The Fall (The Reluctant Romantics Book 1) by Kate Stewart

Author:Kate Stewart [Stewart, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: KLS PRESS
Published: 2015-11-27T00:00:00+00:00

“Numb again. Love again. Fuck it!”—Laura (Room 212)

Dallas

Then

New York

I walked the crowded streets in absolute awe. New York! I could feel the fast pulse of the city reverberating through the air as my surroundings fascinated me. I couldn’t help but wonder what it would be like to join Dean here for medical school. I watched as people hurried along the streets while I stood and watched their progress. I felt alive with energy and could see the appeal immediately of moving to a city like this one. Suddenly, a freezing gust of air hit me, and I instantly screamed out at its arrival.

Fuck that idea.

Walking further into campus, I watched the students as they passed me and noted the dynamic of the school. It was far more fast-paced than Austin, and I had expected as much. I couldn’t keep from thinking how hard it must have been for Dean during the first few weeks. Then again, Dean had always been one to rise to any challenge. I was sure he had it well under control. It had been months since I’d seen him. He had refused to let me go until after the summer of his senior year, forgoing his typical annual trip to Spain and spending what time we had left together. We spent most of our days hanging out with our friends, eating fattening food at the lake, and having amazing sex. Every night he left me, he would tell me how much he loved me and that he couldn’t wait for our future. His promise that he would be at my school the day I graduated to propose seemed like one he would keep.

Even after I agreed to make things work with the distance between us, after Christmas break, I’d pulled away from him, insisting we try it without each other, asking for time to adjust to life without him. He’d assumed the worst and stopped trying altogether.

It had been three months since I’d heard from him. He’d just stopped calling. After several unanswered calls, I had to go to him. I had to tell him I’d made a mistake, make it known I needed him, that I couldn’t breathe.

My classwork was suffering, and I couldn’t concentrate. I was furious that he hadn’t bothered to call me, or at least let me know that it was all a lie, that I had trusted his promise in vain. At the same time, I couldn’t believe it. I refused to believe it, not with the way he looked at me, touched me. Dean was my salvation. I just needed to see him, to touch him, to know he was real. That what we had was real.

“You looking for a class?” a male voice asked from my right as I stared up at the bulletin board. I had no clue how to find him. I went to his apartment first, and his roommate Kyle told me he was in class all day, so I selfishly went to his school. I couldn’t wait.

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