Secrets Within Us by A.M. McCoy

Author:A.M. McCoy [McCoy, A.M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2024-09-04T00:00:00+00:00

Six hours of backbreaking work numbed my brain and wreaked havoc on my body as I trudged back up the steps to the cabin. It was one am, and I’d watched the lights turn out in the living room hours ago and it had taken all I had inside of me to not come back then, sliding into bed against Hadley’s warm body and using my body to distract her from all of my inadequacies.

Instead, I’d forced myself to stay outside in the cold for hours more until I was dead on my feet. I silently entered the house and motioned for Dev to stay where he was on the couch as I kicked off my boots and shed the layers of my protective clothing. The fire burned brightly, warming the living space, and casting a bright warm glow over the area, highlighting the beautiful woman who had stolen my desire to live alone in quiet torture like I had been doing for the last four years.

Hadley sat in the chair she loved in the corner by the fire, with her head tilted to the side and her knees to her chest, covered by the warm blanket I’d covered her with the first night she sat down there with me. She was asleep and my body ached to feel hers against it as I watched her silently.

“Fucking hell,” I muttered and took off my shirt until I stood before her in only a pair of jeans and socks and slowly slid my arms under her body. She startled in her sleep, instinctively wrapping her arms around my neck at the sensation of being lifted as her eyes fluttered open and looked up at me in the darkness.

“Kip.” She whispered, looking down at my bare chest and then back up into my eyes.

“I’m sorry,” I said, unable to offer anything else. “Let me hold you tonight.” I implored her, fearing that she would tell me to go to hell and deny me what I unreasonably asked of her. Instead, she just sighed and laid her head on my shoulder, taking a deep breath against my neck.

“I missed you.” She breathed, and I could hear the gloom in her voice.

“I shouldn’t have left. I just… wanted to give you space.” As I cleared the top of the stairs and walked us into my bedroom, I elaborated, “But I can’t stay away. Something about you pulls me in.”

“You say that like it’s a bad thing.” She stated sadly as I gently laid her down in the center of my bed.

Our bed.

If she wasn’t in it, I knew it would never beckon to me again.

“I know.” Shedding my jeans, I nestled beside her and drew her body snugly against mine. “I don’t mean to.”

“You can’t help if that’s how you feel.” She replied, settling her head on my chest and taking a deep breath. “I’ve never mattered to another human being even one time in my life, I shouldn’t hope to start now.”

“I don’t want you to leave.

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