When Lily Langston goes to a game with her best friend. The last thing she ever thought to happen was being hit in the face with a ball.
But what left her even more shocked was when the guest pitcher himself, the known ruthless billionaire Hayes Gr...
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She sits beside me taking in the cities views as I drove through. I owed her drinks and I wasn't going to be the one to let her down.
I've never felt this close to Lily. After everything, after my mistakes she still sits comfortably beside me. Usually one would run for the hills after that, I'll spend my life making up for it.
But here she is content beside me just weeks later. I didn't know how to express my feelings for her, it was uncharted territory and honestly the most horrifying thought at the moment.
I wanted her, not just for four more months. I didn't want her to go, I didn't want her to up in leave, it scared me. Nothing scared me but here I was afraid to be abandoned by her. Technically it's far from abandonment, but for some reason I'll still feel it.
I wish I could just say the words. Like they came easily but they don't, and her feelings don't reciprocate. I know it's wrong to wait for the other person to say it, but I feel like that's the game I began.
But I think I'm the fool who thinks she loves me when it's just pure hatred. I've been busy and it's evidently upset her, my teams advising me to push a move to London. I'm against it, sternly and it's because of her. I refuse to uproot my life and lose her sooner. I think that in itself would kill me. But when the time comes and I lose her.
It'll be my way out, my way to grieve the only woman I ever loved. For some reason the words feel trapped inside of me and I know it's fear of rejection. The fear she doesn't feel the same, that what we have is some fantasy I've began to live in. Because I want it all with her. I'm all in.
But she might not be and that thought was burdening to me for some reason. She got in, she weaved her way into my heart just to leave me soon enough. So instead of being forward, I'm letting her live her life and not feel trapped with me.
I knew I'd need to end things soon, because I was getting attached, hell I was already in the deep end. Feelings scared me the most, because I didn't know what love was. How could I claim to be in it?
"I wonder what it's like to skydive, I mean how are people not afraid?" I glance over at her weirdly as she remains looking at the outside world.
"Heights kinda make me queasy so I refrain"
"You work and live on the top floor of skyscrapers? And that scares you" she giggles slightly "who knew Hayes Grant had fears"
I have many Lily.
I pull into valet and they take my keys as we enter the hotel lobby and I escort her to the bar.
"What drink can I get you?" Her eyes flutter up to me in thought.
"Mojito, but I can order it for myself?" I raise my hands as she takes her seat at the bar.
"A mojito and a scotch neat please" the bartender nods and steps away as I stare at her impressed.
