When Forever Comes (The Forever Duet Book 1) by Tawni Suchy

Author:Tawni Suchy [Suchy, Tawni]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tawni Suchy
Published: 2023-06-22T16:00:00+00:00

NINE

WEST

We’ve remained in the conference room, catching up on life. There are a million things I should be working on, but I’m not ready to leave her after finally getting her back.

“I’m not a killer,” I say it out loud, still not believing the truth of that statement.

Olivia nods, but says nothing.

Staring past her, I add, “I never thought I would be able to say that with conviction.” I turn to her, looking directly into her eyes. “Once again, thanks to you, I have found stability on unsteady ground.”

Her brow furrows and she asks, “What?”

Before I knew Jesus, she was what I clung to when life set me on edge. She stood by me and, without realizing it, balanced me while I walked on a tightrope.

“When I had to leave you behind, it was worse than having a rug pulled out from beneath me. You were my lifeline in so many ways. Our late-night talks and walks on the beach made up for always feeling like the outcast. Knowing I had you in my corner despite my ranking in our status obsessed high school was what got me through. Then the fire happened… and I had to cut all ties to my lifeline — to you — and it felt like I was going to drown.”

“It felt that way for me too,” Olivia admits. Her eyes are watery; a tear rolls down her cheek.

Reaching forward, I swipe the tear off her cheek. “I’m sorry I left you.”

“Me, too.” She shakes her head, as if she’s trying to rid her mind of the memories. “But these ten years have been good to you.”

To the outside world, these last ten years have been the most successful years of my life. But there is more to life than money and material possessions.

“How in the world did this all come to be?” She waves her arms around, motioning to our surroundings.

“Do you remember my uncle Hans?” I ask.

She smirks and nods. “Yeah, that grumpy old man is impossible to forget.”

Olivia had taken a trip or two with me back in high school to visit him. Uncle Hans took an immediate liking to her.

“Well, after he died, I found out my regular visits meant more to him than I realized. He left his fortune to me. When I turned eighteen, I became a millionaire. After some investing in the market and real estate, my uncle’s millions turned into my billions, and I bought this resort and then the island.”

Olivia’s eyebrows raise at that. “Wow.” She stares at me for several seconds, her expression shifting from wonder to sadness. “Why didn’t you come back after all that?”

“I planned to, actually. When I finally worked up the courage to disregard your dad’s letter, I found you on social media and saw that you were engaged to Brad. You were the most important reason, the only reason, really, that I wanted to come back. But you were engaged to another man. So I stayed away.” I wanted to go back and claim my forever with her, but it was no longer my forever to claim.

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