Beyond The Breakwater by Radclyffe

Author:Radclyffe
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2011-08-20T03:51:53+00:00

"But I'm not leaving you."

Bri's head jerked up and her eyes met Caroline's. "You don't know that!"

Shocked, Caroline stared at her. Her first instinct was to protest, because it was unthinkable. But then she realized that Bri didn't know that, didnt believe that. "I love you. I have never loved anyone but you. I don't care how long I'm gone, or how far away from me you go. I am not going to stop loving you."

" I'm not going anywhere," Bri exclaimed.

"No? Where were you last night?"

Bri blinked and her blue eyes darkened. "Jesus, Carre."

"Did you sleep with her?" Caroline asked, her voice a strangled whisper.

"I" She wanted to make the truth disappear. She wanted the night to do over again. She wanted not to have felt what she felt. "Almost.

"Oh Bri," Caroline moaned. "Oh, god."

"Carre"

Caroline got unsteadily to her feet. She moved a short distance away and stopped, her back to the wall of the stark white tower, holding herself with her arms around her body, trembling in the chill sea breeze. "I can't...I can't even think about it right now. Take me back to Tory's."

Bri finally found her voice and jumped to her feet. "Carre. I didn't. "

"I saw you, Bri," Caroline said softly. "I know you wanted to."

"I don't know how that happened. I didn't go there meaning for it to happen. I was...lonely."

"I've been lonely, too. And I wasn't the one who left."

Heart sinking, Bri watched Caroline turn and start up the path that led back to the parking lot. For a moment, she considered not going after her. Maybe if they never left this spot, they could turn back time to that magical moment four years before, when a simple kiss had turned on a light in the darkness of her despair.

Eventually, she followed, because there was no going back, no undoing what had been done.

*****

"Caroline?" Tory asked quietly as she sat down on the sofa next to the young woman. "Honey? You okay?"

Caroline sat leaning forward, her arms folded on her knees, rocking softly. "Not really."

"I heard Bris motorcycle earlier. Is she here?"

"Gone." Caroline bit the inside of her lip. Gone. Gone, and I don't know if she's ever coming back.

"Can I help?"

"I don't think so. Everything is so...crazy." Caroline shifted and looked into Tory's eyes. "Brioh god, I can'tBri was with this other girl"

"What?" Tory exclaimed before she could stop herself. "Oh, honey, I'm so sorry."

"What would you do?" Caroline asked desperately. "Ifif it was Reese?"

"It would hurt so terribly, I'm not sure what I would do. She reached out and took Caroline's hand. "It would depend, I think, on why it happened."

"What difference would it make?"

“ Sometimes, when we're confused or a little bit lost, we make bad choices. Sometimes we don't even chose , we just let things happen. People make mistakes."

"I've got to go back to Manhattan anyhow. I keep thinking when I do that she'll..." Carre took a deep breath. "That she'll start seeing this other girl. I can't stand to think about her with someone else.

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