Ripple_Persy & Sully by Marianne Knightly

Author:Marianne Knightly
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter Six

For Persy, the next few weeks were a revelation. She and Sully spent a lot of time together, whenever their schedules allowed. They slept together, usually at his place—seriously, his bed was fantastic—but they’d yet to have sex again.

He paid a lot of attention to her in bed—a lot—and she returned the favor, but he never went further than that. When she’d questioned him on it, he’d only said, “I’m building us to that point.”

Did he need more time to accept her now that he knew about her past? It didn’t seem like it. He was affectionate and caring, just not fully physical.

She wondered if he was holding back because he’d decided to go back to Ireland and just hadn’t shared it yet. It would be something he’d do, holding off on sex because he might feel he could be taking advantage of her if they had it.

For her, the weeks with him—easy dinners, full nights when they were both off work—were nothing like she’d experienced before. Comparing Sully and Tom might not be right, yet she’d had so little relationship experience with men that it was hard for her to do anything but.

Tom hadn’t been a bad man or cruel one, at least not until the end. He was too young to marry, just as she’d been. Some people married young and it worked out. They just weren’t one of those pairs.

With Sully, things were different in so many ways. Little ways. She talked more, for one. She hadn’t talked so much in all her life, but couldn’t say she minded it. She and Tom had talked, of course, but never like this. Never to learn everything there was to know about the other. She and Tom had grown up together. She supposed they’d just taken advantage of that fact and assumed they’d both known ‘enough’ about the other.

What she was learning now, was that there wasn’t ‘enough’ to learn. Because people always changed, there would always be something else, something new about the other person to discover. Maybe in her marriage, as both she and Tom had changed, neither of them had learned those changes about the other. With Sully, she didn’t think she’d ever reach that peak where she knew everything, and she hoped he felt the same way.

Sully might be holding them back, taking the high road, or being the mature one at the moment, but he was also taking care with her. After their first date and the day after, she’d decided she really liked Sully.

Now, she worried she might be falling in love with him, and she was terrified.

Terrified of what might happen if he left Valleria.

Terrified that if he did leave, she’d never find a relationship like this—one that was accepting and caring and loving—again.

Terrified that to keep this relationship, she might start considering going back to Ireland permanently, too.

The last also filled her with pain. Deep, gut-clenching, physical pain.

It wasn’t just facing the people in her past that made her ambivalent about going back.

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