Love, Me: A Pleasant Valley Novel by Anna Brooks & Anna Brooks

Author:Anna Brooks & Anna Brooks [Brooks, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: A Pleasant Valley Novel
Publisher: Anna Brooks
Published: 2017-04-24T18:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Vaughn

I walk Rayne to her car and lean in to give her a kiss before she drives away. I’d be lying to myself if I said this woman hasn’t already changed me more than I ever thought I would or could change. When I get back to my apartment, I head straight to my room to put on clean clothes. The rumpled sheets make my cock twitch when I think about her hands clutching the material.

When she called me, I didn’t know what to expect when she arrived; I had no clue what she wanted to say. I didn’t have any expectations at all, actually. The battle of allowing a woman into my life who’s still hung up on another man weighs heavy. Last night, as I couldn’t sleep, I thought about how things would have been different if my mother had given a shit, even a little bit. I don’t know who my dad is, and I never met him. For all I know, he could be dead. He is to me, anyway, so it doesn’t matter.

Part of the reason I always tried to seek my mom’s attention was because I watched her give it all to someone else. Listened to her blame me for any and everything. If she had tossed me a goddamned sliver of a bone, things would have been different.

I’ve realized we’re not so different, Rayne and me. The past still hangs onto us, making it hard to move sometimes because it’s so crippling. But in the bad, there’s good. There has to be good at the end of it all. And she’s my good.

She’s everything I want, and now that I have her, nothing and nobody will take her away from me. I’m willing to accept the tragedies of her past, and I know she’s willing to accept me for who I am now. The real question is will I ever decide to tell her who I truly was back then. And when she finds out, will she still want to be with a man responsible for his stepfather’s death?

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