Shattered by Pamela Sparkman

Author:Pamela Sparkman [Sparkman, Pamela]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance
Published: 2014-10-13T04:00:00+00:00

'Cause it's you and me and all of the people with nothing to do, nothing to lose

And it's you and me and all of the people

And I don't know why I can't keep my eyes off of you…

She was beautiful, and perfect. God, how I wanted her to be mine.

“I’ll never get used to this,” Maggie whispered, chopped and breathy, tearing her eyes away from mine.

“Used to what?”

“You.” She stood, took a step back, and extended her arms between us, creating distance I didn’t want. “I’ll never get used to someone treating me the way you do.” She shook her head like she was trying to dislodge a memory or something.

I closed my eyes and tried to pull myself together. “Maggie,” I said, “it kills me to think that anyone would ever get a piece of you without appreciating what they were getting first.” I opened my eyes and pinned her with my stare, daring her to look away from me. “Don’t do it again. Don’t give away pieces of yourself to anyone who hasn’t earned them.”

Setting the guitar down, I stood and took a step forward to close the gap she’d created. “You need to get used to it. I don’t want to be just someone to you. I want to be the only one. And I promise you, Maggie Malone, if you let me, I’ll earn all of the pieces of you before I take a single one.”

“You’re too late.”

My heart felt like it had been dropped kicked across the fucking room. “Don’t say that. Don’t say I’m too late.” I inched closer and cupped her face in my palms.

“I meant that you’ve already earned pieces of me.”

“What pieces?”

She looked up at me with teary eyes. “All of them.”

“All of them,” I repeated so low and so soft I couldn’t be sure she even heard me. “Well, that’s definitely a good start.”

“You can kiss me now,” she murmured.

“Now, there you go again being bossy.”

“Or I could kiss you.”

“Well, now you’re just trying to be dominating.”

“You can be quite exasperating sometimes.”

“You can be quite perfect, all the time.” I leaned in, pressed my lips to hers, and whispered over them. “I am your soft place to land, sweetheart.”

Maggie gasped, and time stood still. That precious commodity that was slipping through my fingers seemed to pause just for us. I let the rest of the world fall away. “I have something for you too,” I breathed in her ear. Inside my pocket was a flat shiny piece of silver. I pulled it out, opened her hand, and set it in her palm. “I didn’t know what to get you for Christmas. Everything I saw in the stores didn’t seem right or good enough. I’ve had this since I was a little boy. It was my grandmother’s. She gave it to me right before she passed away; told me that one day I’d want to give it to someone special. It’s sort of been my good luck charm. Now I want you to have it.

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