Forever Ours (The Billionaire Next Door Book 8) (4 page)

My heart rattled in my chest.

Were we?
I mean, wasn’t that what I was thinking earlier, when I was trying on
the wedding dresses? Maybe Luke was right.

I sighed.

I didn’t even know what I felt or thought
anymore. Everything was a jumble of confusion. A sickly feeling formed in my
stomach.

“I can’t deny that I’ve thought about you over
the years. Actually, I’ve thought about you a lot.”

The smile reappeared on his face. He took my
hand in his and I didn’t pull back.

“See? We can’t stop thinking about each other.
Don’t you want that house in Maine,
near the ocean? We can both work at the most prestigious hospital in North America, together. God, I’ve thought about this a
thousand times over the past few years. Think about it, Sophia. I know you want
me.”

A thousand thoughts raced through my head.

“Oh Luke, I did want that. I wanted it badly.”

Luke smiled.

“Then take it.” He stepped closer to me and I
put my hand on his chest. The visions of what our life could be like
overwhelmed me. His sweater vest felt soft under my hand. His scent brought back
a rush of emotions and memories that had been tucked away in my subconscious
for years. I thought about the ocean-side house in Maine that we talked endlessly about owning
one day back in school. I thought about our hypothetical children, Darren,
Mikey
, and little Suzie. I thought about peer-reviewing
each other’s medical research articles.

“Luke.” I looked up at his face. I was ready
to tell him
no
. I was ready to tell him that I loved Jason. Jason was
the one for me and there was nothing that Luke and his change of heart could do
to stop it. I couldn’t drop everything just because Luke decided he made a
mistake some odd years ago. But as soon as I was going to form the word ‘no’,
the desire on his face brought back a deep longing I didn’t know I had. “But,
Jason
…”

Luke pulled me in by the waist and before I
could say no, he kissed me. The kiss was simple and sweet, but it lingered. I
didn’t kiss him back but I also did nothing to stop it.

“Sophia?”

My stomach dropped to the floor. Everything
inside me turned to ice.

I knew that voice so well that I could pick it
out from a crowd of a hundred.

Pulling back from Luke, I hope against all
hope that what I heard was my imagination and not the real person. I turned and
saw what I feared the most: Jason — shocked, hurt, and everything else in
between. He shook his head, not in a disapproving way, but in disbelief.

“How could you do this?” Jason asked. The hurt
on his face stabbed me in the heart with the pain of a thousand knives.

Before I could say anything, Jason turned and
stormed off.

“Jason, wait!” I yelled out, but he was already
gone.

In just those few moments, everything I had disappeared.

To be
continued…

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Forever
Ours
is the eighth installment of The Billionaire Next
Door series. The series includes:

All
Yours
(The Billionaire Next Door #1)

For
You
(The Billionaire Next Door #2)

My
Love
(The Billionaire Next Door #3)

Just
Us
(The Billionaire Next Door #4)

With
Me
(The Billionaire Next Door #5)

You
and I
(The Billionaire Next Door #6)

All
of Me
(The Billionaire Next Door #7)

Forever
Ours (The Billionaire Next Door #8)

The One
(The Billionaire Next Door #9)

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