Scandalizing the CEO

I’ll keep trying to convince you no matter how long it takes,”

I was afraid and I never wanted to feel the same vulnerability that I saw in your eyes. I love you so much and I hope that you still love me.”

She was so afraid of letting Steven in, but she knew she had to do it; otherwise she would spend the rest of her life wondering what might have been.

You just have to trust your heart.”

she wasn’t going to risk her heart on a maybe.

She’d just kept it here because she loved a man who was afraid to admit that he loved her.

A part of her wanted him to come back to her because he had been the one to walk away.

He wanted a different future.

“I’m so afraid. I still love him. How can I say no to a chance to have him in my life? It’s what I’ve dreamed of.”

No amount of thinking or rationalizing that was going to make the tears he saw in her eyes okay. He should never have been so brutal.