The Fire Still Burns by Crystal-Rain Love

Author:Crystal-Rain Love [Love, Crystal-Rain]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781479375189
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2008-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

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“Are you awake?”

Brynn grinned at the hesitant tone in Adam's voice as it flowed through her cell phone.

“Either that or I'm sleep-talking.” She reminisced about the many late-night phone calls they used to share when they were dating. She'd call for the time and temperature and while the automated voice gave her the info Adam would beep in on the other line. They never got caught doing it and their conversations would often last most of the night.

“I wasn't going to call, I know it's late.”

“It's fine. I'm reading Rachel Wood's diary.”

“Find anything interesting?” he asked after an awkward pause.

“Not yet. I'm starting from the beginning. I haven't reached anything about Zeke yet.”

“Oh. All right.”

“What's wrong, Adam?” She closed the diary.

“Nothing. Why do you ask?”

“You wouldn't be calling me up in the middle of the night beating around the bush unless something was wrong. What happened?”

There was another long pause followed by a deep sigh. “I've got a lot of questions and no answers.”

A ball of dread formed in Brynn's belly. “I know this case seems—”

“I'm not talking about the case, Brynn. I'm talking about you and me.”

Brynn's palms started to sweat and she nearly dropped the phone, the ball of dread rolling over and over inside her.

“Brynn?”

“I'm still here.” Nervous as hell, she added silently.

“I have hundreds of questions, but there's one that…it's eating me alive, Brynn. I need an answer.”

“What is it?” she asked, her hands shaking.

“Do you still love me?”

Brynn gasped. She'd been expecting another interrogation into the awful event that had nearly destroyed them both over a decade ago, not such a straight-forward question about her current feelings. What could she say? Where would this lead if she answered truthfully? If she lied or glossed over the issue?

“I still love you, Brynn. I wasn't going to let you know. I wasn't going to let you know how badly I was hurt when you left me, how many sleepless nights I suffered through, how I didn't want to even get out of bed.”

“Adam, please…”

“I can't do it. I can't deny what I feel. I love you. Do you love me? Did you love me?”

“Adam…”

“If you don't, I'll accept it. I know you don't want to stay here. I know you're going to leave me again. I just need to know if—”

“I love you,” Brynn blurted as tears inched down the sides of her face.

Her heart ached from his pain-filled confession, how much it must have cost him. “I've always loved you, but that doesn't matter now. It's not going to change anything.”

Because I love you I can’t tell you what happened to me. It’ll hang over us like a dark cloud. And you can never meet my son. You’ll never forgive yourself for not being there.

“It changes everything,” he said, his tone ominous. “Get some rest. We'll talk more tomorrow. I just had to get that question answered before I could sleep.”

“Adam—”

“Good night, sweetheart. We have a lot to talk about tomorrow.”

Brynn held the phone long after

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