To hear Cinda state she loved him, then kiss him so softly, a kiss filled with love, and he knew it, kissed her back in the same manner, as he held her to himself, then to state she’d always loved him. Gabe knew he’d royally screwed things up all of them years ago, had loved her himself all that time, had just denied himself the right to, scared it would destroy his relationship with his mother.
So he had pushed it aside and shoved it all the way down inside himself to try and not think about it, to not feel it, to keep them apart, wondered if he’d not done that, could they have come together sooner, it was always possible. He had known it was always going to have to be him to make the first move, after what he had said to her that day, he'd just stubbornly refused to do so.
Told himsel
