#Chapter34

CONFRONTATIONS

VINCE

It took some time for me to process. Was she doing this out of grief? Or perhaps at the whim of the moment? I couldn’t do this like this. I didn’t kiss her back and cupped her cheeks as I pulled back.

“Joy,” I said with a soft voice, rubbing my thumbs on her skin. “I can’t do this right now.”

She seemed taken aback as if my words had snapped her back to reality. She tried to move back but I gripped the back of her neck and held her in place, the tip of our noses lightly brushing.

“I want you but not when you’re...