Dancing With Sin: A forbidden love story by Alexandria Lee

Author:Alexandria Lee [Lee, Alexandria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Independent
Published: 2020-12-04T16:00:00+00:00

All I could do was keep running from him to save all of our lives.

Chapter 29: Dance Away the Pain

As the days marched towards Thanksgiving week, every single one of them started to blend together. Time felt like one big, long road going nowhere and I was a lonesome driver heading down the endless, winding pavement. I’d been isolating myself as much as possible lately and found it a rather easy thing to do now that I had cut things off with Peter.

After my kiss with Ethan, I couldn’t pretend with Peter anymore. It wasn’t right to do that to him or Ethan or even myself. Monica was right after all. You can’t force a spark with two wet matches, and that’s what Peter and I were when it all boiled down.

Two pieces of a system that would never create anything but disappointment.

I broke up with Peter the night I got home from wedding dress shopping with Monica, and since then, I’d done nothing but work, dance, and try to smile through it all. That’s how I began today, too. Smiling, faking it, and doing so quite successfully.

Until a call from Gabe turned my heart inside out.

Right before I pulled the front door open on to the bar, I answered my vibrating phone with an almost real smile.

“To what do I owe this early morning honor?”

“Hey, babe,” came Gabe’s voice, low and gentle. “Where are you?”

Confused, my reach for the front doors of the bar fell limp and I turned out to face the street. “I’m about to go into work, why?”

“Oh, nevermind then. Just… call me afterwards, okay?”

His tone, his hesitance, his oddly timed call all concocted a lethal dose of anxiety to shoot through my body.

“What? Is something wrong?”

A lengthy beat stretched out between us before Gabe spoke. “I don’t want to lie to you, but I also don’t want to tell you right before you go into work.”

“Well, you kind of don’t have a choice now considering that you’ve already built it up.”

A loud exhale came through Gabe’s end of the call, the sound moving my heartbeat faster and harder.

“Just… don’t go on any social media today, okay?”

His cryptic answer only twisted the knife of worry in deeper. “Why?”

“Just don’t, okay?” Gabe pressed. “Promise?”

“No, I don’t promise so either tell me now or the second we hang up, I’ll go check Facebook.” My threat fresh in the air, I listened to the silence coming from the other end of the phone with anxious breaths pulling in and out of my lungs.

“Please?”

Begging, threatening, and demanding were not in my normal actionable vocab. Gabe knew this. He knew me. He should know that if I’m using uncharacteristic language that I’m already dangling off the edge of my own sanity and that he should act fast to keep me from slipping.

“Okay, but before I tell you, know that I love you, I’m here for you, and literally everyone here is shocked that it happened.”

“What happened?”

Gabe stalled for a few moments

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