A Love that Endures 2 by Bella Forrest

Author:Bella Forrest [Forrest, Bella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nightlight Press
Published: 2019-06-03T18:30:00+00:00

20

David

David had no one to talk to.

He knew that Katy wasn’t in the mood to talk in the immediate aftermath of the incident. And he respected her choice, even if he had desperately been hoping that she’d ask him to stay, to comfort and hold her through the night after the terrible end to the evening. But Katy, no doubt in a dark frame of mind, had wanted to be alone. So David retreated to the Wolf Club by himself, trying to shake off what had happened like a bad dream.

He was a little disappointed to find that Zeke was already fast asleep. Even if David wasn’t usually much of a talker, the emotions swirling inside of him at the moment definitely needed to be released somehow. And without Katy or Zeke, David wasn’t sure who he could talk to. Joseph and Cerise would be asleep by now. Besides, as well as they had gotten along, he wasn’t sure he could talk to them about something like this.

And upon further consideration, he wasn’t sure he could talk to anyone about something like this. The whole problem was that a photographer had caught something so personal, so special, and made it into something frightening and dirty.

David could still feel the passion and exhilaration of his encounter with Katy. She had looked so beautiful in the yellow lanternlight, her skin warm and glowing, even in the chill of the late-winter air. But then the flashbulbs had lit up their night. David didn’t think he’d ever felt so taken advantage of. It was a new and uncomfortable feeling. And what had coursed through him first had been a rage that was so intense it was almost frightening. What would’ve happened if Katy hadn’t tempered his response? Would he have hit the photographer?

But even worse than his own anxiety and discomfort was the reminder that Katy was hurting, too. Probably much worse than David was. After all, there were only a few people in the world whom he really cared about. But she had an entire country that looked up to her and held her to a certain standard. If the pictures ever leaked, she’d be devastated.

If.

David had smashed the camera. He didn’t care if it was illegal or if he was going to be sued. What mattered to him was saving Katy from any further embarrassment. But now that he’d had some time to think, Katy was right: just because the camera had been broken didn’t mean the files were corrupted. So there was still a possibility they could be published. And that was a frightening thought.

In the absence of anyone to talk to, and his uncertainty about even being able to speak of it, David resigned himself to silence and painful introspection. He stripped out of his clothes and fell back onto his bed in his boxer shorts. He was exhausted, and it was already very late, but he knew that sleep wouldn’t come easily.

And it didn’t.

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