Their Marriage Reunited by Sheena Morrish Page B

hadn’t noticed the tightening of his arms around her or the changing of his breathing to indicate he was awake.
    “I was just thinking about the past,” she said and noticed the way that Connor’s face darkened at the mention of it.
    “We should leave the past where it belongs,” he stated firmly and Lilly wanted to agree but wondered if maybe the past was influencing her decisions.
    “Do you ever think that we married too young?” Lilly asked quietly as she looked away and she felt him stiffen. He cupped her chin and tilted her head up to face him as he looked questioningly at her.
    “What’s brought this on?” he asked as he gazed searchingly at her.
    “I was just thinking that maybe we married too young and that’s why we didn’t make it,” she said and Connor sighed as he pulled her closer in to his embrace.
    “We were young but I loved you completely and I think we could have survived whatever it was that drove you from my arms if I had known what the problem was,” he said. It was Lilly’s turn to stiffen in his arms.
    “I don’t think love could have solved everything,” Lilly said sceptically. If that were true then she had certainly loved him more than enough to get through anything.
    “Well we’ll never know as you don’t trust me enough to tell me whatever it was that was bothering you enough to abandon our marriage,” he said and Lilly felt that he was being overly harsh. He sounded as though it was all her fault that their marriage hadn’t survived the death of their child but there was no guarantee that it would have survived anyway.
    “It isn’t about trust,” Lilly said. It was mostly true. She didn’t want to discuss it with him because it was too painful to face and she wasn’t sure that she could take any more heartbreak. She couldn’t remember the last time that she had been genuinely happy.
    “It seems like it is to me,” Connor said instantly.
    “You just don’t understand,” Lilly said in frustration and found her chin captured by Connor again as he tilted her face up to his.
    “Then explain it to me,” he suggested.  Lilly thought about it, she honestly did, but in the end she ultimately decided not to. It would only ruin what they were trying to build now. She realised that they needed to communicate better but she still didn’t want to rehash old issues that would probably just lead to more heartbreak.
    “I thought we were starting something new with the people we are now, not trying to go back to the way we were before,” she pointed out. Connor sighed at this and wondered what the big secret that she was hiding from him was.
    “What will it take to make you trust me again?” he asked and Lilly frowned at that. Was it true that she didn’t trust him at all? It was when it came to him and Alexa. But she did trust him more than anyone else in her life. It seemed like everyone had lied to her lately and it wasn’t that she didn’t trust him but rather that she struggled to trust anyone anymore.
    “I do trust you,” Lilly said and realised that she wasn’t lying. She had always known that if she was in trouble then he would be there for her no matter what and the first time she’d needed him he’d proved her right.
    “Then why won’t you tell me the truth?” he asked softly. Lilly could see the hurt in his eyes but she didn’t want to bring up what had happened. If what she’d believed all these years were true then it would bring all the heartbreak back and would destroy everything and if she had been wrong then it would achieve the exact same results. Better to leave it where it was and do her best to move on.
    “It won’t change anything. If we want to have a future then we have to start from the beginning. Melissa’s going home today which will give us all the time we need to get to know each other again and decide if we have something worth saving,” Lilly said. She was surprised when Connor took her hand in his and placed a tender kiss