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
he was unsure of what to do. When was Ethan ever unsure of
ready for, but I had already spent a great deal of the day deciding that
I went with
home. I have a job. I have friends.” I paused and looked him in the eye. “I have people who are kind
pained. I saw him wince a little
of the anger I‘d been carrying around with me since I‘d first found out his
to hurt me, and you just wanted to see that I am alive, then you‘ve gotten
much at once, but I had to spit it all out; otherwise, I may not have the courage to say any
other business here on the islands, go ahead and finish it. But you have no reason to come back here to see me.
them away. I didn‘t want him to see me cry. I didn‘t want him to know I
to throw myself back into his arms the way I
at me for a long moment, and I expected him to yell at me, ordering me to do something. But to my surprise, when he spoke, his voice was calm and
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 a word coming
I said. But my words were not spoken with
smile pulled at the corners
look out the
He took a breath.
hating me, Rosalie. I don‘t blame you for being scared. But if you‘ll give me another opportunity, I promise you, I‘ll show you that I am truly
you.”
for a long moment, dumbfounded, as
heard Alpha Ethan say he
I clearly wasn‘t processing it
asked
the anger welling up inside of me, and like a dormant volcano that had held onto too much pressure for too long, all of
since you‘re sorry, I‘ll just go ahead and drop everything that I‘ve got going on here, and do
looking down at the
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
with
front of him, as if he couldn‘t believe I
your pack have placed upon you to marry Madalynn so that you
he said, his eyes locked on
believe
won‘t! You will never abandon your responsibilities, Ethan. I
a deep breath, and then continued
off behind your beloved fiancée‘s back to find
by what I said, and shook his head. “What? No, I don‘t love
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