Chapter 87 Ethan…Apologized?!
“Ouch!” I took a step backward, rubbing my forehead, trying to sort out in my mind what had just happened.
“I‘m sorry, Rosalie!” he whispered, and for a moment, I thought I had to be mistaken.
I thought it was Ethan I had run into.
It smelled like him.
It felt like him.
When I glanced up at him through my eyelashes, it looked like him.
But when I heard those two words come from between his lips, I thought I had to be mistaken, and Soren must‘ ve come back early from his trip.
There was no way in the world that Ethan would‘ve told me he was sorry about anything.
“Are you all right?” he asked me, still keeping his voice quiet.
I pulled my hand away from my forehead and gazed at him. The moonlight fell over him like a lighthouse beacon, calling me home.
I couldn‘t allow myself to fall for this siren‘s song.
“Y–yes. I‘m okay,” I grumbled in a low voice. “Not that you care.” I was just glad I‘d whipped around head first and hadn‘t hit my baby bump against his muscular physique. “Why are you here?”
His eyes widened as if he was hurt by my question.
“I came to see you,” he said, moving toward me.
“Don‘t!”
I put up my hand and took a step back, and he didn‘t move any closer to me. “I don‘t understand why you‘re here at all, Ethan.”
He sighed. “Rosalie, all that time, everyone was trying to convince me that you and the baby were dead, but I knew in my heart that you weren‘t. I had to see for myself that you weren‘t.”
I folded my arms under my chest. “Well, you‘ve seen it. Here we are. Not dead.”
He pressed his lips together, and I saw his jaw flex, which let me know he was debating how to respond. “You‘ve changed, Rosalie.”
“Yes, I have, for the better.” I replied. “Now that your mission is accomplished, could you please leave?”
that truly
was unsure of what to do. When was Ethan ever unsure of
ready for, but I had already spent a great deal of
I went with
a new life here. I have a home. I have a job. I have friends.” I paused and looked him in the eye. “I have people who
saw him wince a little
wasn‘t through. I could feel all of the anger I‘d been carrying around
I am alive, then you‘ve gotten what you came for, and you should
that much at once, but I had to spit it all out; otherwise, I may not have the courage
islands, go ahead and finish it. But you have no reason to come
I finished speaking, but I blinked them away. I didn‘t want him to see me cry. I didn‘t want him to know I wasn‘t one hundred percent sure
back into his arms
at me for a long moment, and I expected him to yell at me, ordering me to do something. But to my surprise, when he spoke, his voice was
I can see on your face that you don‘t mean what you‘re saying. You still have feelings for me. If you can truly tell me that you‘ve moved on, and you don‘t want to be with me, that you‘d rather be with that other guy… fine. I‘ll leave you the h*ll alone. But I don‘t
not
pulled at
you think you‘re alone. I‘ve seen the way you look out the window
He took a breath.
Rosalie. I don‘t blame you for being scared. But if you‘ll give me another opportunity, I promise you, I‘ll show you that I am truly sorry for the mistakes I‘ve made, and
you.”
long moment, dumbfounded, as I
I had heard Alpha
wasn‘t processing it very
I asked him. “You‘re
like a dormant volcano that had held onto too much pressure for too long, all of my rage suddenly erupted
since you‘re sorry, I‘ll just go ahead and drop everything that
he said, looking down at
say you were sorry, and I just want to make sure that I acknowledge that completely. Because as long as you‘re sorry, and you express that in a haphazard way, in passing, as simply
I‘m here because I want to be with you.
as if he
to tell me you‘re going to drop the responsibility King James and your pack have placed upon
he said, his eyes locked
to believe him. I
never abandon
breath, and
enough that you‘ve snuck off behind your beloved fiancée‘s back to find
was surprised by what I said, and shook his
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