The Billionaire's Intern - Part 4 by Maisey Yates

Author:Maisey Yates
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Logan punched the bag in the middle of the room, his muscles screaming, blood dripping from his knuckles, splattering onto the bag, rolling down his forearms.

He didn’t care. He didn’t care at all.

He’d been in here for hours. Sit-ups, pull-ups, rope climbing. Trying to burn through the pain. Trying to make his body hurt more than his heart. Until sweat ran down his face, giving him the feeling of tears without getting the satisfaction of shedding any.

He’d cried every last tear he’d ever had on an island far off the coast of South America. And none since. Not since the night Kelly died. No since the night he’d helped her die.

The night he’d killed her.

It always came back to that.

Logan, please.

To that moment. The last person who’d come on board with him, dying instead of surviving.

“Fuck,” he said, dropping to his knees. She was supposed to survive. She’d made it to shore with him. His redemption. She’d been his redemption and then…he’d taken his own salvation when she begged.

But there was no glory in it. In fulfilling her final request. It had left him with nothing but an empty hole in his chest. It had left him alone. It had changed everything in him.

“It should have been me,” he said. “It should have been!” He shouted the last part and it echoed off the walls. But there was no answer to it. There never had been.

You never left the island.

No. He hadn’t. How the hell could he? They hadn’t left. His friends, the crew, Kelly. Lost to the accident and he remained. How did that work? He hadn’t been worth it. He had never done anything to deserve to escape the fate everyone else had suffered. Not before and not since. He leaned forward, his forehead resting on the carpet, his breathing hard, uneven.

He was alone.

Except for Addison. Addison had reached into the darkness. Addison had touched him. Addison had tried to save him.

But he didn’t deserve her. She was a part of a life he couldn’t have. She made him forget.

He couldn’t forget, because if he did…if he did it was as if they never existed. He had to live in those moments, exist in them always because they could never do anything else.

Some would call that being a martyr, but he wasn’t dying for a cause. He was dying for his own sins. Again and again.

Losing Addison was a fresh death. He deserved it.

And more.

He could never make amends.

You never left the island.

And he never could. He never could.

He closed his eyes, and all he could see was a hand reaching through the dark. A hand he couldn’t take. No matter how much he wanted to.

He gritted his teeth against a new wave of pain as it washed over him.

He’d imagined he’d left all feeling behind on that island. He’d come home and been nothing more than a shell. Hadn’t wanted anything. Not comfort. Not the touch of a woman.

But it was all back now.

And he knew, beyond anything, that he loved Addison Treffen.

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