Twenty-Four Hours (Shattered Boundaries Book 1) by Anthony Carolyn

Author:Anthony, Carolyn [Anthony, Carolyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ophelia Bell
Published: 2017-06-30T07:00:00+00:00

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I’ll be back, baby...and you better be ready.

The pounding in Jake’s head wouldn’t let up. His brain felt like it was pushing through his fucking cranium. How could he spare her a trip back to a painful past, which was a given if he told her how bad Maddelyn actually was. He wanted Eve, but he had to take care of his daughter first.

“Is it someone else?”

Eve’s cracked voice jarred him out of painful thoughts and he spun towards her. “What? What the hell are you talking about?”

“Please, at least tell me that you didn’t betray me that way. Tell me you wouldn’t have risked me by sleeping with someone else and not telling me.”

“Come on, baby. No. Only you, from the second I found you again.”

Tears streamed down her cheeks.

All he wanted in that moment was to hold her—pull her back to bed, burrow under the covers and make all the pain go away.

“Then I don’t understand,” she whispered, staring out over the balcony. Jesus, she couldn’t even look at him. “I believed in you—in us. I trusted you, trusted that you meant the things you’ve said to me. I should have known better.” She turned, her bloodshot eyes meeting his. “I’ve never been good enough for you, Jake. Not when I was younger and not now that you’re actually officially free to try.”

He caught her arm and turned her around to fully face him. “Don’t ever say you’re not good enough. You know how I feel about you. Shit, I came back for you, Eve.”

“And you stopped looking for me. Jesus, Jake! Nobody ever told me you tried to find me. That you came by the house, and then you just gave up.”

“It was better for you.” He shook his head. “Your mom was just protecting you. I was in a bad place when I got back from that first tour. She could see it. Shit, Eve. I think I even showed up drunk once. You’re lucky I didn’t find you. You couldn’t have handled what I’d become. Trust me.” Memory lane definitely wouldn’t help things here. “Look, I found you now and I don’t want to lose you again.”

Eve went limp and slipped her arm out of his hold. “You’ve already lost me by not talking to me. You know the sad thing? I’d have understood. If you would have talked to me like the friend you claim I am to you, I’d have known about Maddelyn and I’d have walked away if that’s what you needed.” Her shaky voice began to even out. “And I would have never come here and allowed you to flip my entire world upside down worse than you already have.”

“You think I don’t know that? Yeah, I should have told you. And I’m very familiar with you disappearing when you think it’s best for me, which it never fucking is, by the way. It’s you protecting yourself and I get that. I put you in that space a long time ago. That’s on me.

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