Steele by Suzanne D. Williams

Author:Suzanne D. Williams [Williams, Suzanne D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Published: 2014-11-21T05:00:00+00:00

She wanted to cry, curl into a fetal position with her knees to her chest, and give into the grief choking her soul. But with Meghan Bellamy in the room couldn’t bring herself to act like that. She wasn’t sure what she’d be crying for anyhow. The car? It was toast. Calix? Unsure how to answer that one, she didn’t try, but the pressure of it produced a sigh.

“Thanks for coming,” she said. “I’m all right really, though my left arm’s out of use for a while. I don’t know how I’ll manage …” The doctor had put her left arm in a sling, saying it needed to be kept immobile. She wasn’t about to argue since it hurt pretty badly.

Meghan took a seat beside the bed, crossing her legs. “I imagine Calix will take care of it, and here’s a suggestion … let him. There’s something to be said for independence and something else for letting a man feel like a man, if that makes sense.”

It did, and he could certainly afford it. Plus, he was probably busy impaling himself over the accident not realizing she was doing the same.

“I should have been watching the road and not his face,” she said. “But when he asked me on a date and I refused, he looked like I’d kicked him in the …” Flynn coughed.

Meghan smiled. “Pride isn’t restricted only to certain men.” She reclined in the chair. “What I want to know is why you said no when he asked you out.”

“I should have accepted.” She heard the defeat in her own voice.

Meghan held up one hand, palm outward. “That’s not what I meant. I refused Atlas more than once.”

That was an interesting admission.

“But you need to know why you refused,” she finished.

Flynn exhaled. “I figured it wouldn’t work. We’re too different.”

Meghan didn’t speak at first, but her eyes clearly said she was thinking. She halted and inhaled. “I was attracted to Atlas from the start, but he continually stepped on my toes. Then he tried to win me over by helping everyone around me. It worked … sort of … but then again, it didn’t. Even having fallen in love with him, I couldn’t get past all the things he’d done to embrace the relationship.”

“What changed?” Flynn asked.

Meghan smiled. “Forgiveness. I learned to forgive, and he learned to accept it. There was no living without him for me, so really I had no choice.”

To see the love on Meghan’s face was proof enough of that, and Flynn’s heart warmed. “You give me hope,” she said. “But I’m not sure how Calix fits into it. He’s an attractive man, who, for some reason, I feel connected to. He’s opened up to me. It means a lot, really, that he’d tell me what he did. And truthfully, I want to say yes. I feel like all this happened for a reason …”

“I think you need to tell him that,” Meghan replied.

Tell him how she felt, open up to him like he’d done to her.

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