by Tara Pammi
“I love you, Toby. You have to come back to me. You’re a good person.” And she would tell him that as many times as it took. “Come back. Please, Toby. I love you.”
Toby’s eyelids fluttered and then a dazed brown gaze met hers. “Audrey?”
“Yes. Sweetheart. I’m here.”
“I...” He looked confused.
She leaned over the bed and kissed his forehead. “You listen to me, Tobias Daniel Miller. You are my family. The only one that counts. Don’t you ever try to leave me again.”
“If I wasn’t here you’d be okay with Mom and Dad.”
“I’d rather have you,” she promised.
“No, I—”
“Stop. I mean it, Tobe. You’re my brother and I love you. You know how much it hurts that Mom and Dad don’t love us because we aren’t exactly what they want us to be?”
His mouth twisted with pain, his dark eyes haunted. “Yes.”
“Times that by a million and then you’ll know how much I’d hurt if I lost you. Okay?”
Then she saw something in her little brother’s eyes that she would do anything to keep there. A spark of hope amidst the desolation.
“Okay.”
It was a promise. Toby wouldn’t give up on himself again and neither would Audrey. Not ever.
Copyright © 2013 by Lucy Monroe
ISBN-13: 9781460321232
A TOUCH OF TEMPTATION
Copyright © 2013 by Tara Pammi
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