The Love Letter by Brenna Aubrey

Author:Brenna Aubrey [Aubrey, Brenna]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Jane Austin
Publisher: Silver Griffon Associates
Published: 2013-11-02T22:00:00+00:00

I sighed, unable to sleep despite my aching fatigue, mind racing. No, I hadn’t forgiven her. I couldn’t. It hurt too much to even consider.

He had not forgiven Anne Elliot. She had used him ill, deserted and disappointed him; and worse, she had shown a feebleness of character in doing so, which his own decided, confident temper could not endure.

***

By my second date with Chloë, I knew we could never amount to anything serious. For one thing, I had less than a week left before I had to return to Colorado to finish my residency. The other reasons? I couldn’t really name them. But I promised myself that they had nothing to do with Justine.

But as I fixed myself a pot of coffee after that sleepless night, I realized with surprising clarity that all of my relationships since Justine had been similarly haunted by our past.

He had been most warmly attached to her, and had never seen a woman since whom he thought her equal…

***

I finished the novel on the plane the next day. Then I fell against the window and slept the remaining hours. I dreamt of Justine. Of the smell of her hair. Of the first time I’d kissed her, pressed up against the stacks in the back of the library. Of the first time we made love, with fierce kisses and shaking hands. In my agitation, I awoke, shifted positions, willed my restless mind to find something different to dwell on. It didn’t. I dreamt of the plans we’d made for our life after graduation. She’d applied to the law school at the University of Colorado. We’d be there, together, in the mountains. We’d start our life there, together, as husband and wife.

I dreamt of the night I’d proposed to her. The happiest night of my life. She cried when I slipped the ring on her finger.

I cried the night she gave it back. “I can’t do this,” she said. “I’m sorry. I’ve been accepted at UCLA. I’m going to live there and work in my Dad’s firm.”

My world froze. All of our hopes, plans, our future together breaking to pieces before my eyes.

“I’m sorry,” she said over and over again between sobs.

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