Rome: 5th Circle Guardians MC, Book 2 by E.K. Hart
Author:E.K. Hart [Hart, E.K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-03-07T18:30:00+00:00
Chapter 14
Abby
âHearing what those bunnies saidâ¦thatâs why you pulled away, wasnât it? I remember that you started avoiding me. You didnât call or text me, and you stopped responding to me when I reached out to you. When I wanted to take you out to lunch for your seventeenth birthday, you shot me down.â
âYeah, thatâs why, but why didnât you ever ask? If you loved me, why didnât you ask why I was pulling away? Why didnât you ask about the Romeo thing? You knew it bothered me, Caleb. You admitted it at our session. So, why didnât you ever bother, even once, to ask me what was wrong?â
âWhen you pulled away and avoided me, I hated it on one hand, but it was almost a relief in a way.â
I couldnât help the pained gasp that escaped me at his quiet statement, and he rushed to reassure me.
âShit, that didnât come out right. Just, let me explain, please.â I nodded, and he continued.
âSeeing you and spending time with you without telling you how I felt, or acting on those feelings, was getting so damned hard, Abs. Every time I was around you, I had to fight myself. So, it was almost easier when I graduated and didnât see you quite so much. Since Lucky was a year behind me, he kept an eye on you at school for me. He also gave me the heads up when guys started sniffing around you. I never thought about how that would make you feel. If Iâd known what you were thinking back then â with the clothes and the diets and shit â I swear to God, I would have come clean with you, baby girl. Iâm so fuckinâ sorry I did that to you. Iâm so fuckinâ sorry for all of it.â
âOK, so why didnât you ask why I stopped calling you Romeo?â
âI donât know. I think in the back of my mind I was afraid of the answer. Iâd heard jokes about my road name being appropriate, given the shit I was doing, and I shut those fuckers down every damned time. Iâd worried that youâd heard that, too, but then I would have had to talk to you about the other women, and I didnât want to have to do that. I was trying to protect you from what Iâd done, but clearly that fuckinâ failed. Then, when you started calling me Caleb again, I liked that you were the only one not using my road name. It was special, just for you. So, I let the Romeo thing drop.â
I nodded, not surprised by anything he told me.
âI just wish to God Iâd known â that Iâd manned the fuck up and just asked you. I hate the idea that youâve had to be reminded of that every day when you look at my cut. And I really fuckinâ hate the idea that I gave you a cut that said, âProperty of Romeo.â Iâm surprised you didnât burn the damned thing.
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