The Only One for Me by Greenleigh Adams

Author:Greenleigh Adams [Adams, Greenleigh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-08-27T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

Maxine

I didn’t like that Austin went for a run with Daisey. It wasn’t as if I wanted to accompany him on his jog. I certainly didn’t want to break that kind of sweat. But I didn’t want him to be with her.

It wasn’t so much that I didn’t want him around another woman. He dated plenty of girls. I just didn’t want him spending so much time with that one.

He looked at her----well, like he looked at me. He has this achy, kind of suppressed longing and desire aura that I had always known was there. I always knew he wanted more from me than friendship. He’d said it plenty of times. I used to think he was joking, but the older I’d gotten, the more I’d considered that there really was some hidden agenda there.

Yes, I went along with his silly proposition. If neither of us was married by the time we were thirty, we agreed to marry each other and have a family. I still had nearly four years until that expiration date. I never really thought I would be in that position. I figured I would find the man I was supposed to spend my life with before then.

But I hadn’t really considered that Austin might find a woman he wanted to be with instead of me. I knew I was his first choice, but if I found someone else, I just figured he would find someone also. I always assumed I would find someone before him—again, because I figured he would continue to make himself available for me.

Perhaps I was selfish or just blind. I was unsure what exactly my issue was. I didn’t want to be his girlfriend, but I didn’t want him to be in a serious relationship with someone else either. And I guess for the first time ever, I could see him pursuing a long-term relationship with a woman other than me.

Daisey was smart, beautiful, established in her career, and most likely looking to settle down and start a family. She was older than Cody and already had the mother hen instincts, so I figured she wasn’t interested in wasting her time with someone who was afraid of commitment.

Austin didn’t shy from commitment. He was loyal, devoted, responsible, and no doubt would be faithful to whoever he fell in love with. He would be a wonderful husband and father one day.

I just could never see myself as his wife or the mother of his children. It already felt as if we were related. We lived together now, but we had separate bedrooms, and that’s how I preferred it. I admit he was an attractive man. Tall with an athletic build, smokey gray eyes, and shaggy brown hair with just a hint of curl.

Most women would love to be the object of his desire and would change places with me in a heartbeat, but I just couldn’t go there. Besides the fact that I didn’t have that kind of spark with him,

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