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 what
as if he was unsure of what to do. When
question had an air of finality about it I wasn‘t sure I was ready for, but I had
went
have a new life here. I have a home. I have a job. I have friends.” I paused and looked
pained. I saw him wince
I could feel all of the anger I‘d been carrying around with me since I‘d first
you just wanted to see that I am alive, then you‘ve gotten
but I had to spit it all out; otherwise, I
have other business here on the islands, go ahead and finish it. But you have no reason to come back here
them away. I didn‘t want him to
throw myself back into his arms the way I had the night before when
stared at me for a long moment, and I expected him to yell at me, ordering me
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
were not spoken with the conviction I meant them
pulled at the corners of
seen the way you look out the window and how your eyes
He took a breath.
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
you.”
stared at him for a long moment,
heard Alpha Ethan say he was sorry. It was a
wasn‘t processing it
asked him.
felt the anger welling up inside of me, and like a dormant volcano that had held onto too much pressure for too long, all of my rage suddenly erupted to
well, since you‘re sorry, I‘ll just go ahead and drop everything that I‘ve got going on here, and do
said, looking down at the ground and shaking his
and you express that in a haphazard way, in passing, as simply as
because I want to be with
as if he
You mean 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
abandon your responsibilities,
breath, and then continued
off
what I said, and shook his
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