Worth The Wait by Claudia Connor

Author:Claudia Connor [Connor, Claudia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: No Publisher
Published: 2017-01-09T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

“YES.”

She jerked at his voice, not noticing that he’d come to stand right behind her, close enough to bury his nose in her hair, trail his lips along her shoulder if he lowered his head.

Neither spoke for the longest time, just watched the few bits of white swirl and sink. Pieces of their past.

“It was a good memory,” he finally said, speaking softly like if they stayed quiet they could keep that moment from their past in the here and now.

“Yes,” she whispered. “We had a lot of those.” She replaced the snow globe carefully and turned, a real smile on her pretty lips. “I don’t think I’ve ever gone so long without getting dressed.”

He smiled too. Their first shared smile in so long. Longer than the ten years they’d been apart. “A damn good memory.” The two of them locked away in that hotel room oblivious to the world outside buried in white. Going from bed to shower to wall, making love, eating, making love again.

It seemed they could step right back into that, but bizarre that they’d even have to step back. He’d concluded over the years that there was never one reason things ended between two people who loved each other. It was rarely simple or one sided. Looking back, it wasn’t clear. Nothing had been clear to him then.

Maybe it had been clearer for her.

A moment passed, searching her eyes, all the feelings of the past and present welling up inside him. It might not be the same, but it was all still there. There was something there for her too. She couldn’t hide her feelings for him; they rolled off of her in waves. There was desire in her eyes too, he could see it, but with it there was also pain and anger. And sadness.

She swallowed nervously and looked away. “I’m not even sure why I’m here.”

Funny, it didn’t matter. It was enough that she was. “Do you want to sit?”

She didn’t answer but followed him to the couch, sitting on the opposite end with enough space for a third to sit between them. They looked at each other several times, then away. God. Where did they even begin?

She huffed out a brittle laugh and shook her head.

He shook his, too. “I don’t know where to start.”

She looked down at her hands in her lap. “Neither do I.”

“Who was the baby?”

Her dark gaze flew to his. The pain he saw there was a stab to his heart, but he wouldn’t apologize for going straight to what was important. Mia was too important to sit and talk about things that didn’t matter.

She rolled her lips together, her teeth biting into the soft, plump skin. Deciding if she would tell him? He knew her well enough to know it wasn’t as simple as a photo of a friend’s child. His mind raced with possibilities. The most logical being she’d been married even though she wasn’t now.

“I adopted a child. A little girl. I had her for nine months.

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