Read Online The Choice by Kate Benson - Free Book Online Page A

few years ago.”
    “How long were you together?”
    “A little over a year,” I tell her.
    “What happened?”
    “Nothing really,” I answer honestly. “We just wanted different things. She was fresh out of college, she wanted to travel and I couldn’t. She was ready to get married and I wasn’t. Not to mention, she wasn’t interested in the type of relationship I wanted. Typical stuff, I guess.”
    “ A relationship like ours, you mean?”
    “Yes.”
    “So you didn’t have a big fight or anything?”
    “No,” I sha ke my head. “She got a job offer in Georgia and asked me to go with her, but I had just started the company so it wasn’t really an option. We talked about trying something long distance, but we both knew time would be an issue with our careers. What it really came down to is we just weren’t in love.”
    “Wow,” she says.
    “So we decided it wasn’t worth ruining a friendship over, she took the job and that was that.”
    “Y ou’re still friends with her?”
    “Yes, altho ugh we rarely talk. We’re both busy, she’s still in Georgia running her own business, living her dream and now I’m living mine,” I say as I kiss her gently on her temple. “I think she’ll be at Emily’s wedding, so you’ll meet her when we go to Florida.”
    “So I guess we’ve established I’m going to Florida with you,” she says drily, causing me to laugh, kissing her temple again.
    “Analise, will you please come to Florida with me?”
    “Yes, thank you for asking.”
    “Do you have any other creepy questions about my ex?”
    “First of all, they’re not creepy! Second, yes but only two.”
    “Okay, shoot ?”
    “Do you still love her?”
    “Yes,” I say honestly, squeezing her when she tenses in front of me. “Not in the same way as I did, though. I love her as a dear friend.” Seeming to accept this, she nods. “Next question.”
    “Did you cry when things ended between the two of you?”
    “No.”
    “Did you cry for me?”
    “Yes,” I whisper as I hold her tighter to me.    
    “Really?” she asks, turning to face me with unveiled happiness in her eyes.
    “Every d ay,” I confess.
    “Really? You cried every day for me?”
    “I have to say I’m a little disturbed that you’re so happy about my distress,” I tease her and she playfully smacks my chest.
    “I’m never happy about your distress,” she argues. “I just didn’t think you missed me as much as I missed you. You never showed it.”
    “The month I spent without you was the worst of my life,” I confess as I turn her to face me. “If I didn’t see us working things out, I never would have survived it, Analise.” I began to trace her lips with the pad of my thumb and search her face. “I love you so much, Baby.”
    “I love you, too,” she whispers and presses her lips to mine as she wraps her arms around my neck. Slipping her tongue into my mouth, I swallow her moan as I lean her back onto the sand below us and lay her out beneath me.
    Resting on my elbow to keep my weight off of her, I deepen the kiss, running my hand up the side of her waist and gripping her shirt into my hand. Gently tracing her lips with my tongue, I feel her breathing quicken and I gaze down at her, watching the flames from the fire beside us light her features.
    “You’re breathtaking, my Love,” I whisper down at her and run my lips down her neck, stopping once I reach her collarbone to push the front of her shirt up higher. Placing light kisses over her navel and across her stomach, I raise my head up to face her. “ I need inside you, Baby. Take this off.”
    Without hesitation, Analise lifts her sweater over her head and places it under her head before stretching back out in front of me. 
    Pulling her breast into my mouth, her hand moves to the back of my head affectionately and her chest begins to rise and fall more rapidly as I flick my tongue over her nipple. Reaching between us, I begin rubbing her sex over the