Imogen by Lisa Helen Gray

Author:Lisa Helen Gray [Gray, Lisa Helen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-02-17T18:30:00+00:00

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Imogen is doing her best to keep a distance between us at the church’s community centre. An older lady brought us back to a private room, where a bunch of presents were waiting to be wrapped. Imogen talked her way into helping with the food, but that only lasted until an hour ago. Now, she’s back in the room with me. With so many presents already here, as well as the toy collection Evan gathered from friends and family, we are going to be here all night. It’s already three in the afternoon, and this isn’t how I imagined my first day going.

“Are you going to talk to me?” I demand, putting down a creepy-looking baby doll.

“No!” she replies, then goes back to the box of Lego she’s wrapping.

And doing an awful fucking job.

I step over to where she is, removing the scissors from her hand before she decides to stab me with them.

“Fuck’s sake. Talk to me.”

She throws the tape on the table and pushes me back. “Will you just fucking stop! You said it didn’t mean anything to you. I respected that. But then today you say… Fuck, you’re messing with my head, Ben. Nothing has changed from then until now. So just fucking stop!”

I step closer, caging her in against the wall. “I want to stay away,” I grit out. “I need to. But I can’t.”

“You need to move,” she breathes out, and her eyelids flutter closed when I run my hand along her jaw.

“I can’t seem to leave you alone,” I rasp, my words pained.

She tilts her head up, her doe eyes meeting mine. “This isn’t fair,” she whispers.

I lean down, running my nose along her jaw until my lips are at her ear. “Nothing about this is fair,” I admit, then my tone turns into a plea. “Please, don’t go on a date with him.”

She pushes me back, and since I wasn’t expecting it, I fall back against the table. “I’m going.”

“Wait,” I call out as she grabs her bag.

“No, I’m not doing this with you. I’m not some fucking toy. I’m a person. And unless you can commit to whatever this is, I’m done, Ben. You might be able to fuck and detach yourself, but I can’t. I’m not that person. So if you want to get laid, go find someone else,” she seethes, before leaving the room.

I drop down on the chair, scrubbing my hands down my face. I want her. I’ve wanted her for a long time. And she’s right. She doesn’t deserve this. This isn’t how I want to treat her or make her feel.

I have to get my head together before it’s too late.

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