Torn Between The Carter Brothers

Addison

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| wasn’t sure | had heard right at first. | blinked once, twice and a third time, but the image right in front of me

still wasn’t changing. Marco still had a soft, earnest but desperate look in his eyes.

“Addi? Did you hear me?” He whispered as | blinked once again.

“Uh- what...?” | began, still in a state of shock, and that was when Marci chose to step even closer, his hand still

cupping the side of my face as he spoke.

“I still care about you so much, Addison.” He revealed and my head reeked so much, it felt like | might pass out

right now. These are words that | desperately hoped to hear from him in the last five

years, | dreamt about this day more times than | can count, and now that it was right in front of me, | was

stunned out of my very mind.

| struggled hard to get a word out. “You really mean that?” My voice was low, on a whisper, cause again, this felt

like a dirty joke.

He nodded once, a grim expression on. “Yeah,”

The laugh I let out was to stop myself from hurting into tears, cause right now, my eyes were starting to sting.

My heartbeat was all over the place and | felt the urge to burst into tears right now, out flushed those urges

away fast.

‘I don’t understand, Marco... why did you keep it away fromthis whole time?” | asked quietly as

kept blinking up at him. This time, he finally dropped his hand from my face to drag it over his hair, a sigh falling

past his lips before his eyes met with mine again.

It's pretty complicated and there’s not enough tforto explain everything to you right now, but I'll explain

it all to you later, | promise, okay?” He breathed out as he reached up to cup my face

gain. His hand was very warm and | wanted to press my cheek into it even more but | stopped nyself from doing

that cause | was still very much confused right now and there's still a bunch of questions I'd like to ask.

Your wedding is still holding today, right?” | breathed out just as the urge to cry resurfaced in my

hroat all of a sudden.

He tensely nodded.

If that’s the case.... Then why are you tellingthis right now?” | asked after a few moments.

He let out another long sigh. “That's why | said it was complicated, Addison.” He started just as his second hand

cup to cup my face as well as he continued.

“| still care about you a lot, and | know you still care so much about me. So, just leave Zane alone, okay? And

wait for me, after the wedding, I'll cfor you, and then...”

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He was still speaking when | shoved at his chest, making him stumble, shocking myself and him cause | hadn't

even intended on doing that, it was very impulsive.

“What the-" he began just as | cut him off.

“Wait, you'll get married then still cto me? So, that means you intend to start cheating on your newly

wedded wife with me??!” | cried out, feeling so appalled that | might start laughing once again.

He quickly glanced around, a frown on his face before he stepped even closer to me. “Keep your voice down,

Addison.” He admonished but | rolled my eyes, too angry to care right now.

“Why don’t you just cancel the damned wedding if you still care about me? Why do

you have to get together with Aisha then start to cheat on her with me? That sounds very messed up!” | cried

out and he sighed as he dragged a hand across his face before he threw his head in the air.

“This is the only option | have in this situation, okay? That's why | said it's very complicated.” He breathed out

but I let out a laugh.

“So, if you're supposedly still in love with me, this means you don’t love Aisha?” | asked and when he didn’t

respond, | believed that was answer enough and another laugh fell past my lips cause | didn’t even know what to

think anymore at this point.

“Just, listen to me, Addison. | have this under control, okay?” He began as he reached for my hand, holding it

between his and stroking his thumb over my knuckles as he spoke. “Just leave my fucking brother, and wait for

me. You know he doesn’t deserve you, I'm the one who does and the one you really want anyway.”

He continued, arrogance bleeding into his words at the last part as he continued. “End things with him this

morning, then wait for me, after the wedding, I'll cfor you. | promise, okay?”

I nodded. “So, when you cforafter the wedding, what's gonna happen with the two of us?” | asked and

he shrugged like the answer was obvious enough.

“We'll start dating, of course, Or, we can start by testing the waters first and the likes. We’d basically be free to

do whatever it is that we want.” He explained, a grin tugging at the side of his lips and he even looked eager

right.

All what he was saying right now were words I've always dreamed of, however, it felt backward and not quite like

I dreamt of

And so, | let out a bitter laugh. “This means I'll be nothing but your dirty little secret, a hidden relationship,

something taboo. And at the stime, you'll be causing pain on your wife and it would be my fault.” | pointed

out and he sighed as he stepped forward.

“Addison...” he began but | shook my head firmly as | tugged my hand from his grip, feeling the urge to cry

again. It was taking all my willpower to not jump into his arms right now and agree to his terms, cause | was

trying to hold unto the last bit of self respect within me, especially seeing as |

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used to tell myself that | was in love but not stupid.

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“I'm sorry Marco, but | refuse to be your dirty little secret.” | breathed out as | folded my arms around my middle,

holding myself up so | wouldn't collapse on the ground.”

Marco's eyes widened, shock clearly written across his face. By his facial expression right now, it was clear that

he had expectedto sgrrr to his terms at once.

He frowned as he grabbed my shoulders. “But why? Why are you trying to be difficult? There’s no tfor this.”

I shook his hands off mg shoulders. “I'm not trying to be difficult, I'm just telling you what I can’t settle for. |

refuse to settle for something that little.”

His lips went into a thin line and he was clearly displeased, but | refused to look away from him, while my heart

pounded again within my chest.

“You're in love with me, right? So why the difficulty?!” He demanded and | sighed, there was no use denying that

right now.

“I might be in love with you, but that doesn’t mean I'll settle for anything.” | breathed out, feeling thankful that

my voice sounded as steady as | had hoped.

He sighed, a desperate look on his face as he tried to pullinto a hug. Usually, I'd melt into it immediately,

but this time, | used all my willpower to shove him away. | didht want to hug him, but when | was feeling so weak

right now.

“C'mon, Addison...” he sighed but | shook my head firmly.

“No, Marco. If you really want me, you have to drop everything to get me, or you can’t haveat all.” |

breathed out, and this time, | had to blink back there cause they threatened to fall.

Then | cleared my throat as | spoke next when he still remained silent and just kept staring down at

me.

“Good luck in your wedding today, Marco.”

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