Mister Wrong by Nicole Williams

Author:Nicole Williams [Williams, Nicole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nicole Williams
Published: 2017-02-25T05:00:00+00:00

“You mean everything to me, baby. Everything. I’m so sorry I missed the wedding. I’ll never forgive myself. I’ll never stop trying to make it up to you, I swear.”

Jacob hadn’t stopped repeating the same phrases he’d first said to me in the lobby, but I couldn’t shake the feeling that with every repeat, they sounded less and less sincere. I wanted to believe him. I wanted so badly to believe him, but I couldn’t ignore what had happened. I couldn’t ignore the past, and I couldn’t ignore the warnings going off in my head, questions as to what he’d been doing to miss what should have been one of the biggest days of our lives.

I couldn’t ignore the way I felt.

I’d been doing that for years, and it had done me no favors.

As evidenced by the one person I was thinking about right now—and it wasn’t the one with his arms around me, his mouth close to my ear as he repeated his promises and apologies again and again.

Matt.

Where was he?

Where had he gone?

What did he think?

Matt. Always Matt. I was so exhausted by my secret thoughts of Matt that I felt ancient inside, like my conscience had lived an eternity while my body wasn’t even thirty.

“Please, let me make it up to you. Let me make this right, baby. There’s nothing you and me can’t get through, I know it.” Jacob’s mouth moved lower, tasting my throat, making me stiffen. “We’re meant to be together.”

The way he touched me, the way his mouth moved against me, the way his hands felt . . . why did it all feel so wrong now? For years, I’d known nothing but his touch, and now, it felt uninvited. Unwanted. It felt wrong.

All I could do was compare it to the way Matt’s touch felt—how his hands had moved over me, his lips touched me, his body fit against mine.

“Jacob, stop.” My voice sounded small, insignificant.

When his hands kept pressing into me, pushing me farther into the corner of the elevator until I felt like all of the oxygen had been drained from the car, I pushed him away. Harder than I’d intended. He staggered back into the opposite corner, looking at me like he didn’t recognize me.

“You’ve been drinking. And I’m not going to have this conversation with you until you’re sober.”

He’d recovered and was already making his way back to me. “Who said anything about talking?”

A slow smile pulled at one side of his mouth. I remembered a time when my heart would do crazy, erratic things whenever I saw that smile aimed my way. Now, it made me sad. Sad for what had been, what could have been, and everything that had been lost.

“I’ve missed you, Cora. I need to feel close to you.”

My fingers tightened around the handrail. “You didn’t show up to our wedding. The event we’d been planning for a year, the one that five hundred people attended. I’m not okay with turning my head and forgetting it ever happened.

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