Bossy Pants by Tana Rose

Author:Tana Rose [Rose, Tana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-06-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Lincoln

I thought bringing Olivia here, running this errand with her, would be a good way to completely end our relationship. To put the final nail in the coffin of our very brief but passionate affair.

I was an idiot. A big fucking idiot.

We aren’t anything anymore. Those words had nearly gutted me. I’d had to work to not physically double up as the pain hit me. But she’s right. Of course she’s right. We aren’t anything anymore. That’s what this was supposed to be. The end of our… whatever we were together. This was supposed to help me get over her.

It did the opposite.

Watching her try on rings for me, sliding them onto her finger, the way she held out her hand and tilted her head to see the glitter of the stone better as she considered what would best suit my sister? God, it did something to my insides. And now I can only imagine sliding a ring onto her finger for real, making her mine in a way that announces it to the whole fucking world.

I know the ring I’d get for her, too.

A round moss agate center stone, with asymmetrical diamond accents around it, five on one side, tow on the other, with even smaller diamonds spiking out from it, making it almost look like a snowflake or an ice crystal.

She’d practically glowed when she’d seen it on her finger, and I’d felt a returning glow, right in my gut.

The ring I’d settled on was much less ornate. It had to be because, rather than telling her the truth, I’d told her it was for my little sister, Francie. I can’t exactly buy an engagement ring to give to Francie.

So now here I am strolling along the boardwalk, a breeze pulling at the loose strands of blond hair around Olivia’s face, and I’m imagining getting down on one knee to ask her to marry me. It’s a fantasy. And while I’ve lived out some of my best fantasies with Olivia Hart, this is not one of them.

It’ll never happen.

But what if it could?

I push the thought away, making the ache in my chest worse. I rub at it idly, as if that will help with the emotional pain I have no right feeling.

I know I can never marry her. I wouldn’t want to do that to her in the first place, but my other responsibilities… I push that thought away and instead focus on what I can accomplish, what I can do.

I never would have thought I would miss her so damn much, especially while she’s right there in front of me, but I do. She’s like a phantom limb that I can still feel, but I can’t fucking touch.

As much as I thought today would end everything I’ve been feeling for her, it hasn’t. It’s only made it worse. Olivia Hart may be done with me, but I sure as shit am not done with her. I can’t be.

I drop my hand from the never-ending ache until it’s between us, brushing against hers in the barest of touches.

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