Before Dawn: A Free Falling Novella Page 12

  I’m certain there’s disappointment written all over my face. “But we never managed to talk about what happened back then.”

  Bloody hell! My parents and Jimmy’s brother, with his family. All at the same time, huge commotion and clatter on the deck. What a nightmare!

  Olivia is about to get up and leave, but I hold her hand firmly. “It’s only a dinner, Liv. Not a proposal.”

  “Brian, why would we delve into the past? We were just kids, let us leave it at that.”

  “Liv?”

  “I’m so glad we met this time. I really, really liked seeing you again,” she says, her gaze meeting mine, her warm breath brushing against my face. “And I’ll make sure I’ll call you when I come over again. It’s a promise. But now I think I should go.”

  I let go of her hand and stay here, frozen, watching her walk away. And it consumes me in a way I no longer thought possible, this feeling my life has just crumbled into tiny pieces all over again…

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  Brian and Olivia’s story continues in

  FREE FALLING

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