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“You know I didn’t just lose a boyfriend.” She was visibly getting upset. “I lost you as my best friend too. Do you understand how hard that was for me?” In seconds, she couldn’t control the tears as they slid down the sides of her face.
I kissed them away, whispering, “I’m sorry, beauty. I’m so fucking sorry.”
“I thought… I don’t know… It just didn’t feel like it was the end of us. Why would you make me fall in love with you if you were going to choose your career over me?”
I shook my head. “The only thing I have for you is my profound regret of what could have been if I had fought for you.”
“Then why didn’t you?”
I brushed the hair away from her eyes, needing to look into them so she could see the sincerity in my expression. The crazy part about Capri was that she truly had no concept of how much she governed my heart, and she didn’t have to try.
It was just there.
It came so natural to her. Luring me in with a look…
A smile.
A slight movement in her body.
She was captivating.
A magnetic pull that forced you in without even realizing it. At that moment, as much as I tried to ignore the thoughts looming, I couldn’t. I watched how she was hurt, crying over what could have been, and it was excruciating to watch her break down like this.
She was conflicting.
Controlling my thoughts, my actions, my decisions.
Consuming every last part of me.
Especially with just how much I wanted her to be my wife.
“You’re home to me.” I kissed more tears away, sliding my lips against her soft skin. “You’ve always been home to me.”
She didn’t say a word, but she didn’t have to.
Her eyes spoke for themselves. They always did for me. We shared this profound connection, and it didn’t matter how much time we lost. It was still there.
She took a deep breath, exhaling, “Did you miss me?”
“Every minute of every day.”
Her cautious expression met mine.
“I struggled with it, though.”
“With missing me?”
“Mm-hmm.”
“Why?”
“Because I couldn’t change the distance between us, and in the end, it ruined us.”
Her eyes held nothing but genuineness and confusion, suddenly making the air so damn thick between us. Her vulnerability didn’t stop me from taking in the glow of her smooth, creamy skin, or the way her hair kept falling around her face, or the rosy flush of her cheeks from my words.
There was something in the way she regarded me…
The concern.
