Red_Fiery Finale by Allison White

Author:Allison White [White, Allison]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Limitless Publishing, LLC
Published: 2019-04-08T23:00:00+00:00

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The ride to her apartment complex is extra-long, prolonged by tension and unspoken words. The only sound is the thunder and rain patter as it began to pour ten minutes into the long drive. I do a great job of keeping my face clear of any emotions. She’s already played with them more than I can count. I don’t need to add another time to the ever-growing list.

She keeps silent and does an uncharacteristically bad job of giving off a blank expression. She peers out of the windshield with dimmed blue eyes and a frown that tugs at my heart strings. The urge to reach over and soothe her with a stroke of my thumb against her embarrassed, flushed cheek is so irresistible that I have to grip the steering wheel harder to keep myself from doing so.

I hate this space between us, how easy it is for her to push from me—from us. Why can’t she just want me as badly as I want her? My stomach rumbles then tightens. What if she doesn’t even love me? What if she’s just playing with me yet again, and I’m too stupidly in love with her to see it?

“You do love me, don’t you?” I blurt out.

Her head snaps toward me, and the shock and confusion are clear on her mouth curled down into a frown. “What? Of course I love you. Why would you ask a question like that?”

“How can’t I?” I say breathlessly, pathetically smiling softly. I tilt my head in an angle and look at her through my peripheral vision. “You ignore me, see other guys, run out on me after we…” I pause and close my eyes, exhausted and just hurt. “Sometimes I think I love you too much…”

Her sharp gasp is louder than the thunder. “No…no, I love you, Noah. I love you so much, it should be freaking illegal. I—I love you more than I should be allowed to.”

I smile sadly, shaking my head. “It doesn’t feel like that sometimes. Not when you do stuff like this.” My breathing stammers when I feel her small palm gently touch my jaw. I clench it under her hand and listen to the thunder and the whisper of her breathing against my cheek.

“I don’t ever mean to hurt you,” she says softly, her voice trembling.

My eyes open to find her vivid blue eyes boring through mine. “Yet you do it anyway.” The crack in my voice is too much to cope with, and I close my eyes and turn away, turn away from her loving touch. I need to find a way to breathe or I think I’ll pass out.

“Noah, please…” she says, and I feel her fingertips on my shoulder, but I just shake my head. I can’t listen to her lie to me, not right now. I feel the shock and sense her fingertips hovering over me for what feels like an eternity before I hear the door slam shut.

I face the steering wheel, force myself not to run after her and comfort her.

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