As If It Never Happened by J.J. Marzilli

Author:J.J. Marzilli [Marzilli, J.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B071NFRTV8
Goodreads: 34971732
Publisher: J J Marzilli
Published: 2017-04-24T03:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

The Epiphany

The next morning, Mario went back into their stateroom to find Taylor folding and packing clothes into suitcases that were lying open on the bed. Her face looked drawn and sullen. Her eyes were red. He sat back in a chair, put his legs on the bed and said nothing for a long while, then said “Going somewhere?”

“Back to Boston.”

“Is that your idea, or are you doing it because you think that’s what I want?”

“Don't you?”

“No.” He got up and walked over to where she was standing and started to carefully return her clothes to the closet. She sat down. When he finished he took a bottle of brandy and two small glasses from the bar and placed them on the table. Taylor knew very well what this meant. It was his way of saying they were about to have a serious conversation. He sat down and poured some in his glass and slid the bottle in her direction. She could take it or leave it. She left it as she always did.

“I don't want you to run away from this. We have too much invested in each other to walk away from this without a struggle. We must try to work through this. We must try to find a way to come to terms and put all this behind us. You are a fighter so you should be willing to try. Will you?”

“Maybe. What do you want from me?”

“How about a little honesty? There were many times for you to come clean and level with me and you just glided by them without saying a word of it to me. For a long time, I suspected there was something in your past that you did not want me to hear. Did you think I would never find out?”

“No. I just kept putting it off. 'Not now, later,' I would say.”

“Why didn't you tell me that day when we were comparing our pasts? By then I was certain that you were hiding something big from me. I was trying to get you to let me in on it. It was the right time.”

“I wanted to then and many other times, but I was afraid that…well...”

“Say it.”

“That you would push me out of your life.”

“No. And I hope that it never comes to that. But right now I want to hear it from you. Everything. I want to know what happened at the academy. Taylor, or should I say Jenny, I want to know who you really are. I don't see how we can have a future together until we regain our trust in each other.”

“You’re angry and you have a right to be, but your anger and…the…the hostility I feel coming from you is making me feel like a criminal on the witness stand being cross-examined. You said that you want to work through this, but how can you expect me to want to honestly tell you about a most horrific time of my life if you keep

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