls my name from across the table, wide smile, freckles, and bright green
eyes, flipping her long red braid over her shoulder. “Scrabble doesn’t have
to be so serious. Play already.”
I snap out of my daydreaming and peer at the Scrabble board, tugging
down my ball cap to hide my eyes. I don’t like being caught in maudlin
thoughts.
“ ‘Scrabble doesn’t have to be so serious.’ ” Ziggy’s boyfriend, Seb, tips
his head her way. “Did you really just say that? The woman who punched
my thigh when I built a word off of the letter u and compromised her plans
for her q?”
Ziggy blushes bright red, narrowing her eyes at Seb. “That’s different.”
His tongue pokes his cheek. “How so, Sigrid?”
I still can’t believe she lets someone call her by her full name. Then
again, if anyone could get away with it, it’s Seb.
“You,” she says breezily, plucking a cracker off the plate of snacks,
“looked at my tiles. You cheated.”
Seb grins. “Now, why would I ever do that?”
“Because you live to fire me up and suffer the consequences.”
He sighs dreamily. “And what glorious consequences they are.”
“Ew,” I say miserably. “Stop with the double entendres— Oh, hell yes.”
Inspiration having struck, I lean in and spell out entendre.
Everyone groans around the table.
“With that double word square,” I tell my sister, “I’ll take eighteen
points.”
Ziggy grumbles as she writes down the score. Seb takes the opportunity
to whisper something in her ear that puts a smile on her face.
I avert my eyes and try not to slip right back into my mope, but it’s hard.
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