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.When he had the chance to take me with him, or stay with me, he just left.”She thinks I left her here?I was in complete shock.What would cause her to think I left her, when it was me who gave up everything? “It’s kind of hard to believe that someone would leave you, Grace.Do you still love him?”A strong winter wind blew her hair tossing it wildly across her face, dramatically, “Always and forever, and then an eternity after.A girl will never forget her first perfect innocent kiss.” She breathed in deeply, “We were in really different places in our lives, Shane.I don’t blame him one bit for his decision.He was someone very awe-inspiring and I know I didn’t deserve his love…I just…I just physically hurt knowing that for so long, I held onto him when I had no chance to be with him, ever.He made the choice just to leave.I know it was supposed to be to make me happy, but it sure as hell didn’t.”“The man was a bigger jackoff than I thought,” I cringed.I needed to make her forget about angels and just fall in love with the human me.That’s all I had to offer her now.She smiled at me and shook her head slightly, “No, we just really weren’t supposed to be together.It was a real Romeo and Juliet type of relationship.We were completely forbidden to be together.”I leaned my face closer to hers and whispered low into her ear, “There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.”“Mark Twain? Shane, how do you know all those quotes that pop out of your mouth?”My lips tingled from the wideness of my smile.“How do you know all the people the words belong too?”“Touché,” she said laughing.I shifted even closer to her, so that my lips were now touching the warm skin of her cheeks.“Hear my soul speak.Of the very instant that I saw you, did my heart fly at your service,” I whispered.“Shakespeare.The Tempest.” She teasingly pushed my face away.“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.Edgar Allen Poe.”“You know, Grace, you are the only girl that can go toe to toe with me without batting an eye.”She batted those stunning eyes at me.Fuck, I wanted to pounce on her.If I stayed on this beach any longer, I was going to lose myself inside her.Take it slow; don’t let her know who you were!I almost punched myself in the nuts for ending our talk, but I had to.I couldn’t stay there alone with her, without touching her in the way I really wanted to, or telling her the stuff I really wanted to say.“Want to head back now? I heard something about taking a little hottie out dancing tonight…” Taking her hand, I helped her up and we walked through the sand back to her bike, holding hands.“So you’re taking out a little hottie, huh? Lucky girl,” she laughed as we climbed back on the bike.“Yea, well, it’s pretty much a lost cause.Last time I made a play for her and talked to her, she just wanted me to treat her like one of the guys.It’s a damn shame, because I think she’s freaking amazing.”She blushed about ten shades of sexy as sin red across her cheeks.“Wow.So what are you going to do about that?” She challenged me.Lowering my face to just an inch above hers, I brought my eyes right to hers, “I’m going to do everything I can fucking think of to change her mind.”A small gasp fell past her lips and with it, I turned around, started the bike and drove us towards Lea’s parent’s house.She grasped onto my waist, slid her cold hands under my jacket and shirt, and laid them against my skin.I thought she was trying to kill me.Was there a more perfect way to die?Chapter 23We really tried to wait for the girls to get ready, we really did.Conner couldn’t take being in the house with Lea’s parents any longer, while they planned out how many children Conner should father and what to name all six of them.So, instead of waiting in the middle of the battlefield they called a living room, we waited for the girls at a bar called Sunsets, right off the beach.Conner slouched himself against the bar and hung his head in his hands, groaning.After ordering two beers from a bartender with bright orange hair, I turned to Conner and nudged him with his beer.“You okay, bro?”Raising his head only slightly, he groaned even louder, “Six kids, Shane! They expect six kids and they have named them ALL for us!” He straightened up and raked his hands over his face.“I am twenty-four years old.I’ve been with Lea for eight months and they are talking about us having six children.I feel sick.I don’t even think I could take care of a fish.”Sipping my beer, I gave him a nod.“Do you love her?”Conner sighed.“Yeah.I do.But marriage? Dude, how they hell do you know if you’ve found the right girl, I mean how.?” He froze in mid sentence and started laughing.“I’m an ass, look who I’m asking this question to.”“Number one, shut up and fuck you,” I said, holding my fingers in the air counting at him [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]