Pieces of Us by Hannah Downing

Author:Hannah Downing
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Omnific Publishing
Published: 2011-09-25T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

The Safe Coffin

He was right. I’d pushed him away, over and over. I’d been there for my father as much as I could, but I’d neglected my husband. And I never really let him back in after that. I was too afraid of how much he was capable of hurting me.

“No! Charlotte, no!” Cameron took both of my trembling hands in his. “The betrayal was completely my fault. You needed me to be there for you, and I wasn’t. I should have been there, even when you pushed me away. I should have stayed. There’s no excuse for my behavior.”

I was sure he meant the words he was saying, but they didn’t change our situation. Cameron had tried to support me, and I’d pushed him to the point where he didn’t even believe I loved him anymore.

“Charlotte, say something,” he begged.

“I’m sorry.”

“You have nothing to apologize for. I was the one who went to Lucy.”

At the mention of Lucy’s name, the guilt I was feeling dried up. How could I have forgotten about her? No matter what I did to him, no matter how hard I’d pushed him away, he shouldn’t have sought out my best friend.

“Lucy,” I said, my voice cold and hard as I wiped the tears from my cheeks. I moved away from him, standing up and ripping my hands from his.

He sighed and leaned against the log with his knees bent. “Do you want to know about her? My association with her is not what you think it was.”

I balked at the word “association.” It was too cold a term for an act of such intimacy.

I turned to face him. “I’ve come this far.” I knew I needed to hear this, but I was terrified of the emotional ramifications.

Cameron nodded and patted the ground next to him, but I shook my head and sat on the log, as far from him as I could get. He gave me a sad smile.

“Lucy was…a distraction. She wanted me and made me feel needed. She was someone to talk to, someone to listen who wouldn’t push me away. That’s all she was — wh-where are you going?” he asked as I stood up, brushed the dirt off my jeans, and started back into the trees.

“I thought I was here to listen to your version of what happened between us,” I said, turning back to glare at him, my arms over my chest. “I’m not going to sit here and listen to your lies.”

“I’m not lying!” Cameron protested, scrambling to his feet and coming toward me.

“You chose her over me!” I threw my arms up in the air. My voice echoed around the trees and Cameron looked at me, shocked. “You stood in front of me, while we were still married, and told me you cared about her. You can’t tell me now that she didn’t mean anything to you!”

Cameron sighed and ran his hands through his hair, tugging on it before pacing through the clearing. His face fell into shadow as moved under the trees.

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