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“You are. I know it.”
She looked up into his warm eyes. At that moment she knew he meant every word he said. He wanted her. He wanted to be with her. Not just for sex but forever. She was his forever.
She broke away from his embrace. With their bodies touching she was unable to think straight. Her plans seemed to blur and fizz around the edges whenever he was near.
“I can’t do this. You and me. I can’t.” She headed toward the door. “I think you should go now. I have to finish packing.”
* * * *
Rob stared across the room at the woman he wanted to share the rest of his life with. Martina. And she was asking him to leave.
She knew they had a connection. He didn’t know where she got the wall she put up around herself. It was time to find out.
“Who’s Mac?”
Her face went pale. She looked at him like she had just seen a ghost.
“Who is Mac? Is he the reason you won’t give us a chance? Did he break your heart?”
Her body eased a little and she laughed. A quiet giggle to herself. She found this conversation funny. A little inappropriate.
“Yes. Mac broke my heart.”
He knew it. He knew there had to be a man somewhere in her past that made her the woman she is today, scared and lonely.
“But not in the way you think.”
He shook his head, wondering what else it could be.
“Mac is my sister.” She let her head fall forward. “Was my sister.”
“Sister?” Shame on him for automatically assuming that Mac would be a man’s name. “Wait. Was?”
“She died. Two years ago.”
“I’m sorry. I had no idea.”
“No one knows.”
“What happened?”
“Cancer. Colon cancer. It was too late by the time they detected it. She ended up living a couple of years longer than expected, so we made the best of the time we had left.”
“You took care of her?”
“Our parents died when I was eighteen.”
He started pacing at that point. The information too much to bear. He felt callous having thought that her troubles rested on a man. This was much more than that.
“She was the only person I had in the world. I was determined to get her into remission. That’s when I discovered holistic medicine.”
Her dream finally made sense.
“It helped her, for a while. We were able to have a normal life together for a long time, until it got so bad she couldn’t get out of bed. And then she couldn’t leave the hospital, and then she…”
“How did your parents die?”
“Car accident. They left us with a lot of money. That’s how we were able to pursue treatment for her. That’s why I’m able to work as a yoga instructor and live in a place like this. When she died, I got everything.”
