Page 57 of Never and Always
“I just told you. You aren’t good enough for her, Nick. I’m trying to show you why. It is as simple as that. I didn’t tell you before to spare your feelings, but I’m done with you,” Glenn snarled. “My sister is a sweet, innocent woman who allows her heart to get in the way. She always has. If you have any genuine feelings for her ask yourself this—what kind of man would think he was good enough for a woman like that if he was responsible for his own father’s death? Ask yourself!” Glennshouted.
Nick couldn’t answer, he couldn’t think. Glenn’s words weakened him, opening wounds that went deep into the pit of hissoul.
Glenn had the audacity to smile. “Good, you look like you’re finally beginning to see things my way. Now tell her it’s over, or I assure you I will literally destroy you.” Glenn stared him down as he walked out, leaving him. His words echoing in Nick’smind.
He wasn’t good enough forMia.
Nick slammed his fist into the wall, feeling distressed. The darkness of the past had started worming its way into his mind and working its way through his body. That dark place that nearly killed him years ago swamped him like a mass of negative energy, and in his mind’s eye he could see his father dying all over again. It was clear, so very clear. Those memories had never faded from his mind, they’d just been pushed to the back so he could deal with what had happened. But they were never far, and just now Glenn reminded him of the guilt that riddled hissoul.
Nick’s world had changed forever when his father waskilled.
He’d been stupid to think he could escape it, a fool to think that by simply pushing it to the back of his mind he’d be able to have some kind of a normallife.
It was true. He wasn’t good enough to be with Mia. It was true, and that was why Glenn cautioned him all those yearsago.
Glenn saw him as the arrogant, selfish idiot who got his father killed. Of course he wouldn’t want him to be with his sister. There was no question in it now. No cause forwonder.
But how was he going to end it with Mia? The thought made his heart break into several pieces. It made his soulshatter.
She’d be so hurt, so heartbroken, and it would be because of him. He couldn’t bring himself to do it. Not when he felt like this. They’d been together for days, but in his mind it was years. The wholetime.
It wasalways.
Glenn knew the significance of that day. That he would use it against him to highlight how unsuitable he was for Mia was pure evil. But he, Nick, couldn’t deny that he spoke thetruth.
It wasn’t just the worry over him taking advantage of Mia. Glenn didn’t want Mia to be with Nick because he saw him as a badperson.
The guy who got his fatherkilled.
It was true,thatwas true, and Mia deservedbetter.
