I Love Him...And Him?

I Love Him...And Him? Chapter 8

After working for a few hours, Riley decided to take her break. As she was walking down the hallway that she usually worked on. She passed an empty room that brought tears to her eyes. Out of habit, Riley knocked twice before entering room number 326. The name plate on the door read Lyle Harrison. She walked in to Mr. Harrison's empty room and looked around. Mr. Harrison was still in the hospital, recovering from his fall. The room was exactly the same as it had been before he left.

Mr. Harrison had always had a love for hanging pictures all over his room. Riley studdied the pictures of new parents beaming at their newborn baby. There were pictures of small kids with messy faces, sticking their tounges out to the camera. Old polaroids of weddings and children. There were also hand draw pictures and pages ripped from a coloring book, clearly made by four or five year old artists. As she sat down on the empty bed, Riley's eyes welled up with tears. She heard the door creak and looked up to see Miles walk in.

She quickly swiped at her eyes, hoping he wouldn't notice. She had no such luck. Miles shut the door and was at her side in a second. He sat down and wrapped his arms around her. "Are you okay?" He sounded so worried. Riley just nodded, trying to convince them both that she was okay. Miles looked down at her and She made the horrible mistake of meeting his gaze. His hypnotzing blue eyes sucked in in an instance and she couldn't move away. Miles lowered his mouth towards Riley's. When their lips met, every single emotion she had been feeling suddenly went away and all she knew was that she wanted Miles closer.

She wrapped her arms around his neck and tangles her hands in his hair. When he traced her tongue with his bottom lip, Riley didn't hesitate to open her mouth and let him in. Miles's hands were everywhere. They started on her face and went to her shoulders. He moved his hands to her hips and underneath her top. He moved his mouth away from her mouth and moved in to her neck. Miles's mouth moved across Riley's collarbone and back up the other side of her neck. His mouth met hers again and his hands continued to move. Something snapped inside of Riley and she was brought back to reality. "Miles stop. We need to stop."

Miles pulled away and

Miles pulled away and looked at her again. His face was so many emotions that Riley couldn't tell how he was feeling. She looked at her hands. "I'm sorry. But we can't keep doing this. Not only because we're at work but because-"

He cut her off. "I know that you're engaged Riley, you don't need to keep saying it, he snapped. Riley was surprised, he had never said anything harsh to her before.

"Ok, jeez. Don't get mad because I won't have sex with you at work!" She tried to keep her voice low so no one would hear their conversation.

Miles ran a frusturated hand through his hair. "Oh come on. You know damn well that I'm not frusturated because you won't have sex with me at work. I am sick and tired of you ignoring what you know is true. You know as well as I do that there is something between us. But instead, you give in to your feelings just a little bit, only to be pulled back because some guy has you convinced that you are meant to be with him." He turned away from her and sighed a deep, heavy sigh.

Riley jumped up off the bed. "Ok, Miles. Now you get to listen to me. I am not ignoring the truth. I know that there is something between us ok? I feel that little spark and I am attracted to you. However, I am not engaged to Mike because he has me convinced that I want to be with him. I am engaged to him because I love him. And I am not willing to throw that all away and try to start over because a charming guy made me think that I had feelings for him."

He narrowed his eyes and looked at her. "Riley, why do you love Mike?" She looked at him like was crazy so he went on. "It's a simple question. Why do you love Mike?" He said Mike's name like it was poison on his tounge.