Wanted by Her Lost Love

were okay again. I did myself a huge disservice.”“Kelly…”Something in her look silenced him and he stoodseveral feet away, a feeling of helplessness grippinghim as he watched her try to compose herself.“I sat there tonight while your friends and yourmother looked at me in disgust, while they looked atyou with a mixture of pity and disbelief in their eyes.All because you took me back. The tramp whobetrayed you in the worst possible manner. And Ithought to myself I don’t deserve this. I’ve neverdeserved it. I deserve better.”She raised her eyes to his and he flinched at thehorrible pain he saw reflected there. Then shelaughed. A raw, terrible sound that grated across hisears.“And earlier tonight you forgave me. You stoodthere and told me it no longer mattered whathappened in the past because you forgave me andyou wanted to move forward.”She curled her fingers into tight balls and rageflared in her eyes. She stood and stared him downeven as tears ran in endless streams down her