Finding Purpose (Colorado Veterans Book 1) by Tiffani Lynn

Author:Tiffani Lynn [Lynn, Tiffani]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-04-03T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Quinn

I gave him the letters three days ago and haven’t seen him since. Ms. Polly said he left to go to counseling but she only heard him leave. She didn’t see him either. I fell asleep wondering what he was thinking as he read. Somewhere deep in the night I feel the covers lift and the bed dip behind me. The squeak of the door opening is what woke me. I can tell by his gait and the fact that he took a minute to remove his leg that it’s Judson. Cool skin presses up against my bare legs as my hair is swept up and over the pillow, out of the way. His strong arm wraps around me.

“You loved me?” The rumble of his voice rolls through me, breaking the quiet of the room.

I tense up, debating if I should put myself out there any further, but I don’t answer.

“Did you?” he asks again.

“Yes,” I whisper.

“Do you still? I’ve been reading the letters and I didn’t make it to the last one.”

I stay quiet, unsure of how to answer.

“Do. You. Still. Love me?” he asks, with a pause after almost every word for emphasis.

“If you won’t answer that question will you at least tell me if you’re in love with Jeff?”

“No, I’m not in love with Jeff. I care about him, but I’m not in love with him.”

“Are you going to keep seeing him?”

“No, I already ended it.”

“Why?”

I don’t answer. I can’t lie and I don’t want to tell the truth.

“Is it because you still love me?”

I pause for a long moment before I finally answer, “Yes.”

“Even though I’m half the man I left here as? Even though I’m a drug addict? Even though I’m a mess who can’t get his shit together? Even though I’ve been a huge dick to you?”

“Yes.”

“Why? You can do so much better. You’re the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen in my life. Your loyalty and tenderness are rivaled only by your strength. I’m not worthy of you. Why me?”

“I just love you. I have since the night you saved me all those years ago. There’s just something about you that calls to me.”

“It doesn’t make sense. I didn’t write you on purpose. So you’d move on and so I wouldn’t have to hear about you doing it. I thought you did, but as I read the letters I realized you never let me go. When you dated that guy five years after I left, you tried to but didn’t. When you dated that guy I just read about in year seven, you still didn’t let me go. Why? They sounded like good guys.”

“They were, but they were never you.”

A soft kiss lands on my neck just below the hairline by my ear and my whole body shudders in reaction.

“You love me?” he asks again. His warm breath triggers a chain reaction of goose bumps all over my body.

“Yes.”

“Say it.” His hand slips under my short satin nightgown, along my ribs and up over my breast.

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