Love Always, by Sonya Loveday & Candace Knoebel

Author:Sonya Loveday & Candace Knoebel [Loveday, Sonya & Knoebel, Candace]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B010EEG3J8
Publisher: Sonya Loveday
Published: 2015-08-24T23:00:00+00:00

“YOU WENT AND FELL IN love with him, didn’t you?” Hannah asked, handing me the last of the tissues.

My eyes felt like they’d been pressed through a juicer. My skin felt like frying pans had been held against my face. I took the tissue from her and did my best to give her a scolding look, but I failed, wishing I could just curl up like a roly-poly and sleep away my embarrassment.

“I’ve beat myself up enough about this. I don’t need your help,” I said, blowing my nose. With a shuddering breath, I threw the tissue into the wastebasket next to my bed. “And anyway, the blame is partly yours.”

“Mine?” she said, pointing to her chest and laughing incredulously.

“Yeah,” I said, jutting my chin up in the air. “You’re the one who encouraged me. You’re the one who gave me that crap talk about how love is somehow like swimming. It’s your fault for getting my hopes up. Your fault I’m drowning.”

I knew I was being pathetic, totally and completely, but I couldn’t help it. Phillip’s words had ripped a hole in my chest.

And the worst part was… I had let it happen.

Her hand found mine, and then she pulled me against her, running her fingers through my hair. “I don’t think I gave you poor advice, Maggs. You like him. Still. I can see it in your eyes. There’s still hope to fix this.”

“Hope?” I repeated lamely. “I tethered hope to an anchor the minute I let myself believe I had a chance with him, and then I secured concrete blocks around hope’s ankles and dropped her in the ocean the second I took Phillip to the lighthouse, thinking we could finally be honest with each other. The only hope left for hope is that she drowns quickly in the tears of my embarrassment.”

“Deep,” she said, unimpressed. “Listen, chick, I’ve never seen you like this before. I mean, you’re in full meltdown mode. What happened to iron-armored Maggie?”

“Rub it in,” I muttered miserably.

“I am, because you need to step outside of your little circle of sorrowful feelings and see the bigger picture here.”

“Are you kidding—?”

“No,” she said, cutting me off. “I have a point to make,” she added in a scolding tone. “Just like Phillip probably did, and you never gave him the chance to explain.”

I sat up, my mouth wide and eyes scrunched in betrayal.

“You said you repeatedly cut him off. You just assumed you knew what he was going to say. You assumed, because you were scared and—”

“I was not!”

Her eyes flattened on me. “Maggs, this is me you’re talking to. When he didn’t answer you right away, or sweep you off your feet with some profound, poetic expression… you probably went into freak-out mode thinking you had read the signs all wrong. And understandably so. This is the first guy you’ve actually let in since… since…”

“Scott,” I finished for her.

“Right,” she said, head tilting to the side as a question appeared on her face. “What happened to him anyway?”

“He wasn’t the one,” I answered simply.

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