Page 40 of Destined for Him

That she’s mine.

But she’s too young to be mine.

“I made a mistake last night. I shouldn’t have…taken advantage of you like that. I got swept up in the heat of the moment.”

Shelby stares at me, and for a second, I wonder if she’s going to cut my dick off, she’s that pissed.

“A mistake.”

I nod, wishing I could tell her she’s not the mistake, but what we did was.

I’m forty-fucking-one!

“You know, what we did meant the age difference didn’t matter,” Shelby says, her eyes softening. “Because you didn’tjustfuck me. I thought you felt something for me.” She shakes her head in disbelief. “What makes it wrong is you making it seem seedy and cheap.”

Headlights fill the room from the drive, and I stiffen.

“You’ll never be happy; you know that?” Shelby moves over to the door, slipping her heels into one hand so she can tug it open. “Because you’re too fucking scared.”

She doesn’t look back when she leaves, slamming the door behind her.

There’s the sound of a car door shutting not long after, and the engine fades as the car steals away, the one thing that’s made me feel happy in so long.

This is so fucked up.

But I know I’m right. Shelby and I wouldn’t work.

I’d feel like a pervert just like I do now, and I would forever imagine Laura judging me.

It was one thing to fuck a random woman; it was another to fuck your daughter’s best friend. And I know Griffin has his happily ever after with Ivy, who is also much younger than him, but he doesn’t feel like I do.

Wrong.

Everything about Shelby drives me crazy, hence why I try to stay away from her.

The way she smells, smiles, and laughs. I can’t even think of her in the bedroom because I’ll probably throw myself off a cliff.

She wants forever.

Don’t you?

Of course, I do.

I want forever with her too.

But I’m a possessive shit with more issues than she deserves. And twenty years…it may not have mattered last night when I was fucking her, but it should’ve.

Most men wouldn’t care that much, I know. But I do.

Shelby deserves better than me.

Let it go, Kevin.

My wife’s voice soothes me, and I bow my head in shame.

“I’m sorry, Laura. So fucking sorry.”

I’d fucked women since Laura, and I had never heard her voice. Not once had I apologized.

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