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Unforgiven (Unforgiven, #1) Unforgiven by Elizabeth Finn
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“Stay.”
“I can’t.” Her voice was hitching.
“Why not?”
“Because I don’t think you want this for the right reasons.”
“I love you. What’s wrong with that reason?”
“You don’t love me.”
“I. Love. You.”
“No! You used to love me.”
“I love you still. I love you again. I just love you. I’ve always loved you.” He was speaking passionately, and he wouldn’t release her cheeks.
She shook her head. “No.”
“Yes. This is not some memory. I’m not reminiscing. I loved you then, and I’ve fallen completely in love with you all over again. Stay. Please. I’m begging you to give me a chance.”
Elizabeth Finn, Unforgiven
“You don’t fall in love with the person responsible for your greatest loss. And God help you if you do.”
Elizabeth Finn, Unforgiven
“Convince me not to hate you because… because hating you is the end of me.”
Elizabeth Finn, Unforgiven
“You will always be my world.”
Elizabeth Finn, Unforgiven
“Don’t do that. Don’t walk away.”
Elizabeth Finn, Unforgiven
“I never wanted to hate you. Not ever. You did this.”
Elizabeth Finn, Unforgiven
“You need to understand something. Forgiveness isn’t an emotion. It’s an action, and it’s a choice. It’s the choice to not let the past affect how you feel about her.”
Elizabeth Finn, Unforgiven
“I’m going to marry your brother someday.”
Elizabeth Finn, Unforgiven
“The only thing separating us from that existence rather than the one we find ourselves in is one small decision. I make wrong decisions every day.”
Elizabeth Finn, Unforgiven
“All I wanted was you. I wanted to have you, throw everything else out the window for you. Maybe if I had. Maybe if I’d given in sooner, the fight would have been over.”
Elizabeth Finn, Unforgiven
“You’re going to be happy. I promise.” He kissed her again, and then he said the words she didn’t want to hear. “It’s time.”
Elizabeth Finn, Unforgiven
“What do I do? Tell me because I can’t lose her again.”
Elizabeth Finn, Unforgiven
“You will always be my world.” His lips trembled as he said the words, and her tears fell. Then he’d kissed her again and turned away. Gone”
Elizabeth Finn, Unforgiven
“When? How long do you want to put this off? Until I break your heart again? Until I hurt you in some way that not even you can forgive? I don’t think you understand how much it destroys me . . . and yet . . . how hard it is to just let it all go. I don’t have to want to hurt you to do it. It just happens.”
Elizabeth Finn, Unforgiven
“I get it. How do you move past something like this? But wouldn’t it be quite a thing if you could?”
Elizabeth Finn, Unforgiven
“I’ve loved you forever.” His eyes were dark and serious.
“I love you too.”
Elizabeth Finn, Unforgiven
“I wouldn’t trade making love to you for anything in the world, but you made the choice to leave for a reason, and you made the right choice. You know that. You deserve better than my anger and hurt and mess. I want you to have better.”
Elizabeth Finn, Unforgiven
“I’m not going to hurt you,” he whispered. “Just remember how we used to be. That’s all I want for us right now. Just the two of us. No pain.”
Elizabeth Finn, Unforgiven
“Sleep.” His face was almost amused, but he seemed a bit too serious to pull it off. “I want to make love to you.” Then as she watched, he released a sigh and he shook his head. “I don’t want to pass it by again. I’ll accept it if I have to, but I refuse to think we could really live a whole life and not have that between us.”
Elizabeth Finn, Unforgiven
“I needed to see you. I thought I could do this . . . without seeing you . . . but I can’t. I’m sorry.”
Elizabeth Finn, Unforgiven
“You’re coming over. I want you there. You’re going to be there. End of story.”
Elizabeth Finn, Unforgiven
“Well, well, well. If it isn’t my favorite friend who hates my other friend but wants to bone her anyway and screw up her life because he’s a twisted, disturbed asshole.”
He rolled his eyes as he turned to see Michelle stepping into line behind him as he waited for his coffee. “Tell me how you really feel, Shell.”
She studied him with a smirk firmly planted on her face for a moment. “Okay. You need to end this thing with her before I have to scoop her lifeless, emotional soul off the highway after you’ve run it down with your Mack truck-sized anger issues.”
Elizabeth Finn, Unforgiven
“How long’s it been since you’ve been fucked?”
Elizabeth Finn, Unforgiven
“I want… I want so much to hate you. Do you know what it’s like? Do you have any idea what it’s like to see you, smell you, be near you again, feel your skin? Can you imagine what it is to hate someone so much, and yet…”
Elizabeth Finn, Unforgiven
“I wish you could feel that for me now.”
Elizabeth Finn, Unforgiven
“I’ve wanted you forever.”
Elizabeth Finn, Unforgiven
“Listen . . . I wasn’t trying to boot you out my door this morning. I wasn’t telling you to get lost. I wasn’t saying I hate you. I wasn’t saying anything.” He shook his head in frustration. “I don’t know what I’m doing, and I don’t have a clue what I’m supposed to do. I don’t know what this means or what it doesn’t mean. I don’t know how I’m supposed to feel, and I don’t have a fucking clue how to figure it out. But I’m here, and I’m not trying to hurt you. I’m not trying to make you feel bad. I just don’t know how to do this anymore.”
Elizabeth Finn, Unforgiven
“He pulled his mouth from hers, holding her face inches from his with a hand to each cheek, and he froze, panting. She was the center of his universe whether he wanted her to be or not, and at the moment, he so completely wanted her to be. He’d needed this, he’d dreamed of it, fantasized about it, obsessed about making love to her, and he was buried balls-deep inside the only woman he’d ever been so completely in love with.”
Elizabeth Finn, Unforgiven
“He cared. He couldn’t pretend he wanted to hurt her or that he relished her anguish in anyway. Just thinking about her in pain caused him grief. He might not be able to quiet the past enough to put it away yet, but he’d learned not to hate her. How could he ever have? She was his Bailey.”
Elizabeth Finn, Unforgiven
“Why can’t I stay away from you?” He looked lost, and she whimpered. “I’ve never been able to stay away from you.”
Elizabeth Finn, Unforgiven