Holiday Happiness 2: Second Chance Christmas (BWWM Interracial Romance) by Roxy Wilson

Author:Roxy Wilson [Wilson, Roxy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, United States, African American, Romance, Contemporary, Multicultural, Two Hours or More (65-100 Pages), Short Stories, Multicultural & Interracial
Amazon: B00R6CW8O6
Published: 2014-12-17T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

I still love him.

How could she love a man who broke her heart?

How could she still want him?

And what was she supposed to do about these irrational feelings that sizzled inside her?

Sometime during the night, the storm quelled. The sun dawned on a silent, white earth. The time had come for them to say good-bye. Maybe she needed to add an apology, beg his forgiveness, but Brielle couldn’t bring herself to approach him, to tell him how she felt. She’d spent the morning cloistered in her room. Unreasonable as her actions were, she’d expected something more than what she received during his stay. Although she brought him here against his will because she wanted answers, being with him reminded her of the crazy, stupid love she harbored for him.

Her love for him was a flickering flame that only needed a little fuel to make it blaze brightly, like never before. But how was that possible after an absence of four years and being here in the cabin for just three days? It wasn’t just physical attraction, although that was also a reality that she had to deal with, but rather it was a warm, tingling feeling in her heart whenever she glanced at him. The man didn’t change much. He was the same man for whom she put aside all her dreams so that she could be with him. And even though she did make a different life for herself after his departure, it appeared that she still harbored strong feelings.

Love. Such a strange emotion but so much power in it. And yet, it failed them both when they were married. Sure they married when they were fresh out of college, and by the time they were twenty-five they were divorced for a reason she still wasn’t sure about. But even now, after his abandonment, after all those years of loneliness, she still felt the same way. She loved Toby, as much as she did before.

The realization tore apart whatever little control she’d maintained in the past few days. It was an unfair world. If only things were different. If only he didn’t leave her, divorce her. But he did divorce her, so the bottom line was there was no point holding on to something that was no longer a part of her future.

She heard a pickup slide to a stop outside the cabin.

“Brielle.” he called. “I’m leaving.”

She wanted to run outside and stop him. All she wanted was another chance, but if nothing else, she had her pride. She wasn’t going to fall into his arms when he offered her nothing in exchange. If this was the end, she would accept it as she did when he left her before. He knocked on her door, but she refused to answer. Once more, he knocked but she didn’t get up from her bed. No. It was better not to see him again. If she did so, she might be tempted to tell him that she loved him. Her ego wouldn’t take the hit of another rejection.

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