That's a Relief (Promises, Promises Book 3) by Victoria Klahr

Author:Victoria Klahr [Klahr, Victoria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Victoria Klahr
Published: 2016-06-28T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 24

Seth

I can’t marry you.

A punch to the gut would have hurt a hell of a lot less than those four words. For too much time, it feels like the wind has been knocked out of me. My knees threaten to buckle under my weight, and I keep gasping for a breath of air.

Josie reaches for me when I bend over my stomach, no longer able to hold myself together, but I shove her arm away. I just need a minute. A minute to process and figure out a way to change her mind. There has to be a reason.

But those words.

I’d expected her to push me away, but to tell me she can’t marry me…. No. I wasn’t ready for that.

“I’m so sorry, Seth—”

For some reason, those words snap me out of the pain. I straighten up and loom over her small frame. “Do not apologize to me right now, Josie.” I lean in and keep my voice low. “You go into that room intent on marrying me and come out and say you can’t. Tell me what happened.”

For the first time in so long, the hurt on her face doesn’t faze me. Of all the things she could have done to me, this is by far the worst.

“Nothing happened, Seth. I decided that now isn’t a good time to get married. We’re bickering all the time—”

“Bickering?” A surprised laugh escapes. “Are you kidding me right now?” When she straightens her shoulders and looks at me head on, I start shaking my head in disbelief. “You’re the fucking queen of lies, Josie, and the best you can come up with is that we bicker too fucking much?”

“We’ve been a mess for weeks now. Ever since you lied and didn’t tell me Michael was out of prison.”

I take a step back, running my fingers through my hair roughly. She lied about that too, then. She told me she wasn’t upset. She told me not to apologize anymore. She fucking told me to stop blaming myself. All lies.

“I don’t get it,” I whisper to myself and run a hand over my mouth. I look up at her, and she winces at whatever she sees on my face. “I thought these last few weeks have been amazing. I thought you wanted to marry me.” I’m embarrassed when my voice catches on those words.

Josie’s face softens briefly. “I did—”

“Jesus Christ, Josie,” I say through gritted teeth, pressing up against her again, my face dangerously close to hers. “How is it possible for you to keep breaking my heart? How can every word you spit out cut me so deeply?”

“I’m not trying to break your heart!”

“Then what do you call this?” My fist hits my chest for emphasis. This pain living beneath my hand is excruciating. “An hour ago I held you in my arms, knowing that despite the problems we’re facing right now, despite the fact that for the first time in a year my trust in you was questioned, we would get through anything.

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