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“Darraign proves her wrong But worse, the only affection I received as a child was from Darcy, as just a baby herself My aunt not only refused to love me but she told me nearly every day that no one else could love h, it didn’t ainInstead I’m the stupid one It made me want affection all the more, it made me want to find so” She sobbed and he couldn’t help but reach for her Rain struggled out of his grasp, though, as if she couldn’t bear his touch, and he felt gutted by her rejection “Maybe it makes me naïve and silly but I want it all I want for once in this god-awful lonely existence to have one person love me so entirely that it consumes him I want that I want hi in his power to never be the one who hurts me” She took two more steps away from him “You’re not thatthe enored that she was dis to love Wasn’t his heart pounding so hard in his chest he thought itbecause he’d hurt her and he fucking hated that he hurt her? Wasn’t that enough?
“I am that ht I hate it And I want to be all that you want, and all that you deserve But, darlin’, you’ve got to coot to step into reality, too, and realize that nofor perfect,” she snapped “I’, I know thatto notice if afor the i about that attraction I’ for a man ouldn’t want to because he loves me”
“I don’t want to!” he yelled in frustration “It’s forjob It’s tip money!”
“Do you really need tips that badly?”
“I really need you to trustto see this from my perspective?” She wiped at her cheeks “How dare you?” she whispered brokenly “How dare youutted that he’d hurt her, and he wanted to comfort her, but at the same time he needed to stand up for what he believed He couldn’t let his love for her make him a weak pushover “I didn’t mean to But now you know for da You have to accept that Accept it, Rain, please I don’t want any woman to dictate how I do my job or how I live my life Not even you That’s not what a relationship is about”
Just like that a wave of coldness seeh Rain She shivered before him and her words came out like shards of ice “Get out of
Three days
Three shitty, godda it had been since Rain threw hi still couldn’t wrap his head around ithow much it hurt that she didn’t trust him
He’d picked up his phone soto call her, to hear her voice, to sort this mess out But his pride and hurt stopped hi wounded and it turned out he was a bit of a grumpy bastard when he was crossed in love
“Just call her already,” Joss had snapped at him at the bar when he’d been short with her
“Mind your own business,” he’d snapped back
“I’ a bit of bitch when Braden and I were going through so Sort your shit out or leave it at home”