Hard to Resist by Lauren Landish & Willow Winters

Author:Lauren Landish & Willow Winters [Landish, Lauren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-31T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

Lizzie

Crap, I think as I open the fridge and peer inside. There’s nothing to eat. I have no idea why there’s no food in there. Probably because I’ve been so focused on Liam and forgetting to do normal things, like go grocery shopping. The strange thing is, my appetite is starting to return. What I wouldn’t do for some of Nat’s delicious sugar cookies right now. Or chocolate. Or wine. Or better yet, all three. I need a real meal though.

My stomach growls as I close the fridge and take a look around the kitchen. It looks different now than it did when I came home. He didn’t have half the things I use in the kitchen, so new things have been added to the counter. I threw away a few of the old things he’d kept. A couple I know were my mother’s. Like her mixer. I’m keeping that. I’ll never throw that away.

I think I’m getting better with dealing with the pain. I find myself no longer thinking of daddy a million times a day, or when I do, I don't instantly burst into tears. Even now, the picture of his face on the fridge only makes my heart hurt a little. I don't want to rip it down and sob inconsolably on the floor.

A feeling of guilt washes over me as I gaze at his portrait. I should still be grieving, shouldn’t I? It hasn’t even been that long since daddy died, and I’m already forgetting about him.

It just isn’t right.

It’s Liam, I think to myself. He’s filling that awful void left by daddy.

If anything, this realization makes it worse. I’m already moving on with my life.

But isn’t that what daddy would want? For me to be happy? And with a man he obviously put so much trust in?

I have to believe this, otherwise the guilt is going to eat me alive.

The sound of the front door opening tears me out of my musing. My mood instantly brightens. Liam's here.

“I’m in the kitchen!” I yell, stifling the other emotions and trying to remember what I was doing in the kitchen to begin with.

Oh yeah, movie night. We’ve been having these little date nights, and I really love them. It’s like real life is suspended when I’m with him. I know I have to face reality again at some point, but I don’t want to. I just want what we have together.

I’m ignoring all the other responsibilities for as long as I have to. At least I've paid my tuition. The money came through, and everything's taken care of. Liam started the paperwork the day we went on our date. So for days I was worrying over nothing. He says I worry too much and to just trust him. So I have, and I have to admit, life’s easier just letting him take care of me. I don't really have any worries, other than my grief over my father passing. But it's getting better. It really is. With Liam helping me, I can keep inching my way toward normalcy.

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