Hexed and Vexed by Rebecca Royce

Author:Rebecca Royce [Royce, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B00ELRNQ04
Publisher: Decadent Publishing Company, LLC
Published: 2013-08-15T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Three

“You know what?” She had to sit down. Straight on the ground. The world had shifted around her. Or maybe it hadn’t. Perhaps she’d finally reached her breaking point. “I can’t afford to believe you.”

“Why not?” He looked so earnest and it made her heart turn over.

“Because what if it isn’t that? What if you’re simply not remembering it because of the hex? I believe you. I forgive you for six months of hell. I let my heart out of the ice I’ve encased it in. And then you remember that yes you do love Cindy.” He flinched when she said that. “I have to go through the pain of the whole thing. Again. I’m sorry. You’ll have to forgive me. I really don’t think I can do it. Ever.”

“Listen to me very closely.” He stood up and walked to her, stronger than he’d been before. “I know this is what happened to me. Do you want to know how I know? Because I love you. I have loved you since you were fourteen years old, when I should not have loved you.”

The blush that always touched her cheeks when he said that started. She could feel the heat. “You were all of nineteen.”

“Well, it was too old for you. So I stayed away.”

She nodded. If this was the last time she heard him tell the story, she wanted him to get through the whole thing.

“And then years later you weren’t too young anymore. I couldn’t resist.”

He laughed, his eyes bright. “No. I did stay away until you were done with my class. Then, I went after you with everything I could muster. I got what I wanted.” He squeezed her hands.

She looked away for a second to steady herself before she glanced back. “Yes, you did. I got my wish, too. The hot T.A. who I’d wanted since I’d turned fourteen picked me over every other girl in the universe.”

“You sound sad when you say that.”

“They’re nice memories.” She would always hold on to them. “But they’re over now.”

“Over?” He caressed the side of her face. “There’s nothing even remotely finished about us.”

Campbell leaned close. There would be plenty of time to stop him if she wanted to. His breath felt warm on her cheek. She closed her eyes when his mouth laid gentle kisses right below her lids.

Forehead to forehead, they breathed together. Her cheek tingled where he’d kissed her.

“Well.” She swallowed and opened her lids. “It’s fair to say I’ll always be affected by you.” When he leaned in to kiss her mouth, she backed up. “Look, I want you, but that doesn’t mean it’s a smart idea. In fact, right now it’s downright wrong.”

“Nothing could ever be anything but right between us.”

She shook her head and stood up. “Yesterday morning you were standing at an altar ready to love, honor, and cherish my sister.”

“Because I was under a curse. I don’t want to be in front of an altar with anyone but you.”

Olive hiccupped. Her stomach hurt.

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