I tried a new format for writing this chapter instead of switching back and forth for point of view. Let me know what you think or if you want me to go back to the old format??????????

Chapter 9

I see Chance walking towards me with a very pissed off look on his face. I smirk this should teach him a lesson. I turn back to look at Lance who really does have a mellifluous voice.

“Leah this has gone far enough I need to talk to you now!!!”

I look up at him. Oh hell no he didn’t just come up to me all demanding. My thoughts were raging out of control. I have lived my hole life trying to please people. The one time I thought I found the one person who was different “uf”. My thoughts were caught off when Chance pulls me off the rock I was sitting on.

“What the hell is your problem!”

“You are my problem. You don’t want to listen to me and I’m getting really tiered of watching my woman hang around that damn guy over there.”

I struggle to get out of his grasp and he turns and throws me over his shoulder.

“Guess we have to do this the hard way.”

I must admit that under any other circumstance this cave man act of his would be a major turn on. But at the moment I’m mad as hell. Shit he wouldn’t listen to me and just dismissed me with the flick of his hand. Now I’m supposed to listen to what he has to say.

He puts me in the passenger seat of the car and goes to the drivers side.

“I need you to listen to me.” I run my fingers through my hair trying to get some order to my thoughts that are just screaming at me to take her here and now so she knows she belongs to me.

“I know I was a jack ass to you. I didn’t give you a chance to tell me why you lied to me. But I had just fallen and was disoriented and had a nasty head ache.” I sigh.

“Then the first thing I see when I open my eyes was you leaning over me and then I saw those birth marks on you breast and I knew you were my Mary Joe. That is until your father called you Leah.” I put my head on the steering wheel.

“I was hurt I felt like I loved you so much and all this time you had been playing me. Probably laughing behind my back. My heart hurt so much I was blinded with hurt . So when you tried to talk to me it was all just to much.”

I could see how much pain Chance was in. “You hurt me! We spent all this time together and I opened up to you and told you things I never even told my sister. I trusted you and loved you more than you could ever know.” he turned to look at me.

Oh no did she just say loved as in not any more.

“The fact that you think I was capable of playing with you. Makes me think that you didn’t really love me. How could you think I faked every moment we were together just for the fun off it, just so we could laugh at you.” Silent tears where falling from my eyes.

“That was a side of you I never knew existed. A cold side that just shut you down and closed you off to even hear me.”

“I said I was sorry.”

I raised my hand “some times sorry isn’t good enough. What happens down the line when I do another stupid thing are you going to walk away again without even hearing me out.”

“I know I’m hard headed and Luke already chewed me out for not even letting you talk. But I can change, I will change . For you I’ll do anything you want.”

“I don’t know if my heart has what it takes to give you another chance.”

I fell like a broken man. ‘Serves you right’ says my conscience. ‘You were so sure all you had to do was come to her and say sorry and all would be forgiven.’ I try to think about what I can do or say to make her love me again, make her trust me again.

“I know I lost your love and your trust. But can I at least have another opportunity to prove to you that I can change.”

She narrows her eyes at me.

“You tell me I need to change but how can I do that if you don’t give me the opportunity to even try.”

I look down at my hands. I don’t know if I can do this again. The pain is still to fresh. He’s just going to hurt me again. Know I finally understand why dad kept us away from boys. There nothing but heart ache.

I turn and look into his eyes and see my own pain reflected in them. If he’s hurting as bad as I am, maybe I should give him one last chance. “We go home tomorrow. Come to my house in the night and I’ll give you my answer then. I have to think about it tonight.”

I feel a weight lift from my shoulders. It wasn’t a yes but it wasn’t a no.

“Fair enough. Do you want to take a walk with me?”

“That would be lovely.”

We walked for a while and talked about what they did while they were visiting Judy. When we got back to the group that damn Lance was still singing with the guitar. I saw the was Leah looked at him and it made my blood boil.

So she likes a man that can sing. I can sing and play the guitar. I guess it’s time to up the antes on this game.

“Lance can I borrow the guitar?”

“Sure Chance” he hands it to me with a big smile on his face.

“This song is for Leah who might take back this poor slob who did her wrong.”

Oh my I didn’t know Chance could play the guitar and sing I feel my heart beat faster in my chest as I watch him.

I look at Leah and start to sing as I play:

I can’t tell you baby what went wrong,

I can’t make you feel what you felt so long ago.

I’ll let it show

I can’t give you back what’s been hurt.

Heartaches come and go all that’s left are the words.

I can’t let go

If we take some time to think it over baby.

Take some time, let me know if you really want to go.

Don’t know what you got till it’s gone

Don’t know what it is I did so wrong.

Now I know what I got it’s just this song.

And it ain’t easy to get back it takes so long

Do you want to see me begging baby

Can’t you give me just one more day?

Can’t you see my hearts been dragging lately

I was crying as he sang to me and forgot about everyone even being here with us. As soon as he finished I jumped into his arms and started to cry.

“Don’t you ever hurt me again!” I said between sobs.

“You are my life, the missing part of me. When you hurt I hurt. I can’t promise that I’ll never be and ass again. But if you help me I can learn to listen. I love you and have loved you for so many years now it’s pathetic.” I kiss her forehead.

“I’m sorry I hurt you. But I love you and want to spend the rest of my life proving to you how much I love you. I would happily lay here and let you whip me for punishment if that would make you happy ”

I blush at the thought of whipping him “I love you to Chance.”

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The next day I wake up happy. I’m going to go see Leah later she said they would be home by 2. We drove home last night in case dad needed help this morning.

“Why are you so happy this morning?” asked mom.

“He finally made up with Leah last night and he even sang to her” smirked Luke.

“I like that girl Chance you better court her and treat her good. I know you saw each other when you were at Joe’s farm but never really courted her.”

“Yes mom I know I’m taking her flowers today and maybe out to dinner.”

“God your like a little whipped puppy dog following after his master.”

I smack Luke in the back of the head. “mom did you know Luke was seeing Mary Joe then just stopped calling on her.”

Mom glared at him. I knew this boy was going to hurt one of those girls if he was around them. “Luke that is just wrong of you. I didn’t raise my boys to be womanizers.”

“I know mom but she was to intense for me. She had me feeling this I didn’t like. I’m not ready to settle down yet. There’s still places to go. Women to do. Ow.” Mom just hit me.

“Luke shame on you.”

“Hey mom do you still have grandmas engagement ring?”

“Oh Chance really.” I clutch my chest and all I can think about is, yes grandkids. I’m going to finally have me some grandkids.

“You know Leah’s the one that hates bull riding” Luke smirks.

Oh crap that’s right. So do I. I smile I can tell her I’ll give it up for her earning me some points. She doesn’t have to know I hate it as much as she does.

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