Page 95 of Love Unspoken

NO ORDINARY LOVE

A SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE

I broke her heart, but I will win her back. Because mine is...No Ordinary Love.

Lucas Covington had everything: Charleston's old money, a successful family business, and Amara—the strong, brilliant professor who turned his world upside down.

One careless conversation destroys it all.

When Amara overhears Lucas admitting he's still torn about his recently single ex and not sure if he loves her, she walks out, leaving behind the life they were building and the man too blind to see what he had.

As Lucas tumbles back into a toxic relationship with his high school sweetheart, he realizes just how badly he screwed up. Amara was the woman he needed, the one who made him feel alive. The one he loves.

Unable to heal her broken heart, Amara decides to leave Charleston. When Lucas finds out, he pulls every string he can, forcing her to stay in the city under the guise of a high-profile consultancy gig.

Now, with Amara back in his orbit but not in his arms, Lucas has to fight harder than ever to win her back. But with his ex-girlfriend digging her claws in and his own mother backing her, it's a battle he might not survive.

It's going to take a hell of a lot of groveling and facing his darkest truths to prove to Amara that his love is no ordinary thing.

ONE

AMARA

"You've only been with Amara for two years, and you just started living together; that's hardly a long time, Lucas. You and Kath were together for five. She made a mistake, but now she's back, and she's sorry," I heard Patsy Covington say.

I put my hand on the wall outside Lucas's mother's living room, waiting to hear Lucas's response, aware that I was afraid to hear it.

"I'm with Amara, Mama, so it doesn't matter if Kath is single or not."

Did Lucas's voice sound hollow, regretful? My heart began to beat fast.

"Just answer me this. Do you still love Kath?"

Silence.

"Yes. I do. I think I always will," Lucas replied, and it broke my heart. "Amara and I are good together. We just moved in⁠—"

"But do you love her?" Patsy persisted.

I should say something, I thought. I should let Lucas know I was here so I wouldn't have to hear him say what I knew he would. In all the time we'd been together, he'd never told me he loved me. Even when I said it, he told me he was so grateful and lucky to have me in his life, but he never gave me the three words, and now he was never going to. I was certain of that. That certainty only solidified when he softly said, "I don't know, Mama."

The words ran through me like a bullet ripping my flesh apart, and the destructive path it took continued because Lucas wasn't done.

"I think I do, but it's just…. What Amara and I have is different from what I had with Kath. That was all-consuming."

All-consuming?

"And what's it with Amara?" Patsy asks.

"Comfortable."

Like a pair of old shoes?

"Son, you know what you have to do."

I guess I also now knew what I had to do. Didn't I? Had I suspected this? Yes. But then, I couldn't have imagined this handsome, gorgeous man wanting anything to do with a boring, nerdy professor like me. I was nothing like Kath. She was blonde, built, beautiful. I was…unremarkable. I wasn't tall or short, just average. I wasn't thin or fat, just your regular size eight. I wasn't beautiful or ugly, just your ordinary girl next door.

Patsy had told me time and again that I didn't dress suitably for their social status. No matter what I wore, no matter how much I tried to fit in and dress like them, the Charleston society girls, it was not enough.