I NEED YOU WITH ME

VERONICA’S POV

They said absence made the heart grow fonder, and I completely understood why. In the years since I walked out of Rico’s life, a part of me had missed him desperately. But as he flexed his controlling and uber-domineering muscles, I began to remember why I’d never contacted him in so many years. Any why my heart had skipped a beat when I’d received those flowers from him earlier today.

Rico was never going to just take me out to dinner and drop me back at home after everything we’d been through together. No.

As I watched the hard set of his jaw, I realized that he was never going to leave me alone.

“What do you mean by ‘I’m moving in with you’,” I’d asked with a hint of hysterical laughter in my voice after he made his proclamation.

He continued to hold my gaze. “I bought your building this morning. As soon as you left, the movers started packing your things and taking them to Lalanita’s house.”