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Mine.
“I know a part of me will always be waiting for you. And I want to hate you for it, but I can’t,” I murmured, getting closer to her mouth.
She shook her head unable to find the words.
“I’m going to kiss you now.”
She licked her lips beckoning me to do it.
“You’ve ruined me for every other woman, Aubrey, every last one,” I found myself saying.
She immediately opened her eyes and looked right into mine. “Promise?”
I didn’t falter. Not for one damn second. “Always.”
The front door slammed open, and it was like a bucket of ice cold water was briskly poured on top of her. She jumped back and away from me after the sudden intrusion.
“You need to go,” she ordered.
She wasn’t done breaking my goddamn heart.
AUBREY
“That’s not what you want,” he replied.
“You don’t know what I want, McGraw.”
“That’s where you’re wrong, darlin’, I’ve always known. It’s you that hasn’t.”
I held my chin higher, trying not to let the truth falling off his lips affect me.
“Someday you’re going to find yourself and wish you hadn’t.”
“What do you want from me?” I breathed out.
“Everything,” he simply stated. “But right now I’ll settle for holding you.”
I shook my head no, scared that if I opened my mouth my response would be different.
“Let me hold you, darlin, just for tonight. Tomorrow you can go back to pretending that you don’t love me.”
“Dylan…”
“I’ll sleep on top of the blankets like a good ol’ boy.”
“I can’t.”
“Try.”
I knew what I was doing to myself but the memories already held me captive, and I wanted so desperately to feel anything other than the hatred that lived inside of me.
Even if it was for one night.
I pulled the covers back and got under them, turning away from the face that I couldn’t bear to lie to anymore and waited. He flipped off the light and the darkness immediately took me under. I never slept with the light off. I was about to open my mouth and tell him that I couldn’t do this.
As much as I yearned to.
When I felt his arm come around me, just his arm. He didn’t tug me toward him, he didn’t move me from the place I lay and he didn’t scoot over closer to me. All he did was place his arm over my stomach as if he knew it was all I could take, and I think I fell in love with him all over again.
