Forever More - {The Rev/Synyster Gates - Book 1} -

Chapter 20

I am so sorry that it took me so long for this little chapter. I hope you can forgive me.

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Katie’s POV

He pressed his lips gently on mine and my body felt as if it was on fire. Fireworks were exploding in my chest and butterflies were invading my stomach. I got weak in the knees so I wrapped my arms around his neck which made him tense in surprise but his arms flew around my form just seconds later. It felt so incredibly good and so right.

He pulled away but still held me close to his body. My hands ran from the back of his neck over his shoulders to his chest where I could feel his heart beating just as rapidly as mine was. I looked up and saw him beaming down at me with his eyes sparkling with pure happiness. I couldn’t help but smile brightly back at him.

He said he was in love with me! Just thinking about that made me doubting my sanity and my heart skipped more than just a beat. Feeling his strong arms around me and the touch of his hands through my shirt sent shivers down my spine and goosebumps appeared on my arms. I couldn’t believe what was happening!

Only moments before I thought I had lost everything, my heart and my very best friend, but now it seemed like I could get it back. All of it. I would be able to stay here and build a better relationship with my birth parents and my brother. And maybe this, whatever this was between Brian and me, would work as well. The prospect of being with him made me giggle.

He grinned and brushed a strand of hair out of my face. His light touch left a tingling feeling my skin and sent new shivers down my spine. This was what I had always been looking for in a relationship. I always wanted to feel so light and giggly with my stomach full of butterflies and my heart skipping a beat. And it was unbelievable that I felt it with him. Yesterday he asked Michelle to marry him and now …

Michelle.

What was about her? They were engaged now. Oh god, I was destroying a relationship. I was the ‘other woman’, a role I’ve never wanted to play. My ex-boyfriends always left me for other women so I swore myself never to be that woman. I frowned and stepped out of Brian’s embrace which made him frown as well.

“Baby, what’s wrong?” Oh god, him calling me baby made me weak all over again. “Did I do something?”

“We can’t do this.” I wrapped my arms around myself and looked down to my feet because I was afraid of what I would see in his eyes.

“Katie, what …” I felt his hand lightly cupping my cheek when his phone went off. I looked up and without taking his hand away from my cheek he fished for his phone and looked at the screen. I knew exactly who it was. Not just because his face paled noticeably but it was also a gut feeling that I had. His brown eyes looked back into my blue ones and then he answered the call.

“Michelle.” I could see him tense but he never looked away from me. Not once.

“I don’t know when I’ll come home.” His thump caressed my cheek and it felt so good and sweet I had to lean into it. I put my hand on his and held it in place. A small smile was playing around his lips and the look in his eyes softened as I kissed his palm.

Without saying goodbye or anything he hung up and shoved the phone back into his pocket. He put his other hand on my other cheek and cupped my face before placing a soft kiss onto my lips. Again my body felt funny and incredibly light. My heart was screaming for me to give in, to finally be with him, to give myself completely to him. But my mind was beating me up about destroying a relationship, for causing such pain, for being the other woman.