Don't Go by Alexa Riley

Author:Alexa Riley [Riley, Alexa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, new adult, General
Publisher: Carina Press
Published: 2018-01-22T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Henry

Present day...

“Do you really think I’d do that to you?” I ask, seeing the raw hurt in her eyes.

“I know what I saw,” she answers stubbornly.

I search her face, and though she’s angry, there is something else there. It’s the same look in her eyes I saw that first time in the library. It’s fear.

“You’re afraid,” I say, still unmoving.

“I am not.” Her tone is defensive.

“That’s what made it so easy for you to believe I’d do something so horrible to you.” The truth being brought to light is a powerful thing, and I watch as she begins to realize her own lie. “Look in your heart, Kory. Look at me now. I’ve made some mistakes in my life and I did some dumb shit as a kid. But when it came to you, I would’ve ripped out my heart before I’d harm yours.”

I reach out and take her hands in mine, and she lets me. Tears build in her eyes and she looks away. She follows the light on the water, and it’s a few moments before she speaks.

“I’ve spent so long hating you, but now I don’t know what to believe.” She releases a breath and then looks down at our joined hands. “We were young, but you were bigger than life. You had all this money and power, and girls were just waiting to get in line around you. I kept asking myself the whole time I was with you, why me? So when I saw you in the bathroom it was like all my doubts were confirmed.”

“Why didn’t you just let me explain?” I ask. “You took off and I was terrified something happened to you. I called the cops, Kory.”

“Sorry about that,” she says, and a smile pulls at her lips. “They were pretty confused when they came by my place and I was there.”

I want to laugh, too, because I want to put all this bullshit behind us. “I didn’t hook up with Cassie Springer that night, or anyone else after you.”

Her eyes snap up to mine, and I see confusion in her expression.

“I gave my heart away when I was eighteen years old, and I was waiting for her to come back to me.

“I love you, Kory. I’ve loved you from the first moment I saw you, and I never stopped.” I sit up, taking her face in my hands, brushing her tears away with my thumb. “And I never will.”

“Oh god, Henry, my heart can’t take this.” She leans forward, kissing me with so much passion. She pours it all into the space where our lips meet, and I know then that all the things that separated us have melted away.

I pull back to look at her. I don’t want this dream to go up in smoke. “Is this real?” I ask, feeling myself smile.

“I love you, too,” she says, her eyes shining. “I tried to make it stop, lied to myself that I had but I couldn’t, and I didn’t want it to.

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