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She reached out and placed a hand on my thigh. “Dylan has been a wreck trying to find a way to tell you without upsetting you.”
“Then he didn’t do a good enough job then, did he?” I growled.
“No perhaps not. But be honest with me; haven’t there been times when you thought about just dropping off the face of the earth for a while and living a normal life?”
“The problem is that we’ll never be normal people, never again. All us taking a break is going to do is kill the high we’re on right now. But we’re always going to have to deal with the craziness.”
“Maybe you’re right. But everyone needs a break now and again. He’s drained, Zack.”
I covered her hand with mine.
“Sometimes you have to let people go on their own path, even if it’s just for a little while…” she continued.
I gave her an odd look. Were we still talking about Dylan, or were we taking about her as well? I’d been gone for a week. Maybe things had progressed between the two of them and I was being left at the wayside, both professionally and personally.
“He may not be gone forever. He just needs to take a break for the time being, that’s all.”
“What about you?”
“What do you mean, what about me?” Her face flushed and I could tell right away she wasn’t telling me the whole story.
“What aren’t you telling me, Violet?”
“I….” She averted her gaze confirming me suspicions.
“Has something happened between you and Dylan since I’ve been gone? I thought we were…” I didn’t know how to word what I was trying to say. Honestly, it was because I wasn’t sure what we’d been before I’d left. I loved her, even if I had never told her outright.
Her brow creased and her green eyes took on a look of confusion. “Were what?”
I groaned out loud running my hands through my hair in frustration before lacing my fingers behind my neck. I couldn’t lose her too. I couldn’t lose them both. One was hard enough.
Like a Band-Aid, right off, I coached myself. It would be less painful for both of us that way.
“Violet, you know I’m in love with you.”
Her mouth dropped open as she stared at me.
That really wasn’t the reaction I was hoping for, especially since this was the first woman I’d professed my love to since I was a teenager. I never allowed myself to fall in love, but here it was, I was laying it on the table, and she was simple staring at me with a blank expression on her face. It seriously couldn’t have been that big a surprise, could it?
Giving her head a shake, she asked, “Why haven’t you told me before now?”
Now it was my turn to be at a loss for words. “Things seemed to be going good for the three of us. I just never thought it was necessary.”
“Not necessary? Why wouldn’t it be necessary?”
It was time for me to flip the table on her. “You’ve never told me.”
I could have been off-base, but I didn’t think I was. I could see it in the way that she looked at me, she cared for me just as much as I cared for her.
“I—”
Capturing her chin in my hand, I stared deep into those memorizing green eyes of hers and took a gamble. “Can you look me in the eye and tell me you don’t love me, Violet?”
She closed her eyes and when she opened then I could see the love that she’d been trying so desperately to hide. “Yes. Yes, of course I love you.”
I was about to lean forward and kiss her when she placed her hand out and pressed her palm against my chest, holding me back. Tears began to well up in her eyes, causing concern to radiate though me. “But I’m in love with Dylan as well. In an ideal world I could have you both and we could all live happily ever after.”
So many questions raced through my mind, as Violet and I stared deep into each other’s eyes that I didn’t know where to start. Dylan and I had shared sex toys in the past. And by toys, I mean girls. But we’d never been in love with them at the same time. I didn’t know for sure if Dylan was in love with her or not, but I suspected he was.
