The Lie by Karina Halle

Author:Karina Halle
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: romance, scotland, london, forbidden romance
Publisher: Metal Blonde Books
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Natasha

London

Present Day

I’ve never walked so fast in my life, and it’s not an easy feat when your vision is blurry from tears, your chest burning from the desperate need to cry out. Yet if I don’t walk to Baker Street station like my life depends on it, Brigs might catch up with me. And if Brigs catches up with me again, I know I’ll be powerless in his arms.

I’m already regretting it, regretting everything. The things I said—I lashed out like this was only my guilt to carry, that I was the only who lost something. I was trying to hurt him, and I don’t even know why when he’s been through so much pain already.

When he kissed me, I felt the world spin back in time, back to when I loved him. It gave me whiplash. And so much fucking fear. Fear that I would fall again. Fear that the enormity of our past would break us apart within seconds of coming together.

And I guess that kind of happened. Only it was at my hand, not his, and not fate’s. I’m finally in control.

I wish I wasn’t. I don’t always move in the right direction.

I get on the train and breathe a sigh of relief once the doors close, knowing that Brigs hasn’t come after me. It’s fairly empty, and even though my head is fuzzy and my body exhausted, I can’t help but watch a couple a few seats across from me.

The girl is petite with a blue pixie haircut and a nose ring, and she’s sitting in his lap. He looks like the typical jock you’d see in America, tanned with big muscles and a penchant for polo shirts, only I bet here he’s the captain of a cricket team or something like that.

My eyes are drawn to them, not only because of how different they both look, like if they were back in high school they definitely would not be dating, but because of how at ease they are with each other. They aren’t even talking, nor are they making out. They’re just staring at each other, smiling with their eyes, enveloped in their own beautiful world.

My heart aches so acutely, it burns.

I want that.

I need that.

I could have had that.

Twice already.

The happy couple gets off the train near my stop, so I have to stare at them in jealousy and fascination the entire time. My mind keeps circling over the look on Brig’s face when I told him we were dishonoring the dead. It’s like I slapped him as hard as I could.

And yet he still stood there, wanting us to move on, to have another chance. After everything I said and all that we’d gone through, he wanted us to start over.

Could we do that? Could we really put it all behind us and start from scratch? Forget the old love and build a new one?

I want to believe that, I truly do.

There’s just too much at stake.

It wasn’t just the guilt over Miranda and Hamish’s death that got me in the end.

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