His Second Chance by Katee Robert

Author:Katee Robert [Robert, Katee]
Language: eng
Format: epub

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Noemi stood there for a long time, staring at the door Isaac had very carefully not slammed behind him when he left her. For good this time. There should be something, some kind of relief or clean pain or…

But no.

All she felt was a hole gaping open beneath her feet, one that would send her spiraling into darkness for years to come. There was no happy ending here. She likely didn’t deserve one.

It hadn’t been like this last time.

When Noemi cut things off with Isaac, she’d been heartbroken, but a tiny kernel of hope existed that they’d find a way. That kernel might have shrunk as weeks turned into months into years, but it still existed, something she could set her course by. A tiny question of “What if?”

What if they found a way?

What if they made things work?

What if love really could conquer all?

Now she knew the answer. They couldn’t. Things wouldn’t. And love was only as strong as the two people willing to put the work into it.

She walked back to the bedroom, but the rumpled bedspread only reinforced the fact that she would be sleeping alone… forever. Noemi had embraced the comforting lie that someday she’d marry—it was expected, after all—but in the wake of her last time with Isaac, she couldn’t stand the thought of another man’s hands on her. Of sharing her bed, her life, her future with anyone but him.

“What am I doing?” She shook her head, and then did it again. No clarity came, but through the fog of her jumbled thoughts, one word rose to the surface. No.

“No,” she said aloud.

She had sacrificed everything for her Family. She had put her happiness and her personal desires on hold to ensure that Huxley didn’t go under in the wake of her father’s treason. Two years later they were fine. They were flourishing.

If she couldn’t follow her heart’s path now, she’d never be able to do it.

The path forward lay littered with pitfalls and one wrong step could send them tumbling over the edge but…

She looked at the bed again, the memory of what she and Isaac had done superimposing itself over the emptiness now. If she didn’t try, she would spend the rest of her life regretting that choice. She would resent her Family for being the excuse she used to push Isaac away once and for all.

“I love him,” she said to the empty room.

Noemi was no child. She knew that love wasn’t a recipe for lasting happiness, but after nearly a decade of knowing Isaac, she knew Isaac. If they could navigate the first step forward, they would carve out their own path. Together.

This might be her only chance to see if it was even possible.

She rushed into her closet and threw on the first thing she found—a dress that wasn’t the least bit appropriate for this time of day. Noemi barely glanced at her shoes. She could sprint in heels, but she didn’t want to take the time to put them on.

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