Whispers of You (Lost & Found, #1)

by Catherine Cowles

“I like you, Holt Hartley.” His eyes sparked with intensity. “I love you, Cricket. With everything I have.” Everything in me soared. “I love you, too. I always have.” He grinned, the devastating kind that always took me out at the knees. “We’re gonna have a beautiful life.” He said it with such certainty that I believed every word.

“It’ll hurt so much more if you touch me.” Tears streamed down her face as she struggled for breath. “I can’t. I thought I could, but I can’t. I can’t see what we could’ve had. I can’t watch you move back here, fall in love with another woman, and give her all my dreams. I can’t.”

Lawson stared at me for a moment. “I’ve never known two people who loved each other more. Not even my parents. The way you two always were around each other… Like you could sense where the other was at all times and if they needed something,”—he took a breath—“you were giving it to the other before anyone else could blink.”

Whispers in the air all around us. Whispers of him. Of us. Of the past. Of the present. Of forever. I let them take me under, embed themselves in my skin, and carry me away.

Because a fear still lived down deep; one that told me the whispers of him would be all I ever had.

I’d stolen so much from her. Those chuckles. Our life—the one we’d planned for so long.

And sooner or later, she would believe that forever was just a lifetime of a little whiles.

“Not going to pretend I’m not in love with you, Wren. Missed touching you. Sometimes, I’d be walking and swear I felt your hand in mine.”