Chapter 349

He checked the bedroom and noticed her overnight bag was gone. Had she left? They still had one more night of their fantasy weekend and Declan wanted to spend it with her telling her his new plan. The plan where they actually dated for real. The plan where she really was his girlfriend and not just a decoy to fool his mother. The plan where he was really her significant other and not just some replacement for the man who had ditched her at the reunion. The more he thought about it, the more he wanted the real thing with her. He didn’t know how it happened but he had begun to fall for her. He’d always thought falling in love would be some big thunderclap moment, not this slow, silky glide into a new reality. He had always expected it to be terrifying and that he would feel hemmed in and trapped. But that’s not what he felt at all. The more he thought about it, her, them, the more it felt right. It sat in his heart as a new thing, but not as something that was out of place. Weirdly, it f