Mr. Ruin by Maya Hughes

Author:Maya Hughes [Hughes, Maya]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-01-07T18:30:00+00:00

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KILLIAN

I was losing her. Not that I’d had her, but I could tell her doubts were eating at her, gnawing at her. I knew what that did to you. How it could make you miss the things right in front of you.

We made it to the end of the exhibit and I knew my time was almost up.

“I have something to show you,” I said, reaching for her hand. She let me take it and I took that as a good sign. I led her to a garden just outside the doors of the exhibit. Peonies were everywhere.

“Your suggestion?” I asked. Her cheeks pinked up a bit.

“How did you know?” I raised my eyebrow and she laughed. “Yeah, I guess they’re kind of my thing.”

“They are,” I said, pulling out a chair for her. She took a seat.

“I have something for you.” I slid the thick envelope across the table.

“What is this?” she asked, picking it up and opening it. My palms were sweaty and I rubbed them on my pants.

As she read through the papers, her eyes got wide. She flipped through more than half before staring up at me.

“What? You’re giving me your company? But…but…”

“I own it outright as of a few months ago. It’s all mine. Everything I’ve ever worked for. Everything I’ve ever destroyed to get to this point, but I realize now, that it doesn’t matter. None of that matters, if I don’t have you. I’m giving it to you. You can do whatever you want with it.”

“Killian…” She shook her head. It wasn’t working. Desperation pushed me forward.

“You can sell it off. Use the money to do charity work here with your mom. Or give it all to Thayer. He’s gotten pretty good at giving all his money away.”

“You’d really be okay with me giving all this money to Rhys? Selling off the company you’ve worked so hard to build.”

“If you say you’ll stay with me. That you’ll give me another chance, I’d let you sell my company a hundred times.”

“I can’t do that,” she said, her hands wrapped tightly around the stack of paper. My heart sank. I felt like I was dropping fast, drowning under my own ambitions. I’d worked so hard and ended up losing the one thing I ever truly wanted.

“I can’t sell it off. I can’t do this.” She stood from the chair and I jumped up and wrapped my arms around her.

“I can’t do it without you, Rachel. I promised your mom that if you said no today, that I’d be able to walk away. That I would give you the space you needed, but I can’t promise that.” I held her face in my hands. “I can’t promise that because I will do anything it takes to get you to believe me. To make you understand how much you mean to me.”

“Killian, don’t,” she said, trying to pull away from me. Desperation tightened my chest and I pressed my lips to hers. She put her hands on my chest.

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