Butterfly Ops: by Jen Doyle

Author:Jen Doyle [Doyle, Jen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, paranormal, General, Fantasy, Urban, Fairy Tales; Folk Tales; Legends & Mythology
ISBN: 9781641970792
Google: rQuFDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: NYLA
Published: 2019-04-23T18:43:13+00:00

15

Right. Why had he said yes to a marriage proposal when he couldn’t even imagine having a future, much less sharing it with someone else?

Now it was Ian’s turn to fight off emotion. He might not have loved Abby back then; not in the way he’d loved Lyndsey, at least. But that didn’t mean there was nothing there. “She made me smile,” he said, remembering how monumental something as simple as that in itself had been. Back in those days, anything even remotely signaling happiness seemed impossible; he’d only been barely managing to get out of bed every morning. Hell, he’d still been at the stage of practically flipping a coin about whether he should just go all the way with one of the vampires and get himself turned so someone on his squad could stake him and be done with it.

“She made me want to. It seemed too soon after you. Like it couldn’t possibly be real—not again. I just…” He looked up to see Lyndsey watching him. “I wasn’t about to make the same mistake twice.”

For a few long seconds, Lyndsey just stood there staring at him, looking somewhat stunned. Then she squeezed her eyes shut. It took her a minute before she opened them and quietly said, “So if I had been the one to ask, would you have said yes to me too?”

Even after spending nearly the entire day thinking about what she’d said on the tarmac and what it meant, he still couldn’t grasp it. It just didn’t seem like enough of an actual possibility for him to truly contemplate. But looking into her eyes…

Well, it wasn’t like it was a tough call. If she’d actually come out and said any of this back then? If she’d actually let him talk to her?

“Without hesitation,” he said, unexpectedly gruffly. He would have married her in a second. If she hadn’t handed him his hat, he might even have asked her himself.

Lyndsey stared at him. Hard. Then she looked away suddenly, emitting a sound that sounded half like a hiccup and half like a, well, sob.

“Lyn,” he said, once again trying to go to her and once again being held off.

Before he could think of what else he could say, she quietly asked, “What’s the thing you’re not telling me?”

“The, um…” Damn it, he thought. He’d gotten a little too eager. Forgot there was still a whole other landmine they had to come back to. “Uh… What thing?”

Her arms went back around her sides. She hugged herself tightly as tears streamed down her face. The fact that she didn’t even try to stop them bothered him almost as much as the tears themselves. “The thing about why you don’t want to be with me.”

“What?” His jaw dropped open. He had no idea where she’d come up with something like that. She couldn’t possibly be serious. “I never said—”

“I can tell, you know,” she said, cutting him off, “that it’s not the same. That you don’t feel the way you used to.

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