Modern Romance January 2021 a Books 5-8 by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2020-11-13T22:01:11+00:00

Georgie fled down the hall, the tears that she’d been wretchedly holding back spilling over and streaking down her cheeks. With every step she took the knife slicing her heart to pieces struck harder and faster, the pain flowing through her veins unbearable.

Why was this happening to her? she thought with a desperate sniff. Why was life, her illness, so cruel? What had she ever done to deserve any of it? Why couldn’t she be happy? Why couldn’t she be normal?

Reaching the lift, she pressed the button with one trembling finger, but the lift seemed to be as broken as she was because nothing happened, no matter how much she jabbed away at it. And she really needed it to work because she had to escape. She had to find somewhere to hole up and lick her wounds, wounds that were raw and deep and indelible.

But what if there was no escape? a little voice inside her head cried. What if no matter how far she ran, how hard she tried, this was always going to be her reality? What if she was destined to be dogged by what had happened for the rest of her life, never happy, never normal? She couldn’t run for ever. She didn’t want to be that person, constantly in fear of the present and the future, continually up and down, vulnerable and helpless. She wasn’t that person. She wouldn’t be. She had to face up to it.

Starting now.

What was she doing? she asked herself urgently, taking a step back from the lift, away from the edge. Where was she planning on heading? Was she really going to walk away from Josh? From Finn? Who claimed to love her? Who maybe did love her?

In the still quiet of the hall, the only sound in her ears the hammering of her heart, Georgie thought about the calm, steadfast way he’d countered all her accusations. About his strength and resilience in the face of her increasing panic. About everything he’d said and done over the last few months. If she accepted that she’d been in the grip of paranoia and doubt caused by her illness then she also had to accept that his version of events was the right one.

And God, she wanted it to be. She had to take a chance on them. She wanted to take a chance on them. Because she loved him back. He was the man she’d imagined him to be. She hadn’t got that wrong. The happiness she’d felt hadn’t been an illusion. Nor had any of the feelings she had before she’d left Paris. Everything had been real. Her hopes and dreams still lay within her grasp if only she was brave enough to grab them.

She would take control of this thing winding its wicked tendrils around her thoughts and emotions, she promised herself as she blew her nose and set her jaw. Come hell or high water, she would beat it. She’d seek help and go back on the medication.

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