Just In Time For Love (Stanton Falls #1) Read Online Free PDF

roommate was in a
sorority and was always trying to get me to join up.  The first year I was
able to stand my ground but like they say, peer pressure is no joke.  The
more alone I got there, the more I just wanted to fit in.”

 
    Her words trailed off as
she stared into the distance, nervously biting the corner of the bottom lip.
 Aaron placed his hand gently on hers in a show of support for.  She
looked up at him and he nodded for her to continue.  

 
    “No judgement, I
promise.”

 
    Looking at him, her
features softened slightly and she released a long breath.  

 
    “Thank you.  Well in
my junior year, I did join a sorority and it was fun at first, and clean.
 Then just like with everything else, the pressure to drink was too much.
 Every night it seemed like there was party or a keg at someone’s house.
 Funny, I never even liked the taste of beer.  Still don’t but I
drank it anyway.  The things that we will subject ourselves to in order to
fit in amaze me.  Eventually I did stop drinking but …”

 
    She looked into his eyes
and continued as he gently squeezed her hand in encouragement.

 
    “Let’s just say I didn’t
stop drinking because of any self-realization or an epiphany.  I don’t
know if you remember this or not but around the beginning of my junior year was
when I stopped talking to you.  I had gone to a beginning of semester blowout
party that one of the fraternities on campus was throwing.  I got drunk
and had unprotected sex with a guy that had been trying to … get to know me
better, if you know what I mean.  Literally one time and...boom.  I
wasn’t textbook promiscuous but it was enough to get me pregnant.”

 
    Aaron knew all too well
the kind of guy she was talking about.  Men that took women for nothing
more than sexual objects.  He’d met a few guys like that when he was in
the marines.  They didn’t give value to the woman, only quenching their
desire.  It was kind of hard for him at times to watch the back of a guy
he thought was pretty low as a person, but they were on a team.  He
listened as she continued on.  

 
    “That was when I had
decided to break it off with you.  You had always treated me like this
clean, perfect woman.  I betrayed that image you had of me and just
couldn’t take it.  Every time we would talk you would go on about how much
you loved me and how you wanted to marry me when you got back.  I knew
before then that I wasn’t the same person you loved, but after that weekend, I
felt like I was someone that you would not even recognize.  I didn’t even
recognize the person that I had become.  Considering that, I didn’t think
I deserved someone like you.  That was when I broke the relationship off
with you.  Two Months later I found out I was pregnant and now there is my
little Ashleigh.  So you don’t have to pretend that I am the same person
that you used to love. You probably see me in a completely new, negative light
now.  Maybe we should just call it a night.”

 
    Emily turned to grab her
purse but Aaron hadn’t released her hand yet.  He was still looking in her
eyes.  Loving.  Gentle.  Confident.  

 
    “Is that why you stole
almost four years of my time with you from me?  Not one word said could
change anything I feel about you.  In fact, I think I am more proud of you
now than I have ever been before.”

 
    “How can you say that?
 Were you listening to what I just told you about me?”

 
    “You know I was.  I
heard a lot of wallowing in self-pity, which is understandable when you think
that your life as you know it is over.  I also heard a person who realizes
that they had made a few mistakes, certainly more than you would care to have
made.  But it sounds to me like you don’t give yourself credit for making
the really hard decisions.  It would have been the easy way out to just
abort your baby.  No one would have been the wiser.  You made a hard
decision and have