DARE-TO-LOVE-TRUTH-AND-DARE-DUET-COLLECTION-by-Lylah-James-pdfarchive

talk to me. But Riley was loyal to a fault. She didn’t know
why I had to walk away, but she knew how much it hurt me.
I never ran away from my problems, but I had to run
away from Maddox. He was my one weakness, and I knew
the moment I took a look at his broken stare, his wounded
blue eyes – I’d fall back into his arms. It would turn into a
vicious, never-ending cycle.
“Hey, Lila!” I flinched away from my thoughts and
turned toward the sound of my name.
My co-worker snapped her fingers in my face and gave
me a questioning look. “Stop day-dreaming. No time for
that.”
I wiped my wet hands on my apron. “I’ll serve the next
table.” I went to take the tray from her hand, but she held
it out of my way.
Amanda fished for something from the front pocket of
her apron. She placed a blue post-it note, folded in half, in
my open palm. “He told me to give you this.”
My heart thudded. “He?”
Amanda shrugged and walked away. I unfolded the note,
and my heart cracked, my chest burning with misery.
You didn’t even give me a chance to kiss you
goodbye.
I looked up and caught Maddox's eyes through the
window of the restaurant. His tortured eyes held mine for a
single second, a throbbing moment, a painful heartbeat,
before he blinked and walked away. Maddox disappeared in
the crowd, with only his note, as a reminder that he had
been here.
We were strangers, once again.
This was more than a note about our last goodbye. He
was letting me know he had given up. Maddox wasn’t going
to fight for us anymore. It almost killed me where I stood,
for a second, my heart ceased to beat.
I should have been happy about this – it was what I
wanted, after all. I had been avoiding him for over three