Fighting for Her (A Tantalizing Trope Novella Book 1) by Dee Ellis

Author:Dee Ellis [Ellis, Dee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-02-17T18:30:00+00:00

Cress

After Judge left town, I waited. Waited for my life to start with him. Then, for it to continue without him. I had been waiting for years for him, even if I lied and said otherwise. I dated of course. I tried to move on. I mean, I tried to try, at least.

If they didn't have green eyes I didn't trust them at all. If they had anything but sandy hair, too long on top and silky in my fingers, I didn't like how they talked to me. None of them could compare to the man from my past.

Judge was more than my past. Once, he was supposed to be my whole fucking future. For years he laid next to me in bed, whosever we were snuggled in, and promised me that. Maybe at first it wasn't about us getting married or having babies. It was just about us being together. Judge protecting me from my family and from myself.

Me soothing the rage that erupted so often in him. Something little would set him off and he would lose it. I was always there. To hold him, to let him hold me. Cry if he needed to. Because he wouldn't cry with anyone else but me. Just like I stopped crying after the shit my father did to me. Until I knew it was okay, that Judge would take care of me. Then I cried whenever I needed to. He always put me back together.

As much as Judge saved me, I had done the same for him. That anger that he couldn't control was soothed only by me. We never tried to figure it out. Or wondered what it meant. It just was fact. I was all that could calm him and that was okay. Like it was okay that he was the only thing that made me feel anything.

Sometimes, walking down the halls, he would see me and shove me into an alcove. I wouldn't even see him before he was crushing me against him. Telling me he needed me to calm him down. Sometimes I would just take him to the fields we laid in. Or to the springs where we swam for hours. Others I would just hold him right there and tell him it was okay.

"Look at me, baby,” I cooed one day when a teacher had set him off, “Focus on me, Judge. Know what?" Judge smiled immediately and touched his nose to mine.

"What, baby?" His big hands combed through my hair as he calmed himself down.

"You smell like the woods. I like it. I love it. We should go camping tonight. Take your dad's tent and look at the stars. Catch lightning bugs." Then he smiled at me, bright and beautiful and just like that, he was back.

We were all the other needed for so long. I don't even know if we realized we were in love before we were. I don't know when the love happened. But I know when the want started. I can remember the moment I knew.

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