Unforgiven: Sins and Secrets Series of Duets, Book 2 by Willow Winters

Author:Willow Winters
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-06-19T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

Jules

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Intentions -- cruel, helpless, hopeful,

They come in different shades.

They leave the nights with bright light,

And sharpen the dullest blades.

They bend your will and change your plans,

And make you do bad things.

They don’t change the outcome,

Nor stop what justice brings.

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My thumbnail nervously scrapes against my fingernails one at a time. I don’t have polish on, although I wish I did so I could pick it off. I’ve always done this. A nervous habit, I suppose.

My eyes drift back to Mason. His head’s laid back against the headrest, and he lets it jostle as the limo drives over a speed bump. His hands are clasped in his lap, the knuckles torn and bloodied and his eyes are focused on the roof of the cabin.

His cheek is already bruised. There’s a crack on the left side of his lips. It splinters from the top all the way down to the bottom and my fingers itch to touch it. To comfort him.

He hasn’t said a word. Silence is the only thing that accompanies us.

I swallow thickly as his head rolls to the side and he stares at me. A burning sensation prickles over my skin and begs me to look away, but I can’t. It’s hopeless.

He licks his lower lip, the tip of his tongue sliding down the cut as he sets his hand on my thigh. I watch as he swallows and then breathes in heavily, all the while holding my gaze.

“Are you okay?” he asks me in a voice so low, deep and heavy and riddled with pain.

The lump in my throat gets larger as the memory comes back.

I shake my head immediately, closing my eyes only to recall the look in Liam’s eyes. I shudder and wrap my arms around myself. Mason immediately pulls me into him, hushing me and holding me. He never fails to comfort me. I breathe easier enveloped in his warmth and resting my head on his chest.

He rocks me softly back and forth for a moment. As I calm down, the guilt weighs heavily on me. Both times now that I’ve tried to leave Mason, I’ve come to face regret and remorse for my actions. How is it so that I blame myself? That I resent myself for leaving a man I know logically I should abandon.

“Why were you out there?” Mason asks me, and it only solidifies the offense. I don’t answer. Instead I look away, my cheek still resting on his shoulder and his arms still around me.

I hear him swallow and let out a strangled breath before rocking me again ever so slightly. He doesn’t let go of me though, and he doesn’t question me again.

“I’m sorry,” I whisper as I watch the lights of the city slip past us in a blur on our way back to his home.

“Are you?” his deep voice rumbles the question. There’s no animosity there, no curiosity either. Simply a flat question devoid of all the emotion he just gave me.

As fucked up as it is, I answer him truthfully, “I am.

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