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He looked at me like I’d just slapped him.
“Why? What the hell for? Abby, you don’t believe me? You think I would cheat on you?” He gave me an incredulous glare. “I promised you I’d never hurt you.”
“Gilly,it’s Giselle. It’s her, and I’ve never seen you fall so hard for anyone apart from her. It’s the fact that it’s her. If I ever were to think of anyone you’ve been with who you were madly in love with, it’s her, and I knew you would have gotten back together in a heartbeat, even after what she did to you. You… loved her.”
“Yes, I did love her, but that was the past. I love you, and I always have.”
“I hear you, and I love you too, but she was this person you fell for at first sight. Remember? I know because you told me. I was the person you told everything. Gilly, I had a front seat ticket to the way you crumbled after she left, and now she’s back and wants you back. What’s to stop you from changing your mind and getting back together?”
That was it. I believed him when he said he would never cheat. But the depth of the love I’d seen him show Giselle was what got to me.
He didn’t love me like that.
“I don’t know what to say to you other than what I’ve already said.”
“Gilly, please try to see things from my side. You were talking about settling down with her. Just before she left, you wanted to have that talk about settling down and getting a place together. You said this was a bachelor’s pad, not the kind of place you’d want to raise a family in. Too small. I remember. I can’t express how much it meant to me to hear you ask me to move in with you, but you had bigger dreams for her. Those feelings don’t just go away.”
I didn’t think they did. If it were me and my ex I was head over heels for came back to town, I’d have some trouble dealing with that.
He shook his head at me. “This isn’t fair. Abby…what do you want me to say?”
I closed my eyes for a few seconds and opened them again. “I just need some time, Gilly. It’s not about anything you can say. I’m going on fact, what I saw… the way you were. I just…” I needed to stop talking.
It was best to, so I turned and walked away, not finishing whatever I was going to say, which would have showed the doubt I now held in my mind for us.
Chapter 14
Gilly
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No answer …
No answer on her fucking phone.
This was the one time I’d decided to call Giselle, and she wasn’t answering. I knew why, and she knew it too.
She fucking knew why I was calling, and I supposed I wouldn’t see or hear from her again until she was ready.
I’d never been on the receiving end of her wrath before, but I knew what she could be like. This was the trouble I’d been worried about.
Except…
I didn’t know it would come like this, or that Abby would react this way.
“Still no answer?” Eric asked. He came out of the kitchen holding a bottle of water.
“No, she’s not answering the damn phone to me,” I scuffed.
He’d come by earlier when I didn’t go to the stadium.
I might have had my reservations about Eric, but he was basically the guy version of Abby for me when it came to friendship. I told him a lot that I would tell her and had told him a lot about what was going on with us.
I’d told him about the baby.Potentialbaby.
It was a big thing for me, and I had to talk about it with someone. I’d also told him about how I felt about Abby. So, he knew how this was killing me now.
He sat down on the sofa and looked at me.
