His jaw jutted forward. “Don’t do this.”
“Do what? Tell the truth?”
“We’ve had fun.” He took a step back. “Can’t we leave it at that?”
“Looks like we’re going to have to, aren’t we?”
“I don’t want you to hate me.”
“I don’t hate you. I…” Kelsey almost laughed when she realized she was about to tell him she loved him. Talk about bad timing. “I want to thank you. You and your family opened my mind and my heart to everything I was missing out on before.”
“Missing?”
“Happily ever after and all that stuff.”
His eyes widened. “Does that include marriage?”
“Only time will tell. Right now, I’m taking tiny baby steps.” Those, however, felt like Sasquatch-size strides at the moment. “Though I will admit, I don’t and won’t ever buy into the ‘one love in a lifetime’ you Addisons subscribe to.”
Thank goodness. Otherwise, she would be spending the rest of her life alone since she was sure Will could never be hers.
He stared at her, an unreadable expression on his face.
“But I can easily live with true love.” She flipped her hair behind her shoulder and looked him squarely in the eyes. “I just wonder how you can live without it.”
* * *
Don’t walk away from her!As he leftKelsey’s room, Will ignored the voice crying out in his head. Ignored the way her words had rocked his world. Ignored how walking out of her room felt like one of the stupidest things he’d ever done.
But he had no choice.
“It would never work,” he said out loud as he entered the kitchen. “I had my chance.”
“Talking to yourself, big brother?” Faith’s eyes were red from crying, but the tears no longer flowed. “It must be serious.”
“It’s nothing.”
Faith raised a perfectly arched brow. “Then why do you look as if you’ve lost your best friend?”
BecauseI have.
The thought slammed into him with the force of a three-hundred-pound offensive lineman. What was he thinking? Kelsey wasn’t his best friend. He hardly knew her.
The last thing he felt was indifference, but he shrugged anyway.
Faith poured him a cup of coffee. “This doesn’t have anything to do with Kelsey, does it?”
“Why would you think that?”
“I noticed the glances the two of you exchanged. What’s going on?”
“Nothing.”
“Your choice or hers?”
“Mine.”
“How do you feel about her?”
