A PROMISE

Halle had no plans of telling him. She had made up her mind in the bathroom that she wouldn’t say a word.

Until he treated her like…no one else mattered, like nothing else mattered.

Right now it was just the both of them, no one else not even her past was strong enough to stop what she was feeling.

How safe he made her feel.

She wasn’t afraid to say the words to him, what she feared was what he would think right after he hears everything.

“Before I tell you…promise—”

“Halle…tell me,” Xavier said, it wasn’t that he was not willing to make a promise to her, he just knew that there was no reason that could ever make him leave her.

And while Halle saw it in his eyes she still hesitated, she wanted so badly to trust in that love and affection she saw in his eyes but…

“My parents were better as friends than they were as a couple,” Halle began, her throat clogged up with emotion, “At first I didn’t see it and quite frankly it didn’t show that much until my brother died…then they chang