I crossed the space he put between us and placed my hand on his shoulder. “Alex.”
“I was ready. I had everything in place. I knew my risks and I took my chances.” His voice broke. “He didn’t.”
I turned him to face me. “He did,” I assured him softly. “You made your choices and so did he.”
He crumpled to his knees and I followed him down to hold him in my arms. He finally allowed himself to break, after so many months of his being so strong for all of us. “I miss him, Rachel,” he sobbed. “I’d give anything I had to have him back.” His eyes met mine. “Even you.”
It was then I realized that was what we had both been doing. We had denied our feelings in hope that it would resurrect the dead. We had set Drew free, but locked ourselves in our own lonely rooms in his place. In doing so, Drew could never truly rest in peace.
I cupped his face with my hand. “Oh, Alex,” I said softly. “Haven’t you figured it out? You can’t get rid of me if you tried. It’s you and me. Forever.”
His bloodshot eyes scanned my face. As the storm raged around us, his head finally bent towards mine. Our lips were wet and tasted of rain as we kissed, and I felt something spark inside me that I thought had died a long time ago. He clutched me to his body as his mouth parted over mine, and I wrapped myself around him at last.
“God, I love you,” he finally admitted between hungry kisses we had denied ourselves for so very long. “I love you, I love you, I love you.”
We kissed long after the powerful and violent super cell rolled on by to the next house and the next town. By the time we headed back to our home, hand in hand, and heart within heart, we knew that more than one storm had passed.
The sun was shining upon us at last, and we were finally free to enjoy our new day. We walked this life together, carving out a new Fullerton legacy full of love and faith and forgiveness at last.
THE END
About the Author
Ginger Voight is a prolific author, optioned screenwriter, and freelance writer, covering topics from entertainment to travel. Her fiction is equally diverse, with novels like the edgy, coming-of-age drama DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS, and the fun family adventure for kids of all ages, COMIC SQUAD.
Having grown up reading different authors like Danielle Steel and Stephen King, Ginger has always been drawn more to story than to genre. This shows up in her various stories. Titles such as MY IMMORTAL and TASTE OF BLOOD are a delicious, heady mix of horror, suspense, and romance.
Genre romance, however, has held a special place in her heart, ever since she read her first Harlequin novel when she was only eleven. As a result, Ginger is making a name for herself writing romances of her own, starring women who look more like the average American woman rather than those traditionally represented in the size-biased American media. Her Rubenesque romances were created especially for those heroines with fuller figures, who can still get the man of their dreams if only they believe they can. Such titles include UNDER TEXAS SKIES, LOVE PLUS ONE, PICTURE POSTCARDS and the best-selling GROUPIE saga.
Ginger was included in the best-selling book by Smith Magazine NOT QUITE WHAT I WAS PLANNING, featuring her six-word memoir.
Find out more at her official website, gingervoight.com.
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