A Chance With You by Sarah Taylor

Author:Sarah Taylor [Taylor, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-05T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

Brady

Absolutely stunned by the last few minutes of conversation, I can only stare at Lucy and Cooper across the table as Lucy stands and walks away after setting down a few bucks to cover her half-consumed mimosa.

My head won't stop spinning.

Rarely have I put my foot in my mouth this horrifically.

I just can’t get over the way Olivia had stared at me when I mentioned her fiancé... No wonder she’d mentioned being miserable at Cooper and Lucy’s party. It must’ve brought up such sore memories for her. The fact that I’d caused her pain is making my heart wrench in my chest in a way I never thought possible.

“What are you doing just sitting here, man?” Cooper mutters, nudging me and jerking his chin in the direction that Olivia left in. “Go after her!”

Cooper’s right.

Olivia probably doesn’t want anything to do with me now, but I need to at least try and apologize for saying something callous, even if it was on accident.

Without another second of hesitation, I shoot up from the table and chase after the dark-haired woman, leaving Cooper and Lucy staring after me while slowly shaking their heads.

“Olivia!” I call when I finally catch up to her.

She doesn’t turn around, still barreling down the sidewalk away from the café. My fingers lace around her wrist to pull her back toward me, electricity instantly surging through me the second my palm brushes her skin. Touching her is like touching an electric wire.

The beautiful woman pulls away from me, clutching her arm to her chest as if she’d felt the same powerful jolt of energy that I had. Her chest heaves, her brow crinkling over her upturned nose.

That expression of hers makes my heart twist even further.

She doesn’t run away, though I can’t tell how long she’s going to remain standing here with me either. I can’t read the whirling emotions in her dark, lovely eyes.

“I'm sorry,” I whisper simply. I'm not the kind of guy who ever apologizes, but with Olivia, I would fall to my knees and grovel if I had to. “I didn't mean to bring up something so painful for you. When I saw that ring last night...” I flounder, chin falling toward my chest.

When she’d left in the dead of night, I’d sat right there on the floor and stared off into the distance for a good forty minutes, just trying to come up with some other reason she’d have an engagement ring. I’d been entirely convinced that she rushed out of my apartment as fast as she did because she had someone else waiting for her to come home.

“You assumed that I was some sort of cheater?” she concludes limply.

Grimly, I purse my lips. There’s no reason to lie to her. “...It was the only thing that made sense at the time.”

Olivia shakes her head and closes her eyes for a moment. When she draws a shallow breath, her nostrils flare. Her lips part so she can continue to speak, but her

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