Billionaire Bad Boys of Romance 2(156)

Keyonna was looking right at him as she asked, “What do you think happened, Nick?”

Nick paused, not sure exactly how or where to start. He could read the uncertainty in her eyes and he loathed himself for wishing this conversation wasn’t about to happen.

“I’ve been wary to ask,” she went on less confidently, her eyes downcast as she fidgeted with her glass. “I kept hoping it would all just come back to me eventually. But now I just want to know.”

Nick drew in a deep sigh and thought, this was it. They’d spent the last two weeks blissfully, taking each day as it came. Making each moment count. Nick had been happy to shut out the outside world; no checking his business emails, warning his assistants not to call him unless it was an unavoidable emergency.

He’d even spoken to Keyonna’s parents and closest friends and warned them about her memory loss, asking that they leave him to try to explain what may have happened. Nick wasn’t sure how much he could count on them to keep from stressing Keyonna with their own version of events. And yet now here he was, with no way to avoid the inevitable. Keyonna needed answers and she needed them now.

Bracing himself, he asked calmly and yet knowing he was hedging, “Exactly what do you remember?”

“Um, let’s see…” Keyonna’s expression was thoughtful as she tapped her chin. “I recall all about the way we met that night at Mark’s party – you know, with Rachel breaking up with you and then you proposing to me.”

Nick’s lips twisted somewhat wryly. “Thank you for putting it so mildly. Considering I demanded you marry me or lose all you worked for.”

Keyonna seemed to squirm, but then placed a hand on his with a warm touch. “I’m not bringing all this up to drag up the wrong or right of anything that’s happened. I don’t regret being here with you, right now.”

“Thank you,” he said simply, catching her hand and planting a kiss on the soft underside of her wrist. Keyonna squirmed once again, with pleasure this time, but then became serious again.

“Okay; then I can see the wedding and both of us standing together talking and afterwards you walking away from me…” She paused with a deep sigh and a shake of her head. “But then that’s where it’s all a blur; right up to the moment I opened my eyes in the hospital.”

Keyonna’s gaze sought his. “Can’t you tell me what happened in between?”

“I can’t. Because I don’t know,” Nick said honestly. And how was he going to be able to tell her that she’d packed a bag and deserted him on their wedding day, disappearing for weeks before he finally found her? And then to almost lose her again when that bike had run her down? An accident he blamed himself for everyday because she’d been running away from him, again? It all seemed too absurd to try to relate to her.#p#分页标题#e#

“Look, Nick,” Keyonna said with a small smile, “You can cut out the mystery, okay? I understand that you’re trying to protect me because the doctor told us I had to take it easy and not rush things, and that the memory loss is only temporary – or so he says.”

“So he says,” Nick heard himself echo somewhat hollowly, as in that instant he wished that Keyonna could remain this way, with that terrible part of her life lost to them for good.

That way it wouldn’t come back to destroy the happiness they now shared.

Dios, but he loved this woman. The past several days spent alone with her had given enough opportunity to count the ways Keyonna was not just beautiful on the outside, but inside. She had the brightest disposition; was highly intelligent and interested in the world around her. They could discuss anything under the sun; art, music and current affairs and she always had an informed opinion. Not that they actually had spent that much time talking, considering how many – or how few – the hours they’d spent out of bed. But when they did get to talk, she showed a true depth of character that beguiled and struck him.

Sensing her own feelings of love for him was the icing on the cake. He could tell she loved spending time with him; and that when they made love, she was thrilled by his touch and his possession. Getting her memory back and all that went with it, would mean Nick having to test the extent of her love for him – as in whether she loved him enough to forgive him for whatever he may have done. But dammit, he couldn’t figure out what the hell that was.

“Okay,” Nick let out on a deep sigh, closing his eyes briefly as he pinched the bridge of his nose and worked out what he planned to say. He wasn’t sure she was ready for the truth yet; it might be a selfish decision on his part but for now, he felt sure it was best not to give her all the facts – as he knew them. He still needed some answers himself, so how was he supposed to give her the whole truth? So many things were yet to make sense – for either of them. Not without her memory returning.