Unbreakable 2, The Mystery of Lilly (Cypress Grove Series) by Amie Nichols Read Free Book Online Page A

alone. 
                  "What's wrong, Luke?" I finally ask after a second of silence and him not making any move to touch me.
                  "Nothing" he snaps.  His tone hurts more than the pain in my ribs and I couldn't hide the hurt from that.  I walk up the steps of the giant front porch away from Luke as I feel the tears prick my eyes. 
                  "Lilly, stop," he says while running to catch up to me.  He grabs my arm to turn me around.  I still have bruises up and down my arms from being dragged in the woods and Luke lets go of me as soon as he realizes he was causing me more pain.
                  "Do you still love me?"
                  "Lilly," is all he says and it feels like a sucker punch right in the middle of my gut.  Oh my God, what is happening, he doesn't love me and he probably never did.  All of what has happened has made him realize this. 
                  "Oh my God!" I start hyperventilating as it starts to sink in. Bending over, my hands on my knees, I feel as if I'm going to faint. 
                  "Lilly, look at me," he says softly and all I can do is try to breathe. "I love you, God do I love you.  I love you so much it hurts."
                  "My love is not enough, I have never protected you like you deserve.  I couldn't keep you safe from Jane and I couldn't keep you safe from him." Luke's voice cracks as he talks and I look up at him.
                  "What are you saying?" I don't want to hear the answer because I don't think I can take it.  My heart is being shred into a million pieces and I can barely breathe. 
                  "You deserve so much better and you deserve someone that can keep you safe." His eyes are looking everywhere but at me.  Is he really trying to leave me, because he doesn't think he can keep me safe?  Is he really going to break me into so many tiny pieces that no one will ever be able to put me back together again?
                  "Is this a joke, Luke, some kind of sick fucking joke?" I scream wanting to get into his head and shake some sense into him.  My body is trembling so hard that I feel like the ground is shaking below me.  He won't even look at me and it makes me mad, it makes me so mad that I don't even want him to look at me and I don't want to look at him. 
                  "You're a fucking coward!" I shout and this makes him look at me and the stunned look in his eyes gives me satisfaction.  That's right, Luke, I just called you a coward. What do you have to say to that?
                  What he did I did not expect, and what was left of my heart went with him as he turned and got in the SUV and drove away from me.  Breaking every promise he ever made to me, leaving me like he said he never would again and I could do nothing.  I didn't yell after him, I didn't go in the house. I just stood there in complete shock.  Tears streaming down my face uncontrollably, I stood there for what seemed like hours before Jacob came out of the house and guided me inside. 
                  He sat me down at the table in the freshly painted kitchen, everything clean and shiny. New state of the art appliances had replaced the old ones and I didn't care.               
                  Lucy sat next to me not saying a word, neither of them asking what was wrong or what happened. No doubt they heard the shouting and already knew.  I didn't want to talk and I didn't want to be in this house.  I didn't want to be anywhere and I didn't know what I was going to do.  My whole world was crashing around me, and what I thought was the worst experience I would ever have to face when I was kidnapped by Matt Henning was nothing to what I was experiencing right now.
                  Jacob places a cup of tea in front of me and takes the seat across from me.