Surrender (The Forbidden Series Book 3) by Michelle Betham

Author:Michelle Betham [Betham, Michelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Michelle Betham
Published: 2016-03-01T08:00:00+00:00

Six

Kira

I wasn’t ready for this. I wasn’t prepared. Thinking I was, assuming I could do this after what I thought was enough time away from him; I was wrong. Because the second his piercing blue eyes meet mine I feel like someone’s punched me so hard I’m almost fighting for breath. And I squeeze Jon’s hand and I pray to God that he’ll say something and make me realise that all I’m feeling here is a faint rush of nostalgia for a life I never really got around to living.

‘Kira?’

I turn to look at the man I’m about to marry in just a matter of weeks. It’s almost the beginning of a brand new year, and I’m on the threshold of a wonderful, beautiful new life and I need to cling on to that because everything else – it wasn’t real. It wasn’t. It was fun and dangerous and exciting but, it wasn’t real. This, what I have with Jon, that’s real. That’s something that is going to last. And it may not be a life that makes my heart race faster every day; it may not be the kind of life that leaves me breathless or excited all of the time but it’s real. And that’s what I need now. I need real.

‘Don’t let him do this to us, kid.’

I rest my hand against his cheek and smile, leaning in to kiss him gently, and I pray that I’ll feel that heat, that rush of something utterly overwhelming but it doesn’t come. And I don’t even think I needed it before, we were fine – before. For over a year I’ve been happy and settled and content with everything I had. All I’d ever wanted was Jon. All I’d ever wanted was a life with him. But then Kris arrived, and with him he brought another dose of gut-wrenching reality; his appearance has made me remember why I’d needed to leave that old life behind and find something new, something different. And I just don’t know whether going back to the old has been the best thing for anyone, no matter how much I still thought I loved Jon. No matter how much he still thinks he loves me.

‘He isn’t doing anything, Jon.’

And he isn’t. This is all on me.

And I know I should ignore it.

I know I should forget and move on.

But I know now that the one thing that had really been helping me move on was the one thing I walked away from…

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