Mania (Fever Dreams Collection #1)

EPILOGUE

Hazel

Forty years later …

“Beautiful evening we’re having aren’t we, Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose?”

The voice pulls me out of my thoughts.

“If you don’t mind the heat,” Maeve responds to the teenager standing on the balcony next to ours. He is bare-chested, only wearing swim trunks with a towel wrapped around his neck. Leaning his hands against the guardrail, his attention is somewhere in the distance.

Then he smiles, blue eyes sparkling as he looks over to us. “Perfect time for a swim then,” he says.

I sneak a glance at Maeve sitting in the chair next to mine.

Breathtaking as ever.

She hasn’t changed since the day she walked into my life and brought me to my knees.

She finds my gaze and smiles. It’s peaceful, and so full of love that my heart squeezes with eternal adoration. I bring her hand to my lips and press a kiss on her warm skin before looking back at the kid. “Perfect time for a swim,” I repeat.