This Is Love by Nana Malone

Author:Nana Malone
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-06-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 2

“Aniyah? Sweetheart, are you in here?” Samantha called out to her.

The door to her bedroom opened. Aniyah looked up from her tearstained pillow and tried to speak. Her voice was gone. So much crying and screaming through the night had exhausted her both mentally and physically.

“Sweetheart. I drove through the night. Oh, honey, stop crying, I promise you will be okay.” Samantha walked over to the bed. Aniyah reached for her best friend and wept in her arms. She cried the last of her tears. At least for the night.

“I’m sorry you had to leave your retreat. I’m so sorry,” Aniyah said.

“Don’t be sorry. I was sick of those meditating robots. I’m just glad I broke the rules and checked my messages. Did you turn your phone off after? I’ve been calling.”

Aniyah nodded that she had before she dropped back in exhaustion on her pillow. Her bed was covered in crumpled tissues. Her face was swollen from her grief.

“Okay, start from the beginning.” Samantha tossed her purse aside. She sat on the bed as a doctor would for any despondent patient. But there was nothing Samantha could do to fix this. There was nothing anyone could do.

“I told you already. He called off the wedding, Sam.”

“You had a fight. That happens. He has the wedding jitters or something,” Samantha reasoned.

“No. No. No! This wasn’t just a fight. He wanted out. He acted like I had forced him to propose. I feel so stupid. Three years with that asshole and he all but accused me of dragging him to the altar. I feel like someone died. It hurts in my stomach, my head, my heart.” She clutched her chest.

“Hush now,” Samantha said. She looked down to Aniyah’s lap. “What is this?”

Aniyah wiped her tears. She couldn’t speak. Her thoughts were clogged with emotion.

“Oh, my, this is beautiful. Did you do this?”

The gold necklace had four pearls on it. When she got home she’d spent the first six hours working on it. Being busy helped. It wasn’t the best work she’d done, but it was nice enough to preserve her mother’s pearls. “They were supposed to be on my wedding dress.”

The tears came once more. Samantha knocked away the snot tissues and eased into bed next to her. She lay on her side and looked down at Aniyah. “It’s okay. I promise we will figure it out.”

“I thought he loved me. I thought he was the one. He’s right. I’ve been the one pushing. For everything. What is wrong with me?”

“It’s not a bad thing to fall in love. It just a hard thing to stay in love. A man has to want it in his life. If he doesn’t, then it’s best you find out now. Right?”

“I guess,” she sniffed. “I put everything into this relationship. What am I going to do now?”

Aniyah had dumped her entire savings into the wedding. The best acting jobs she gotten were through Denton’s contacts. After the proposal she switched gears and taken some voice-over classes.

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