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She sighed, bowing her head.
I couldn’t believe we were having this argument at my little sister’s wedding. She was marrying my best friend, and this was supposed to be their day. I thought … fuck, I didn’t know what I thought anymore.
How could we let life just get in the way of our love for each other?
We’d been together on and off since we were fifteen. When we got back together the last time we were twenty-four, and I knew she was the one I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. I wasn’t going to risk losing her again for anything, so I asked her to marry me a few weeks later and never looked back.
Ten years ago, we were so in love.
So devoted.
So fucking consumed with each other.
Where did we go wrong?
With an utmost sincere, pained expression on her face, she coaxed, “I don’t want to just be another thing you don’t give up on, Christian.”
“You’re taking my words out of context, Kinley.”
“Am I? I haven’t been your priority in who knows how long.”
“That’s bullshit! I’m inside you making you come on my cock—”
“This isn’t about sex, Christian! This has nothing to do with that!”
“What the fuck? I give you everything! What more do you want from me?”
“You give me everything? You can’t be serious. You think I don’t realize how detached you are from me because I can’t—”
“We are not talking about this here,” I snarled in a low rumble. Gripping onto her arm, I dragged her ass to the back of the farmhouse on my sister’s property where the ceremony and reception were being held.
During the exchange of their vows, I watched Kinley’s face the entire time. Desperately trying to hold onto whatever I could in a moment that felt like just another end for us. Her bright green eyes I loved for so many years were full of life as if she were recalling exactly what I was. Where we were the ones standing in front of our friends and family, vowing to be together for better or for worse.
She still loved me.
I still loved her.
Yet none of it mattered anymore.
Life had passed us by in the blink of an eye. We were no longer those two crazy kids who thought we could take the world on together. Our love had been replaced with anger, our devotion began to crumble, and our lives started drifting apart.
But anything worth having is worth fighting for, right?
She was the only woman who had ever touched my heart, my soul, and every fiber of my being belonged to her.
I was hers.
Inside and out.
However, now her love felt like a double-edged sword placed directly in my heart. Her eyes weren’t a bright shining color of green. They looked sad and hollow, although I could still see the love she had for me hidden behind all the uncertainty.
She turned around to leave, and I grabbed her arm, turning her to face me. “I love you, Kinley.”
She immediately shut her eyes like it pained her to look at me. I reached up instead, holding onto the sides of her face, willing her to open them for me.
“Sweetness,” I tenderly coaxed.
I only called her that when I really needed her to look at me, to talk to me, to listen to me…
