The Wolf and the Sheep by Penelope Sky

Author:Penelope Sky [Sky, Penelope]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-17T18:30:00+00:00

We ate at his dining table, enjoying the food that was delivered to the apartment. We couldn’t go out anymore because we couldn’t be seen together. Our time together was spent in this apartment, mainly in his bed. It started to feel like an affair as time passed. It started off as a relationship—but now it was just a secret.

He stopped eating and set his fork down, his eyes filled with troubling thoughts. He didn’t wear that handsome smile or show affection in his eyes. Something weighed his shoulders down, haunted him.

I knew what it was. And I knew what was coming.

“I can’t do this anymore…” He lifted his gaze and looked at me, apology in his eyes. “You used to be mine, and now I have to share you. Every time we’re in bed together, I have to see the ring on your finger. Every time we’re in public, I have to pretend to be just your friend…”

Even though I knew this was coming, it still hurt.

“I know you aren’t sleeping with him and I trust you, but I still feel like the other man.”

I wanted to fight for us, to tell him nothing had changed. But I cared too much about him to persuade him to stay with me. All of his points were valid. He wanted the real thing, a real relationship. I couldn’t give him that.

“We can never go out to dinner, hang out with my friends…do anything. And I met this woman…”

Now it really started to hurt.

“I told her I was seeing someone, so nothing has happened. But being around her makes me realize what I want… I’m sorry.”

He wanted her—not me.

“I wish things could be different.”

I wasn’t going to cry over a man. I’d cried so much in the last few weeks that my tear ducts were spent. He wasn’t worth my heartache. If he wanted to be with someone else, then it was over before I even saw him this evening. Maybe Maverick was right. Maybe this man wasn’t good enough for me. If he really loved me, he would love me despite the restrictions…or he would fight for me. Dante wanted to do neither. “I understand, Dante. You’re completely right. This isn’t a relationship, it’s an affair.” It was just sex behind closed doors. All the romance died when I forced Dante to be a secret. I swallowed my pain and my pride and just let it be.

He rested his hand on mine. “I really am sorry. I know you’ve been through so much—”

“Really, I’m fine. Please don’t feel bad for me.” I looked him in the eye to give my words more credibility. “This is my life, not yours. There’s no reason for you to drown just because I’m obligated to go down with the ship.”

Dante studied me, true pain in his eyes. He clearly hated this conversation, hated to hurt me.

Despite what he’d just done, I knew he was a good guy. He would make a woman very happy. He would be a faithful husband and a good father.

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