Finish Line – Caitlyn P Tajon

She described it like a sanctuary. A pause, a promise. Something old that kept its word. My heart pounded so hard with excitement that I thought it might bruise my ribs. I leaned my back against it, grounding myself in the chill of limestone. My palm followed, splayed against the surface just around the corner. It was smooth beneath my fingertips, textured in places.

I could feel the history in it. Could feel the stillness of something that waited, steady and unwavering. The place where we both reached, but didn’t look. Where love could exist in anticipation. Around the corner, I felt him arrive the way you feel the weather change. Pressure shifted, the air turned sweeter, the sound of his footsteps changed the cadence of the earth itself.

I didn’t turn the corner. Neither did he. But then his hand slipped over mine, and my eyes fell closed in relief. Our fingers laced, palm to palm, warmth to warmth, like two arteries finding the same heart. So here we were, right before everything changed, standing together unseen and untouched by the rest of the world. We stayed like that, backs to different walls, fingers laced. The building held our breath and the faint noise of our friends and the hush of late afternoon, punctuated only by the soft click of Eleni’s camera as she captured a moment that felt eternal.

Today, we chose to marry in whispers instead of headlines. And I’d never been happier. “Color?” he murmured, voice low, Scottish sanded down to silk. “Green,” I said. It came out as a hoarse whisper. “Good,” he breathed. “Et toi, mon amour?” And you? “Vert,” he answered in French. A wave of emotions crashed into me. I looked at the water in the distance, and it looked like everything I’d ever been afraid to want—vast, inevitable, too beautiful to believe in.

And yet here he was. Mine. Certain. Constant. A man who chose me over and over again, even when I couldn’t understand why. “I used to think I was hard to love. But you made me impossible to forget.” My laugh cracked into a small, helpless sound, and merde, I think I fell even more in love with him. “You’re going to ruin my makeup.” “I’ll kiss it back on.” We didn’t rush. We never did when it mattered. His thumb moved slowly over the inside of my wrist, tracing the faint vein there, the way he always did when he wanted to soothe me without words.

Like he knew my pulse better than I did. I pressed my spine to the wall until the stone learned the shape of me. On the other side, I imagined his shoulder blades, wide and certain, doing the same. I didn’t know what he was wearing.

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Holy shit, we actually did it. This series was messy and loud and chaotic and tender and holy and painful and alive. It lived in my bones for so long that writing the final words felt like saying goodbye to a part of myself. Thank you for screaming, crying, feral-emoji reacting, falling in love, threatening me for angst, surviving the pain, and celebrating the joy. Cal, Auri, Marco, Ivy, Kimi, Lucy—they’re family now.

Yours and mine. Thank you for loving them as fiercely as I do. Thank you for letting me tell this story. And most of all, thank you for meeting me at the finish line. Eternally grateful, Caitlyn P. Tajon OceanofPDF.com Speed Demons is a high-stakes, emotionally charged romance series that explores intense themes.

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