Bittersweet Catastrophe (Second Chances #2.5) by Maureen Mayer

Author:Maureen Mayer [Mayer, Maureen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B00MSV66UC
Publisher: Maureen Mayer
Published: 2014-08-15T23:00:00+00:00

An unnatural stillness encompassed us as we drove home, and it hadn’t left us as we stepped through the front door. I quietly shut it behind me, the wood creaking as I leaned the weight of my body against it, and watched Liberty make herself comfortable on the couch, flipping the TV on as if the last few hours never happened. Her eyes were still swollen and puffy, evidence of her heart breaking piece by fucking piece, but I knew it had nothing to do with the cancer. It was the possibility of losing the two precious lives we had waited so patiently for that had her warring with her emotions. Two lives we might very well have ripped away from us.

Deafening silence hung heavily in the air, but for how long, I couldn’t have been sure. It was as if a wall had been built up between us the second we received the devastating news, and just the thought of bringing it up had my heart thundering in my chest.

I swallowed the lump in my throat, and sank down into the soft, worn leather of the couch beside her. There really was no easy way to do this. “We need to talk.”

“Talk about what?” The words came out lukewarm and unfeeling.

Talk about what? So we were playing that game. Wonderful. “Liberty,” I said, stressing her name. She was attempting to put up that wall between us, but I wouldn’t let that happen.

“What? There’s nothing to talk about, Shayne, so just drop it.” She went back to flipping through the channels. This was her third time around, and I couldn’t stand her so blatantly ignoring me. I snatched the remote from her and chucked it across the room, shattering the vase that held the dried sunflowers she carried on our wedding day. Shit.

“What the hell?”

I closed my eyes, rubbing the dull ache in my temples. I hadn’t meant for that to happen, but at least it got her attention. “Just shut up and listen to me for a minute. All right? Can you give me that?”

She crossed her arms over her chest defiantly. I knew this wasn’t going to be a pleasant conversation, but her attitude wasn’t helping any.

“Look,” I said, pulling her legs out from under her and placing them across my lap. I dug my fingers into her calves, rubbing out the tension and hopefully coaxing her to open up to me. “I can’t read your mind, sweetheart. I need to know what you’re thinking. What would posses you to even consider putting off treatment? It’s not exactly something you can simply ignore for now and come back to later. That’s not how this works.”

“Well, since you claim to be such an expert on the subject, please, enlighten me as to how this works.” She glared harshly.

I clenched my jaw tight, my lips thinning to a firm, straight line as I held her stare. “I watched my mother die, Liberty.” I paused, drawing in a deep breath. “Six-years-old, and I watched the very same disease take her away from me.

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