For You I Will by Donna Hill

Author:Donna Hill
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-01-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

Jessie ate her dinner in the living room while she watched one of her favorite cartoons. Anthony and Crystal sat opposite each other at the kitchen counter. He picked at his food wondering why he still had not heard from Kai.

“Not hungry?” Crystal asked, breaking into his thoughts. She refilled his glass of wine.

“Things on my mind.” He took a swallow from his glass even as he knew he should eat something to take the edge off the wine.

“I know I’m not the best cook in the world, but you always liked my spaghetti.” She smiled sweetly. “Work?”

“Huh?”

“Thinking about work?”

“Yeah.” He finished off his wine and she topped him off again.

“How are things going with the campaign? Do you think Blumenthal will win?”

“He has a good shot.”

“If he wins, you’d get your dream job. That’s a pretty big deal.”

“Hmm.”

“I know how hard you’ve worked over the years. You deserve to be D.A.”

He glanced across at her. “According to you, my job and my ambition was the cause of our marriage falling apart.”

She lowered her gaze. “That was the old me, Tony. The selfish me.”

“Oh, I forgot you changed.”

“Why do you have to be this way?”

“What way?”

“This way—cold and distant.”

He pushed back from the counter, taking his drink with him.

She got up and followed him into the living room. “I don’t want us to keep fighting,” she said. “I know that you don’t believe anything that I’ve told you. All I’m asking is that you at least give me a chance to prove that you’re wrong about me.”

He turned toward her. “And give me one good reason why I should do that.”

She lifted her chin. “I’ll give you two.” She put her hand on his arm. “Because I still love you. And I want you to love me back the way you once did.”

He studied her for a moment, trying to see beyond this fairy-tale facade that she’d constructed. His head swam slightly from the wine and lack of food. He almost believed her. Almost.

“It’s over, Crystal. Accept it and move on. We can be civil, but we’ll never be an us again.” He walked away.

* * *

Anthony stretched out across his bed. He could hear the television and Jessie’s giggles. Crystal was in the next room. For a moment he imagined what it could have been like without the craziness and the lies and the betrayals. Not for all the money in the world would he put himself through that again. He wasn’t sure how or if things would ever work out between him and Kai, but he wanted to try.

Kai was everything that he wanted and needed in his life. It was crazy that in such a short space of time he could come to that conclusion. But if nothing else, he was a man of action. He went after what he wanted with a relentlessness that made him successful in his career. Now it was time to turn those same qualities to his personal life. It wouldn’t be easy.

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