My rating: 3 of 5 stars
3 ⭐⭐⭐ - OK decent reads.
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Our heroine is pregnant with her boyfriend's kid, but he does not want commitment so they have a break.
She returns to her home town and there she meets Nick again, her first love. The one who betrayed her and broke her heart.
It's been sixteen years and she's never forgotten him.
An okay story with some parallel twists.
A crazy accident that Maddie couldn’t be sorry about. Even though it scared her. Even though it had made Roger turn away from her.
He’d said he needed time. Time to decide whether he was ready to be a husband and father.
Nick’s betrayal. And the long days and weeks she’d cried over losing him.
“How is Diana?” He shifted to lean against the examining table, and a shadow flickered across his features. “She died. About a year and a half
“Maybe we could get together sometime,” he said. “Talk about old times.” Maddie shook her head, her eyes wide and wary. “I don’t think so, Nick.”
For four years, Maddie had been the only light in his life, the dream that had kept him from succumbing to the reality of his world. He’d always loved her.
And he’d proved that, hadn’t he? He’d taken everything she had to give—body and soul—and then thrown it away.
“So what happened?” Maddie propped her elbow on the table and rested her chin on her hand. “Diana happened.”
Then she’d gone off to college, and he’d found Diana.
She’d trusted Nick once, and it had been one of the biggest mistakes of her life. Right up there with believing in Roger.
She’d loved and trusted both Nick and Roger. And both men had left her alone and hurting.
This Nick Ryan was a man who’d fulfilled his ambitions and become a doctor. And he’d done it without her.
He had no right to Maddie’s comfort. He’d chosen Diana over Maddie sixteen years ago. How could he ask anything of her now? How could he pull her into the mess he’d made of his life?
His motives had all been selfish. He’d wanted the comfort she could give him, the forgiveness he’d waited sixteen years to ask for. But he didn’t deserve either.
He’d made his choices sixteen years ago. And now he’d just have to live with them.
“Men never feel guilty. They don’t even know what the word means.”
Maddie didn’t know what to say. Diana had been everything Maddie wasn’t in high school—pretty and popular. And she’d ended up with Nick.
Studying the dark-eyed beauty in the picture, Maddie understood how Nick had fallen in love with the other girl.
“Nick, why aren’t you building your house on this hill?” At first, she thought he wouldn’t answer. When he finally spoke, she could barely hear him. “Because Diana never belonged here.”
Once she’d believed that Nick would always love her. She’d paid for that mistake dearly.
“I married Diana because she was pregnant with my child.”
“How dare you. How dare you talk to me about how you suffered. You had Diana and a son. You had a ticket to becoming a doctor. I had nothing. Not even the knowledge of what had happened.”
A few months without Maddie, and Nick had jumped into bed with the first willing female. Noble sacrifice indeed. How naive did he think she was?
As Ted Eagen’s son-in-law, however, Nick had walked right into the best pre-med program in the state, and she’d been willing to bet that Ted had financed the whole thing. It made her blood boil.
There was a certain irony to the whole thing. Diana’s son becoming close to Maddie, the woman who should have been Nick’s wife. But somehow he didn’t find it all that amusing.
“I got drunk. Or more exactly, Diana and I got drunk. And the next thing I knew, we were in the back seat of her car.” He paused and took a breath. “The next morning, I knew I’d screwed up. I didn’t know how badly yet, but I knew things would never be the same between you and I.”
“Yes, Maddie. I loved her. Not at first. But I learned to love her.”
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