Ray of Hope: Sandalwood Cove #1 by Elizabeth Thiele

Author:Elizabeth Thiele [Thiele, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-09-21T16:00:00+00:00

LEO

Hope is naturally a funny person. Hope tipsy is even funnier and I am having the time of my life tonight. I know she has felt the change in my moods and I’ve been trying to get over my own issues, but I can’t and I don’t know why.

I feel like Hope loves me, and I have come to terms, at least to myself that I’m in love with her too. There have been so many instances that I could have just said it to her, but then I remember how I felt watching her walk away from me at the beach. That was just her walking to the truck without me, not her actually leaving me.

I can’t lose her.

So, I’ll keep those words to myself, pray she never tells them to me and we can continue on how we are. She’ll be fine with that right? I’ll be fine with that right? Yes, we will be fine because there is no other option.

“Have you told her yet,” Javier asks me. I’m sitting at the bar watching Hope. She’s trying to get Margot to dance with her and it’s so funny to watch, because Margot does not dance.

Without looking at Javier, I respond, “Told her what?”

“That you love her.”

I start coughing because I choked on air when Javier said that. “What the fuck dude. No I haven’t, because I don’t.”

“Yes you do, I can tell. So why haven’t you told her?”

“Dude, drop it. I don’t love her, we’re just having a good time together. So get off my fucking back about it.”

When I see Javier’s eyes go over my shoulder and then widen, I’m nervous about what I’ll find behind me. When I turn around, I see Hope with her arms wrapped around herself and tears in her eyes. “Hope, baby,” I whisper.

When I take a step towards her, she takes one back and holds out a hand to stop me from advancing. “You don’t love me. We are just having fun together. Well, I’m glad I know now before I made this move too permanent.”

With that parting comment, her and Margot walk out of the restaurant. I’m assuming Margot is going to take her home. “If you don’t get your head out of your ass, you are literally going to lose the one and only woman who has ever given a shit about you,” Javier says and then he walks out too.

Where do I go from here?

Do I get up and dust off the emotional baggage that I can feel is trying to pull me under? Or do I continue wallowing and lose the only ray of hope that’s in my world?

I know my answer and I pray she will give my stupid ass another chance.

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