Marlin's Faith: The Virtues Book II by A.J. Downey

Author:A.J. Downey [Downey, A.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Manuscript Template
Publisher: Second Circle Press
Published: 2016-04-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

Marlin

She looked both somber and deathly afraid and I could tell it was eating her up inside. The fact that she was so distressed made me wonder. I don’t think Hope had it right; it was Hope’s opinion that when Faith was growing up, when she was caught doing something wrong or whatever, Faith was more upset about being caught than any of the actual damage she did. That wasn’t what I was seeing here. Every time I caught her looking at me she would turn those jewel bright eyes away, made brighter by her fight to suppress the tears. I think Hope was projecting more than a few of her own issues onto her younger sister, and that Faith was climbing the walls on the inside with anxiety over what she’d done. Not because she’d done it, but because it’d hurt, and damn did it ever. I was surprised to find how much.

The worst part was, that hurt was more over the fact that she didn’t trust me yet. Not enough to be plain with me, at any rate. That blew, but could it really be considered unexpected? I mean shit, look what she’d gone through.

We finished our meal and I rinsed the plates over the side for now, before setting them in the kitchen. I refreshed her glass of iced tea and mine out of the pitcher I’d brought out of my fridge on the Scarlett Ann and held out my hand to her. She looked up at me, blinking from behind a curtain of her long blonde hair, and tentatively took my hand. I took her up top where we could watch the sunset and the rainclouds roll in.

“Will it be bad?” she asked looking at the clouds in the distance, the flicker of occasional lighting forking through them.

“Nah, a lot of rain, some thunder and lightning, but wind shouldn’t be too bad. Just another thunderstorm in Florida.”

She turned and looked at me and her expression was fuckin’ heartbroken. I sighed and took her into my arms which felt fuckin’ good with how long I’d been fighting it.

“I owe you an apology, Baby Girl,” I held her close and she looked up at me sharply.

“I don’t understand…”

“Oh, don’t get me wrong, you owe me one too, but we’ll get there in a minute.”

She looked so confused that it was hard for me not to laugh; I managed though, “I’m sorry I ever made you feel like I didn’t want to touch you.” I murmured, and she searched my face in silence for several long moments.

I smiled but it was a sad thing and told her, “This is the part where you apologize for puttin’ words in my mouth rather ‘n just talking with me straight.”

She closed her eyes and sagged in my arms, resting her forehead on my chest she said, “I’m so sorry for everything, for that, but mostly for hurting you… I don’t mean to hurt anybody, I’m… I’m like a poison. It’s just; it’s just what I do, no matter how hard I try.

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