From This Moment by Melanie Harlow

Author:Melanie Harlow [Harlow, Melanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MH Publishing
Published: 2017-10-09T18:00:00+00:00

My sheets smelled like Wes, and I was slow to get out of bed the next morning. When my alarm buzzed, I turned it off and lingered for a few minutes. I wondered if he was awake yet. He said he liked to run early, but he hadn’t left my house until nearly midnight last night. Maybe he’d be too tired.

Curling up on my side, I wrapped myself in the bedding a little tighter and stared at the sunlight that was just starting to filter through the blinds. It didn’t seem possible that it was the same sun that had risen and set yesterday. Everything was so different. The world was not the same place.

I still couldn’t believe it—Wes had had feelings for me all these years? He’d wanted me from the start but had been too shy to say anything? He’d watched Drew and I fall in love, always wondering what if? That must have been so hard. I didn’t regret my years with Drew, but I did feel an ache in my heart for Wes. I knew what it was like to have a silent, unrequited crush on someone. Who didn’t? But how awful to be the one who introduced your crush to the person she married. To serve as best man at the wedding. To make a toast declaring them “true soul mates, a match made in heaven.”

Later that night at the wedding, while Drew was drinking with some of his college buddies, I ran into Wes just outside the entrance of the venue. I’d needed some air, and he said he had, too. Big parties were never his thing. I remembered thanking him for his toast, and he told me how happy he was for us.

“So many people keep saying they can’t believe Drew wants to settle down,” I’d said, fanning my face. “I’m beginning to get a complex about it.”

“You’ve got nothing to worry about.” He stood with his hands in his pockets and spoke softly but confidently.

“Really?”

“Really.” Then he’d said something to me I’d never forgotten, but hadn’t thought about in years. His words came back to me now with startling clarity. “I knew the moment I saw you that you were the one.”

It had made me feel so good. Of course, I’d assumed he was talking about Drew, but maybe there was another layer of meaning beneath the words.

And what about all the years since the wedding? Had he stayed away because seeing us was painful? Because he felt guilty?

I rolled onto my back and stared at the ceiling, pulling the sheet to my chin. This was so fucked up. What were we going to do? Just because he’d had feelings for me all that time didn’t make this palatable to the public.

I closed my eyes and shook my head, thinking if it was anyone but Wes, people would probably say things like good for you, it’s about time you got out there. Plenty of people in my life wanted me to be happy, to move on, to find love again.

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