The Trouble With Love (Forbidden Love, #1)

by Kat T. Masen

“Sometimes it’s not the butterflies that tell you you're in love, but the pain.” - Unknown

“Love isn’t easy, Amelia. And the stronger and deeper the love, the harder it will test you. How else will you know if that person is worth fighting for unless you put it to the test?”

“Things change… people change.”

She’s everything you can’t have. And everything you want at the same time. A deadly combination that never ends well.

A love so strong can cause a mountain of grief.

Amelia has opened a part of me that has laid dormant.

“Because it’s you, Amelia,” he whispers so delicately. “You’re the one I can’t stop thinking about.”

“And I don’t understand why I want to tear apart any man who touches you in the slightest.”

“Then we keep us a secret. No one has to know but us.” “A forbidden affair…” I whisper.

Surrounding us, people hug and kiss, but all I can do is stare into the eyes of this beautiful woman I want to call mine. Forever.

“I’m in love with you, Amelia Edwards,” I admit, gazing into her eyes. “And no one will stop us from being together. I promise you this.”

“You’ve always been mine, Will Romano,” she whispers with a smile. “Our bond is too tight for us to think we could be nothing.”

“You’re all mine, Miss Edwards.”

“Amelia, for as long as you choose us, I’ll protect what we have,” he urges, running his thumb against my bottom lip. “Do you promise, Will? This will get harder before it gets better.” “I love you, Amelia. No one will stand in our way, and that includes your father.”

For as long as he’ll protect what we have, I’ll choose to fight for him.

And perhaps this is the trouble with love. At the best of times, it’s wondrous and core-shaking. Yet, at the worst of times, it can make you feel like the loneliest person in the world.

This pain, unbearable and consuming, is what we have become.

But in return, she did something which rendered me speechless. Something a man, older and more experienced, should’ve known better. She made me fall in love with her.

I’m not stupid. He taught me everything I know, and when the master himself has taught you all his tricks, you know well enough that his proposal for me to move is because he knows the secret we’ve been keeping.

Yet all the money in the world means nothing if I can’t have the woman I love. The beautiful woman still standing in front of me. Amelia Edwards.

For the longest time, my theory on love has been conceptualized to be a feeling of overwhelming happiness. It’s the holding of hands on a beautiful summer’s day, the endearing smiles while eyes lock together as if the rest of the world doesn’t exist. It’s the gesture of holding the door open or pulling out a seat in a restaurant. It’s offering to drive, to removing your coat when the other person is cold. Love, in my eyes, is the hardest of lessons if ever fate is not on your side.

Unrepairable, damaged, and writhing in pain. And that’s the trouble with love. It’s the greatest feeling in the world, if only for a fleeting moment. Yet, a broken heart will last a lifetime.