Saved by Beth Yarnall

Author:Beth Yarnall
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-940811-91-8
Publisher: Story Siren Publishing

“Lucas?”

“Hmm?”

“I’m okay, really.”

“Maybe, but I’m not. Are you hungry? It’s been hours since we grabbed those burgers.”

“Sure.” Mi climbed off him and watched him rise from the bath, the water sheeting down the hard planes of his body.

She’d tried to reach out to him, tried the method she knew best. There was a lot to make up for. Certainly more than a hand job could fix. She should tell him she loved him, but every time she’d opened her mouth something else had come out. So she’d gone back to the tried and true, the one thing between them that was easy and honest. And he’d rejected her.

She sat in the water long after he’d left the room, long after it had grown cold. Regret crept over her like a fog, obscuring all of her good intentions. She should never have gotten involved with Lucas and yet couldn’t see how she could have stopped it. They’d brushed against each other like waves lapping the shore, leaving a piece of themselves and taking a little something from each other every time they’d touched, every time they’d made love. Until they’d taken too much and left behind more than they’d intended.

And now she didn’t know where she ended and he began. He’d weathered the worst with her and was still here, battered, maybe a little broken, but still here. But for how long? How long until something else happened? She’d already gone too far, had drawn a line he couldn’t cross. How long until he stopped trying to cross it and just walked away?

With a groan she rose out of the water and caught her reflection in the mirror over the vanity. She climbed out of the tub and walked dripping across the room for a better look. Oh, God. No wonder Lucas and Jason had freaked out. She leaned forward for a better look, hardly feeling the chill of the marble counter.

The awful look on her mother’s face as her hands had pressed against Mi’s neck came back full bore. Her eyes burning with hate, her teeth set hard to the task, the dots of spittle on her chin, her face compressed with the effort… that was not her mother, not the woman who had cared for and loved her. Where had that mother gone?

She eased back from the mirror.

“I ordered—” Lucas paused in the doorway, his gaze catching on hers in the mirror. “I got pizza,” he finally finished.

“Okay.”

He’d dressed in dark jeans and a black t-shirt, his feet bare. “It’s a nice night. We could eat outside.”

“I’d like that.” She watched him leave, then sagged against the counter as soon as he’d gone.

She’d put the wall between them, she knew. But she couldn’t take back the things she’d said or pretend she hadn’t meant them. He hadn’t asked any questions… yet. Soon he’d unload his questions and she’d stack them up with all of the others, building that wall higher until they wouldn’t be able to see each other over the top.

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