Mr. Second Chance: An Enemies to Lovers Romance by Annabelle Love

Author:Annabelle Love [Love, Annabelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-04-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Brie

Breakfast with my sisters left me feeling off. I can’t fully explain why.

Logically, everything Mary-Jane said makes sense. In fact, her advice sounded like something I would say to any one of them if the situation was reversed.

Of course, they don’t know the whole story.

I step into my house, far too aware of how quiet and empty it is. The pillows on the couch are still rumpled and indented from where Eric and I slept.

Don’t do it, I say to myself as an urge overtakes me. I don’t listen to myself even for an instant as I flop down on the couch, pressing my face into the pillows. It still smells like him.

The scent of him shouldn’t bring me so much comfort, yet here we are.

But why do I feel like I shouldn’t take comfort from this in the first place? Eric and I have something. We haven’t really talked about what it is, exactly, but that discussion will come. It has to. It’ll probably be on the wings of a much more complicated conversation.

I roll onto my back and place a hand over my lower belly. To anyone else, I don’t look like I’ve given birth. As soon as I left the hospital, I drove myself insane to get my normal body back. It’s not that I hated the way my stomach sagged and protruded, not at all. In fact, I liked it.

It was proof of what I’d given to the world even though my daughter wasn’t with me anymore. But if anyone else saw me like that, they’d know at once.

Even now, my stomach is never perfectly flat. There are tiny hints of proof that I once grew and carried life inside of me, but I’m the only one who can see it. Eric saw me completely naked and didn’t notice anything.

Then again, it’s not as if he did a full-body inspection as if I were a horse at auction. And it was dark. Maybe if he had a chance to look closer, I mean really look, he might have figured it out.

I’ve already decided to tell him, but now I realize I have to tell him sooner rather than later. There are too many lies and half-truths surrounding my pregnancy. Too many to keep in line now that we’re spending so much time together.

If he and I are going to start something, whatever that something may be, I want the air between us to be clear. I can’t walk into any kind of relationship with him knowing I’m being dishonest. It’s not fair and it’s not right.

Restless energy whorls through me. It’s my own fault for thinking about the possibility that Eric and I could be together. For real.

Ryan was the first real relationship I had after everything that happened in high school. I didn’t date very much. I didn’t want to.

Now, when I look back on everything, my relationship with Ryan was like bread, water, and salt. It had everything necessary to survive but there wasn’t anything else to it.

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