Harlequin Medical Romance October 2020--Box Set 2 of 2 by Louisa Heaton

Author:Louisa Heaton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

“IT’S OKAY. IT’S OKAY.”

Elise didn’t know what else to say to the man trembling in her arms, or how to comfort him. She thought he was crying, but he did so without sound, just the silent, quaking body expressing sorrow and regret.

Because she knew there was no real comfort she could offer.

What he was seeing, what it appeared he mourned, was the past, and the lost chance to be a part of all that was laid out two-dimensionally before him in the albums. To experience what was pictured in real time, as she had.

She remembered the feel of holding Jeevan as a newborn, a baby, a toddler. Remembered the weight of him, the scent, as he went from baby powder sweetness to grubby little boy, to the teenager who wouldn’t leave the house without the stinky cologne he favored at the time.

There’d been fights over clothes, about how he wore his pants, and the ugly hat he’d found on sale somewhere and wore until it started to unravel. Strong words exchanged over report cards and inappropriate friends, rumors of him sneaking cigarettes—which he thankfully didn’t become addicted to—and the snake she once found in his room.

Elise knew she wouldn’t change any of it, although there were parts she would prefer not to relive.

Rohan, she now realized, would give anything to have been there for all of it, and was grieving the inability to do so.

So there really were no words to ease his anguish, or to make it right. All she could do was hang on and try to see him through.

In a way, she’d been where he was, just in a different way.

She was eternally thankful for her sister, Emma, who’d taken her in and held her while she wept for Rohan. Emma had traveled the road of loss with her, encouraging her to think of the future, not just of the past. Perhaps Elise could do the same for Rohan now.

“You can’t go back in time, Rohan, but you have a lot to look forward to. I know it hurts to know what you missed, but there’s time to start over, to build a relationship with Jeevan, and be happy.”

He lifted his head from her shoulder. His eyes were red, and the long, dark lashes damp, and her heart ached for him even more.

This close she could clearly see the fine lines of his scars, noticed for the first time how close to his eye one of them went. Without thought she touched it, thankful the laceration had stopped short, and he hadn’t been blinded.

“Were we in love, Elise—back then?”

The truth was hard to admit, but it was the only way to help him move forward.

“Yes, we were. Very much, although I held back as much as I could, too frightened to give in to it completely. You wanted us to make a life together, and we were to discuss how we would move forward after you came back. You said you’d wait and see where I

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