Saint: A BWWM Romance Novel (The Corbett Billionaire Brothers) by Imani King

Author:Imani King [King, Imani]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-06-24T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

The limo brings us back to the apartment, the first place where I rally learned who Helena was. The first place I saw Trixie. We hold hands on the way back like two blushing high school sweethearts, and in a way, it seems like that's what we are.

What if, all of our lives, we've been placing our needs and desires on hold so that we could end up together?

It's the sort of half-baked romantic bullshit my brother Rowan might say on one of his particularly sentimental days, but it seems to have some weight to it. There's something about it that rings true to me—like we've been waiting for each other all along.

Of course, I don't say it. Instead, I sit there, holding her sweet hand, those long fingers wrapped around mine. I never understood why my brothers’ lives started to revolve around women and family and children. At least, I never understood it until just now. Instead, I spent years ridiculing them in my head, knowing beyond a doubt that I was dead set in my ways. That I wouldn't settle down or get married or any of the rest of the things that they were slowly doing, one by one.

It just seemed to cause them all heartache—until now.

They fought so many battles with infidelity and death and fertility and loneliness. If I kept a revolving door of women, I'd never have to face that.

They were so vulnerable, it seemed. It took me this long to realize that they were, in fact, so much stronger than I ever was. They knew the paths that they wanted to take when they met the women that were right for them.

They became husbands and fathers and caretakers while I was busy being a bad boy and getting my ass out of debt. Now that my life has started to settle into something more mature, isn't it right that I want that same vulnerability, that same strength?

I think all of these things as I grip Helena's hand and pull it close to me. I want this woman more than I've wanted most things in my life, but it's not just her body I'm after. Her soul matters to me too. It matters that she's raised my daughter, that's she's smart and funny and hardworking. That she's persnickety and smart-mouthed and organized and nothing like me at all. Besides the smart-mouthed part, we're not alike—and yet, I already know that we fit so well together.

The limo pulls up in front of her apartment, and I pause for a moment before opening the door.

These are things you think about a woman you love. And do I? It’s been so short a time. I know there’s lust, but there’s more than that. Much more.

Do I tell her now? Or do I wait? What do I even say? I don’t even know if it’s true. And those words… those words are so binding. Not now, not now.

“Helena,” I start. The words stick in my throat.

Instead of responding, she pulls my hand and motions to the driver, and the car door opens.

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