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?”
is that truly what
voice was deep and low, as if he was unsure of what
but I had already spent a great deal of the day deciding that I was ready to move
I went
I have a new life here. I have a home. I have a job. I have friends.” I paused and looked him in the eye. “I have people who are kind to me and
I saw him wince a little when I
all of the anger I‘d been carrying
see that I am alive, then
I had to spit it all out; otherwise, I may not have the courage to say
you have other business here on the islands, go ahead and finish it. But you have no
eyes when I finished speaking, but I blinked them away. I didn‘t want him to see me cry. I didn‘t want him to
of me wanted to throw myself back into his arms the way I had the night before when I‘d assumed that
moment, and I expected him to yell at me, ordering me to do something. But to my surprise, when he spoke, his
you don‘t mean what you‘re saying. You still have feelings for me. If you can 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 h*ll alone. But I don‘t think you mean
my words were not spoken with the
small, melancholy smile pulled at the
heard the songs you sing when you think you‘re alone. I‘ve seen the way you look out the window and how your
He took a breath.
scared. But if you‘ll give me another opportunity, I promise you, I‘ll show you that I am truly sorry for the mistakes I‘ve made, and I‘ll
you.”
a long moment, dumbfounded, as
heard Alpha Ethan say he was sorry. It was a lot to
I clearly wasn‘t
asked
me, and like a dormant volcano that had held onto
everything that I‘ve got going on here, and do
down at
I just want to make sure that I acknowledge that completely. Because as long as you‘re sorry, and you express that in a haphazard way, in passing, as simply as possible, I‘m willing to go back with you and be your breeder, your thing on the side, while you marry that other woman, and go on with the privileged life that
here because I want to be with you. Madalynn means
him, as if he couldn‘t believe I
and your pack have placed upon you to marry Madalynn so that you can be
will do it for you,” he said,
believe him. I truly
never abandon your responsibilities,
breath, and then continued
bad enough that you‘ve snuck off behind your beloved fiancée‘s back to
was surprised by what I said, and shook his head. “What? No,
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