Never Again by Lilliana Anderson

Author:Lilliana Anderson [Anderson, Lilliana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LA Romance
Published: 2017-12-13T18:30:00+00:00

“I’ve been cheated on before,” I said into the dark, our bodies wrapped together in a tight cocoon after making love more than a couple of times. “I came home from work and they were fucking in my bed.”

“I’m sorry,” he whispered, the theme word of the night, as he pressed his lips against my bare shoulder.

“At the time, I thought I’d never get over it. Then you happened and I experienced something so powerful that I stopped being sad. I stopped being angry. But now, with everything that’s happened in such a short time and the risks involved…I’m scared. Not only do you have the power to hurt me, somehow, you also have the power to completely destroy me.”

He wrapped me tighter in his arms, releasing a long, pained sigh. “I’m so sorry, baby.”

Baby. I liked it when he called me that. It made me feel cared for, protected…

“Would you have gone through with it? If I hadn’t yelled enough? Would you have let her—” I choked back a sob, unable to say the words.

“No,” he whispered, his lips against my hair. “I couldn’t. She wasn’t you.” He rolled with me, covering me with his body as he buried his face into my neck. “The way I feel about you, need you; it’s an insanity. It’s no excuse, I know, but it’s how I feel around you. I need you to forgive me.”

With my arms wrapped around his neck, my fingers digging in hair, I drew a stuttered breath. “I can forgive you, Bran. Just promise me you’ll never do something like that again. I’m not blameless here. I treated you badly this past few days too. But no more using people against each other. No more getting mad and acting recklessly. Just because this feels crazy, doesn’t mean we have to be.”

Pulling his head up from its resting place, he looked down at me. “I can promise not to use other people, Cora. But I can’t promise not to act crazy. I mean, this thing between us, it’s not normal, right? Nothing about this is normal.”

I reached up and brushed my fingers through his silky hair. “Maybe we should both be committed?”

He rolled off me, landing on his back with a soft thud, one arm still around me. “What happens if this feeling gets worse instead of better? How do we even begin to control something like that?”

I shook my head. “I don’t know. But all relationships lose their intensity eventually. I suppose we just wait it out.”

“And what happens if it never dies down?”

“Then I guess we’re stuck with each other.”

“Would that be such a bad thing?”

I looked at him for a long time. Could I see this man becoming a part of my future? Could I handle feeling this sick with need long-term? And what would happen when I got old before him? Would he turn into every other man and start looking for the next pretty young thing? There were so many questions, none of which I had an answer to.

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