"Now, I'm a coward for trusting you? Of course, everyone said you were only out for my money, but I thought you were better than that. Apparently, I was wrong." She starts turning. "Think all you want. Don't come back here again." "You are shameless," I scream at her, and she stops, but she does
"So what else are you here for, Larry?" She screams with a shaky voice, and it looked like she's almost going to cry again. "You can't break the rules of the contract," I yelled at her, and she seemed to recoil. Clearly, she'd forgotten about the contract. Good. Perfect, even. But truthfully, w
Caroline Shit! I’ve just been invited to a breakfast meeting with Larry, which is super weird. After what I'd overheard him saying to his father in the study, I had been thrilled but also annoyed. What? Wasn't he going to divorce Tiffany for me? Heck, I planned everything to be perfect for t
He spreads his arms out for a hug and when I slip into his arms, I swallow the bile which rises to my chest. “I hope I didn’t take you by surprise with the invitation?” “It was nice of you to ask me to join you,” I said. He nods, then laughs and lets me go. “Come, come,” he says as he heads to
It isn’t as though we’re talking about the weather or about the stock market. Right now, we’re talking about his cousin and how I might be in the middle of this put together. I sigh. "I don't know what you mean," I said. Perhaps I can pretend to not know anything and hold out for as long as I
Tiffany "Are you sure you're alright?" Laurene asks as she plops her elbow on the kitchen counter. After an entire year, I am back at her place. Before the confrontation with Larry in that semi-dark alleyway, I wouldn't have dared come back here now, but there's no hiding now, really. He has f
"He said that?" "He's a jerk, that's what he is. I can't believe I fell in love with someone like him." "It was about his son, come on! You know he would react that way to his son." "I know he loves his son," I calmly state. "But I was with him. I showed him that I loved his son too. How could
"I'm thinking about the weather, mostly," I whispered, turning. Then, pointing to the sky and the autumn leaves falling, I added, "I wish to always see these trees with you, Larry." He chuckles, says nothing for the longest time, but then his voice catches in his throat, and he sighs beside me. "I
By having him so close to me again, I feel like I can become someone good enough for both of us. "Just be careful around him," Madeline says. "I know you…Tiffany. Please be careful." "I shouldn't fall in love with him?" I tease because we both know that I am hopelessly in love with Larry who is
I square my shoulders and look at her dead in the eyes. “I don’t care about anything else, Sweets. I want you to be someone I can be myself with. I want to protect you, love you, and ache for you. I want to be the man that you seek for. Please let me be that for you…for us.” Is This Real?
Larry I pass her the chocolates and she opens it and takes one out. She bites from it and closes her eyes to savor the sweet taste. “Do you like it?” I ask. She nods. “You have good taste. Try it with me, Larry.” We sit together on the couch in the living room and I take one of the chocolat
I actually atop breathing and a shiver runs down my spine when I hear this because, somehow, I know it might be the truth and me clinging onto old memories and what ifs and maybes are because I can’t get over leaving again. “Hard truth, Tiffany?” Laurene asks but she doesn’t wait for an answer. “
I raise my cup and lean forward. We are sitting in a circle so it makes it easy for me to look from either of the friends here with me. “What should we toast to?” Laurene licks her lips and raises her glass too. “To us being the most creative friends on the East Coast.” “To our reunion!” Brynn s
Tiffany I go to visit Laurene at her place to tell her about what has been happening. "I don't support you leaving Adrian for whatever you are doing!" She says to me. "Is that why you gave him my number and where to find me?" I ask. I'm still angry that she did but when I ask this, I am not r
"That is lovely," she says and we kiss again. It feels like this is the best life. I leave her house and go home. I am happy with how everything is turning out to be that for a while I seem to have forgotten about Caroline's cheating and her hurting our son until she shows up at my house the n
"And the divorce papers you sent?" She asks with a rather sharp tone. "That hurt me. What about it? What are we to do with that?" "Tear it up," I say. "I can't stand a minute with you, sweets. Forgive me and stay with me." I take her to my car and drive her home. On the drive home, we are silent
Larry Tiffany kisses me and it takes all of my willpower not to slam her into me and kiss her with all of my pent-up emotions. I miss her dearly and having her so close to me only ignites the longing and doubles it too. After she breaks the kiss, we stand apart just breathing in each other's s