✨EXCERPT: NEVER STOPPED LOVING YOU by @siobhandavisauthor releasing February 17th!
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“I’m glad I can be here to help you until Seán arrives,” he says, handing me a glass of water and two pain pills.
“He’s not coming. He has important meetings he can’t get out of.”
“I see.” His lips purse.
“I told him not to come,” I lie, feeling the need to defend my fiancé though I’m not sure why. “I’ll be fine in a day or two.” I pop the pills as he reaches behind him to grab something from the chair.
“Here. The lady in the chemist said this would help with the cramping.” He hands me a heating pad before settling back in the chair.
Tears build behind my eyes, and I have to force myself not to thank him again as I slide the pad under the covers and place it on my stomach, closing my eyes and sighing as the warmth eases the pain. “You don’t need to stay, Callan. You should go.”
“I’m not leaving you alone.”
My eyes pop open. “I’ll be fine.”
“I want to be here, and I’m staying. Travis can handle things at the office tomorrow.”
Tears leak out of my eyes. The man who devastated my heart is the one showing up for me now, and I’m so confused. Callan is prepared to prioritize me in the way my fiancé isn’t, but this isn’t right. I’m all torn up, feeling like my relationship is irrevocably broken and guilty for taking the comfort my ex is offering when I shouldn’t because he hurt me so much. Even if I don’t know the truth, you can’t erase the years of pain I suffered because of him. It’s all too much right now. “Don’t do this.” I sob.
“Don’t ask me to leave you alone. Not when you’re in pain. You heard what the doctor said. Someone needs to be with you.”
“It can’t be you, Callan.”
He sinks to his knees. “But it should be,” he whispers. “It was always supposed to be me.”
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