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My eyebrows pinched together. “Where?”
“Would it matter? You’re mine for the rest of the afternoon, remember? Take a ride with me. I want to show you something.”
He reached for my hand and my resolve quickly shattered while I grabbed his. I tried not to get emotional while he drove us to wherever he was taking me, but it was difficult not to. An endless stream of conflicting emotions spiraled through my mind, tearing right at my heart. Confusing me even more when it came to him, but in a much different way than before.
I closed my eyes just for a second, too consumed with feelings I didn’t know how to stop. I tried ignoring the looming feeling in the pit of my stomach, focusing on the beautiful scenic route he drove us on instead. My thoughts never stopped racing as I desperately tried enjoying the fresh breeze in my face. I tried living in the moment with Ethan, even if it wouldn’t last. I sought the refuge he always provided, with or without him even knowing it.
Which was yet another thing about Ethan…
He wanted to see the truths that most people tried to ignore.
The way he looked at me, the way he spoke to me, the way he listened.
Every smile.
Every laugh.
Every word that fell from his lips meant something.
It didn’t matter how big or small.
It was there.
Etching its way into my heart where no one could ever come close to it.
Not that I had ever let them.
Even with my fiancé.
When Ethan slowed down and took a turn onto a secluded road that readPrivate Propertyat the entrance, I asked, “Where are we going?”
He smiled, pulling into a makeshift parking spot in a forest. We were in the countryside, and before I knew what was happening, as if reading my mind, he tilted his head to the side, enticing me with whatever he was going to say.
I licked my lips, my mouth suddenly dry. His mischievous glare shadowed the movement of my tongue. So when he slowly stepped out of the SUV, taking his warmth with him, I followed him. Once we rounded the hood of the vehicle, he turned and grabbed my hand to lead us onto a cemented walkway. My eyes shifted swiftly from him to the surprise suddenly in front of me.
“Oh my God.” There, in front of my eyes, was our own little waterhole in France.
I couldn’t believe it.
“How did you find this place?”
He smiled, big and wide, and what proceeded next happened so fast that I never saw it coming. In an instant, he threw me over his shoulder like I weighed nothing and hauled ass toward the water.
“Ethan! Don’t you dare!”
Of course, he didn’t listen to me. Not that I expected him to. In a flash, he threw me into the stream. For the next hour, we played in the water like two young teenagers with their whole lives ahead of them.
“I can’t believe you did this,” I exclaimed, sitting next to him in the water to watch the sunset.
“I figured you could use some fun that doesn’t involve catering to hundreds of people.”
“Is that what you think I’m doing?”
“Livvy, you’ve always been a people pleaser. Especially when it came to your parents.”
“Yeah,” I said.
He was right, so there was no point arguing with him about it.
