Wave of Memories by Addison Fox

Author:Addison Fox [Fox, Addison]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PENGUIN group
Published: 2012-04-02T14:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

Meg struggled to sit past the heavy weight of emotion and regret that lay on her chest.

“What’s wrong?”

Tears filled her eyes and strangled her throat as she moved to the side of the bed. It wasn’t far enough, but the cool air that swirled around her after moving away from the heat of his body gave her room to breathe.

“I ruined so much. I thought I could see past it if given the opportunity. But I can’t.”

“Meg.” He placed his large hand on the base of her spine and she leaped forward at his touch, moving off the bed and across the room.

Whirling on him, she couldn’t hold back the question. “How’d we end up here?”

“What’s that supposed to mean?” She saw the anger in his eyes and, underneath, the hurt as he came to a sitting position on the side of the bed.

It was that hurt that had drawn her to him in the first place. That sad, aching sense that he was lost and lonely somewhere in the deepest part of his soul.

The questions sprang to her lips. For her or for him, she didn’t know.

“How can I still need you? Want you? How can I want something I ruined so very long ago? How did we manage to come back to this place?”

“We haven’t been in this place in a hell of a long time.”

“But it’s there. There is something inevitable about us.”

Meg moved to a small chair on the far side of the room and sat on the edge, wrapping her arms around herself. A jumble of frantic thoughts fought for space in her head and she looked for the right words to explain what she meant.

“The first time I met you, you were a boy.”

“And then I wasn’t.”

“No, you weren’t. But that first time. When I was asked to intercede to help your father. You were just this sweet little amusement. A small boy with the mind of a scholar and the heart of a warrior.”

“I was a scrawny, know-it-all brat.”

“I recall it rather differently. But imagine my surprise fifteen years later when your father called me back once more to offer aide and I saw the man you’d become. I saw you with a woman’s eyes.”

“I thought you were beautiful, that first time I met you. A vision I could never let go of, no matter how hard I tried. I was too young to understand what it meant, but I thought you were perfect.”

Even with the distance that separated them across the large room, the unerring focus of his blue gaze penetrated through her. “It’s always been there,” Meg whispered.

“So what is the problem? Why are you upset?”

“Because I ruined us once. Why should this time be any different?”

* * *

Eris paced the length of her small living room. She’d never been fond of waiting, preferring action to stillness. “It should be over by now.”

Tyrus glanced up from where he tapped at his cell phone. “I don’t know why you sent them out in the first place.

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