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THIRTEEN
Hanna
This was fast.
Too fast.
Leo and I were back at my place, and I wasn’t sure he’d taken his mouth off of me since we’d walked through the door.
And his hands?
God, his hands wereeverywhere.
I loved it.
My body had been buzzing since dinner, and I’d had a feeling that this was where we were going to end up. There had been far too much chemistry between us to ignore.
So many sparks, so much intensity, and all the knowing glances.
It was no wonder I was here with my back against the wall just inside the front door, Leo’s body pressed into mine, while he kissed my mouth and lifted my thigh in his hand to hold it tight to his side.
Something about him was overwhelming me in the best way possible, so it was a wonder I could recognize just how fast it was going.
But it wasn’t the pace at which he was moving now that I was concerned about. It was this whole thing that was happening between us. I didn’t know how I’d gone from barely being able to have a conversation with him to suddenly feeling comfortable being seductive.
It had to be him, because I couldn’t imagine anyone else being able to evoke this kind of reaction and response from me. If it had been anyone else that day I went to the post office, I’m not sure I would have walked out of there and asked whether they’d had lunch.
I wondered what it was about him that caused that.
Was there something specific, or was this just how it was supposed to be?
Fate was a funny thing.
For such a long time, it was very easy to be upset about things that had happened in my life. There was my mom basically giving up on me, and of course, there was all that Jimmy had done to me. I thought everything had turned around when I left my mom’s house, and for a while, it had.
Those few years with Archie and Garrett were undoubtedly the happiest moments and memories I’d had in my life up until that point. Of course, I’d had reservations about the things we had to do to survive, but having them in my life, knowing I had those two guys who cared about me, looking after me, I found I couldn’t truly be upset. Even when things were tough for us, I still knew that I hadn’t ever felt happier in my life.
But then I met Saul, a man intent on providing a better life for me than I’d ever had or could have imagined. And while it seemed like everything was great on the surface, the way that me accepting that offer and trying to change my life for the better ended the friendship I had with Archie and Garrett had burned a hole in my heart. It had been devastating to lose them.
It was no surprise that I questioned so much about what I was experiencing. Was my life going to constantly be wrought with bouts of happiness that would ultimately end well before I was ready for it to happen? Was anything ever going to be permanent?
If it hadn’t been for Saul’s constant support and love, I wasn’t sure I would have survived losing the two of them. But a few years ago, when I lost Saul, I wondered if I’d done it all for nothing.
Just one more disappointment I had to face.
But now, I realized it wasn’t all for naught.
Now, I knew that there was a reason that my life had taken all the turns it had taken.
I was starting to think that fate was responsible for everything I’d endured, and it was all a means to bring me to this very place in my life.
It wasn’t to say that I didn’t miss Archie and Garrett. I did. I thought about them often, and I wondered if they were both doing okay in their lives now.
But my life had led me somewhere else. They could have joined me on the journey, but they made their own choices, and I had to respect that they did what they believed was best for them.
I no longer had any questions about whether I’d done the right thing in my life.
