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“Don’t.”
“Cadence…” His voice pleaded and it was breaking me. Destroying what little restraint I had left.
“Please don’t. We’re done.”
We had to be. No matter what I wanted, this wouldn’t work. Even if he thought it could eventually, his life would clash with mine. He wouldn’t admit it now but one day he would have to. We wouldn’t work and then I would be left picking up the pieces.
I turned and hurried down the stairs, rushed him before he could stop me, and my mouth landed hard against his. I kissed him and he kissed me back, pulling me into him, holding me like this just made sense.
And in a way we did. But I knew better and so did he. One of us had to be responsible enough to do what was right. I pulled away, jolted up the stairs, and didn’t look back because if I did, I would fold.
thirteen
Sol.
Hours passed. I didn’t move. Sat in the same spot, on the back porch staring blankly at nothing. The sun went down and night covered the sky. I still didn’t move from my spot. I was stuck physically just like my thoughts were stuck mentally.
“Here?” I looked up at my brother who stepped out the shadows extending a brown paper bag. The greasy smell lifted as soon as my eyes landed on it.
“You left?” I accepted the food but set it on the table next to me.
“Not that you would have noticed, but yeah. You’ve been out here for hours and we had to eat,” he murmured lowly.
“You don’t have a license, Liq.” I glared at him, gaze seething with anger but he waved me off and settled into the chair next to mine.
“Taking my license doesn’t mean my ability to drive vanished.”
“It took your ability to drivelegally,” I warned and he shrugged.
“Who the fuck cares about me driving in this country ass town?”
“Country or not they have cops, Liq, and if one of them had stopped you…”
“Well they didn’t. I was careful.”
“But they could have.”
“Just say thank you.” He motioned to the bag and I decided to let it go, for now. “What did she say?”
I pinned him with a heat charged stare and he shoved his hands into the pockets of his sweats. I was surprised he had passed on a hoodie but he did wear a hat pulled down low on his head so that his eyes were hidden beneath it. He was always hiding.
“Not much.”
“So she didn’t tell you what happened or you didn’t ask?”
“I asked, she told me, and then she walked away because we don’t fit.”
He shrugged. “You don’t.”
His confidence pissed me off. No we didn’t fit but we could. Or at least I wanted us to. When I glanced at him he kept going.
“You don’t fit with who she is now. Cadence. Her past, the person she used to be, Honor Monroe, that shit could work but not the woman living in a small country town who has a kid. It doesn’t fit.”
My heated glare was on him again. But he smiled and shrugged. “Unless you want it to.”
“Who gives a fuck about what I want? She damn sure doesn’t.”
Kaliq chuckled, shaking his head. “And it’s fucking you up isn’t it?”
