In Love, Never Say Never

He laughed coldly. “Get over it? How am I supposed to get over it when my wife gets all depressed because of another man no matter where she goes? He’s dead and yet he’s on your mind all the time. Don’t even think about telling me that you’re just grateful. You know Marcus better than I do. Would he help some stranger because he sympathized with them? No! You know exactly why he started getting close to you, but despite that, you still let him take care of you. Do you know what that’s called?”

He paused and looked at me before saying firmly, “Being selfish.”

I pressed my lips tightly together and looked at his darkening gaze before flashing a smile. “Yup, that’s me. I’m the most selfish person to ever exist so you should probably cut ties with me before my selfishness becomes contagious.”

I pushed him away and felt my eyes start to cloud over with tears. He seemed to realize and reached out to pull me back.

My chest was starting to ache from all the emotions and I yelled, “Get away from me!”

He wasn’t prepared for that and stumbled back a couple of steps. Instead of walking toward me like I expected him to, he continued to stare at me.

The tension in the air was so thick, it could be cut with a knife. I braced myself for what I thought was about to become another yelling match.

But he stayed quiet.

He looked at me for a long time before turning and walking away.

I didn’t know why things turned out like this. I knew he was good to me and I knew he was in love with me, but why did things have to turn out like this?

My tears started falling on the ground.

stepped out of the room, I rushed forward

me

I said, burying

stayed quiet as if he was

time, he put a hand on mine and turned away from my tight grip. “If that’s all you had to

at his handsome, angular features and into

a kiss right at the corner of my mouth. “Don’t involve yourself with the

had already pulled my hands away but he took them in his own

White family anymore, nor did I have much to do

Ashton was talking about and the involvement I was talking about clearly differed. I owed Marcus my life. If

why I couldn’t say

up and pulled my

started freezing over again along

to me,” he said, his

like a deflated balloon. I looked up

Marcus and Rebecca. It was simply the

like charcoal. He was clamping his lips together as if he were trying to suppress his

on,” he said in

and stepped back, looking