Chapter 10. Respect or Fear?

AIDAN

I knew without a doubt that Tara didn’t want me around her diner, but I couldn’t bring myself to leave.

There were a million unanswered questions and an even greater number of impossible things that surrounded the events between us. There were explanations that I just couldn’t wrap my head around, but I still couldn’t dare leave her side. Not when I was hung up on her scent like an addict.

I lingered around the premises of diner for goddess knows how long, making sure she didn’t see me of course, watching her attend to her customers with a glint in her mesmerizing eyes. I watched her laugh freely with the people around her, and all I could feel was the hurt from eight years ago.

The hurt I felt when we parted ways. The betrayal I felt from seeing pictures of Tara hugging and kissing another man who wasn’t me.

She denied it all, and she said she was having our child, and I didn’t believe her. Now, eight years later, all it took was one look