Learning to Forgive by Sam Crescent

Author:Sam Crescent [Crescent, Sam]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Evernight Publishing
Published: 2013-01-21T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Molly carried the box out to the barbecue pit. Coals, fuel, and matches were next to the pit. She started pouring in the coals followed by the fuel then threw a couple of matches amongst the coals until it set alight. After a few minutes it was burning away. David sat in a chair watching her.

“Are you sure you want this burning?” she asked.

He nodded his head. “I’m not going to regret this.”

She picked up each photo and threw them on the fire watching the images burn. These had been part of his life for so long that they now felt part of her life.

“The biggest mistake I ever made was telling you I’d only care about you,” David said.

Molly turned to face him. “What?”

“I told you I could never love you. That was the biggest mistake of my life.”

She turned her back on him adding more pictures to the glowing fire. No matter what happened, she’d given him everything.

“Isabella was a very lucky woman,” she said.

“Do you remember that night when I went to Vegas with the guys?” Molly nodded her head. She’d never forget that night. He’d called and filled her with hope only to squash it an hour later. Without saying a word she added more pictures to the glowing embers.

“Well, I told the guys that you were my life. I can’t remember everything I said. Too many glasses of bubbly, but I told them they either had to accept you or get out of my life.”

She knew what his friends had been saying about her behind her back. They thought she’d been after his money. If only her love for David Sinclair had been as simple as money. “I’m sorry you had to put your friendship on the line for me.”

“I’d put everything on the line for you.”

How she wished she could believe those words. It would be so easy to turn round, hug him close, and forget the last twenty-five years. However, she couldn’t do it.

Instead, she remained silent as she burned every piece of visible memory that David had.

She took a seat waiting for the fire to die down. “I never married you for your money,” she said after some time had passed.

“I know.”

“Sometimes I think it would have been easier if you were in love with Isabella.” She stared up at the bright blue sky hoping for some answers to her own problems.

“Why?” he asked.

“Because I wouldn’t have to deal with the fact you never loved her. At least you loved someone.”

He cupped her cheek forcing her to look at him. She fought his hold for several moments. “I don’t want to look at you,” she said.

“Please, Molly.”

The earnest way he spoke made her give in. She turned to look at him and wished she hadn’t. Tears were streaming from his eyes. David had barely cried in all of the years she’d known him.

“Don’t cry,” she said, wrapping her arms around him.

“I loved you, Molly. All this time I loved you.”

She shook her head, denying his feelings.

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