Yours Completely (Reign 2)

“Decide what? Who broke my heart more? Who destroyed my trust better?”

“No, decide who you wanted back.”

I scoffed and shook my head. “All this time, you lied to my face.”

“I was trying to give us a chance. Trying to give you and Jack a chance. Everything got messed up after that meeting between him and your dad and Brock.” He shook his head. “We were going to tell you.”

“That doesn’t make it better, Cal!” My breath was catching, and the world wouldn’t hold still. “Everything you said, the both of you said, was a lie.”

“No, it’s not. I love you. Jack loves you. We never lied about that.”

“He left! People who love don’t leave.”

“Jack – he has his own issues. He had to go, he needed time,” Cal admitted. “And then after we… then I wanted him to stay gone, so I could have time. With you.”

“So you two held to your agreement? How noble.”

“Lana, please,” he took another step.

“Don’t. Don’t you dare,” I said. I walked past him into the bedroom and pulled on my pants and jacket.

“What are you doing?” Cal asked.

“I’m leaving,” I said.

“No.”

“You don’t get to tell me what to do,” I said, and put on my boots and walked back to the kitchen, grabbing my prescription.

“We never meant to hurt you. We tried to give you a choice.”

“And what if Jack and I never broke up? Then what?”

Something heavy in Cal’s eyes pierced my stomach. “I wouldn’t have interfered. And I would have spent the rest of my life wondering.”

“Well, you don’t have to wonder anymore. I gave you everything I had left to give,” I sobbed. “And you broke it.” I wiped the back of my hand over my eyes and winced from the pain of my cheek and the pain of my world crashing down.

Something like water looked to line Cal’s eyes.

“Please, love, don’t go,” he begged, a sharp edge catching in his voice. “Remember when I held you, I asked you to remember that moment. Remember that even when things get hard…remember that moment.”

“The one where you promised you’d always be on my side? That you’d always chase after me? That you’d fight for me and with me?”

He nodded.

Tears streamed down my face. “That moment doesn’t matter anymore.” I looked him in the eyes. “Because your promises mean nothing. You’ve already won. You got me to feel for you. Got me to move away from Jack and toward you. I don’t want you to chase me anymore.”

“But, I love you.”

“People who love also don’t lie,” I whispered.

His phone buzzed, it was Jack calling.

I glanced at it, then at him. “You better get that.”

With that, I walked out the door.

Chapter 25