AN ALASKAN BUSH PEOPLE FAN FICTION Lila Jenkins meets Bam Brown and gets more than she bargained for when she moves back to Alaska to take over her dad's matchmaking magazine and business. Now, the story continues with Matt Brown meeting Jillian Hea...
Pride is always the longest distance between two people. Matt knew he should have never let her walk out of the bar. He had set a match to his own bridge and was now standing alone on the side of pride watching it burn.
He watched her walk away and said nothing, did nothing, after she had bared her soul on the beach that fateful day in Browntown when she returned to him.
He knew better. He never gave her the opportunity to explain her actions and tell him the reasons behind what she did. He realized his egregious error in judgement and pushed aside the glasses in front of him.
Bam and Gabe didn't say a word on the walk home with Jill. They didn't have to as her face said it all. Gabe and Bam had exchanged glances with one another shaking their head in disbelief that Matt didn't follow her. Their thoughts were almost sympatico as both men wanted to beat some sense into their brother. The best thing that had ever happened to him was broken like an old toy cast away in a corner. She thought she meant more to him. She thought they connected on a deeper level but maybe, just maybe, she had been blinded by his charm and boyish looks. Maybe he was still a little boy parading around in a man's body not adult enough to deal with the difficult emotions of adulthood.
Matt threw some money on his table and hurriedly walked to the door. He heard her voice call out, "Be seeing you soon!"
Matt stopped and turned around surveying the bar and the blonde and replied. "Never again!"
When the door of the bar closed, he shut the door to his past forever. He looked down the street and couldn't see her.
"Jillian!" He yelled her name at the top of his lungs and kept yelling it as he ran the distance back to the apartment.
She hesitated at the stairs to the apartment. "Did you hear that?" Bam and Gabe paused with her. In the faint distance, she could hear her name being called and it became louder and louder as it neared her.
Bam recognized the voice and nudged Gabe. They moved behind Jill as they saw Matt running towards them. They left Jill at the base of the stairs as she turned to see him streaking towards her like a comet through a night sky. His body slammed into hers practically knocking her down but he caught her around the waist before she fell. Out of breath and barely coherent, he kept repeating her name over and over.
"I'm sorry. You're the best thing that ever walked into my life. My pride..."
"Got in the way." She finished his sentence. His eyes begged for forgiveness but there was nothing to forgive. She was also responsible for what happened and she offered her apology.
"Mattie, I never doubted you would get the property. I believed that much in you that I made an investment in you and our future." She placed her hand on his cheek stroking it ever so softly. "I knew you would never take the money from me so I talked Mr. Jamison into letting you think he sold you the property."
Bam and Gabe left Jill and Matt outside and quietly slipped into the apartment leaving them to work out their relationship.
Matt buried his face in her neck, hugging her body. "Don't leave me."
"I'm afraid to be without you, Mattie. I'll never leave you again, never again." Jill pressed herself closer to him.
"My life started over that day on the beach when you showed me that empty box. I can't imagine my life without you." He held her like he was holding her for the first time. He had truly seen the woman she was, and he had decided that he was never letting her go ever again.
Lila peeked out the window trying to see what was happening downstairs. "What are they doing?"
Bam pulled her away from the window and replied with a half smile, They're doing the dance of love."
Matthew Jeremiah Brown
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