Unconditionally (Brown County #4)

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Author: Amber Nation
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pain in your heart.
    Actually seeing him for the first time in months, it brought back the memory of the very first night I was introduced to Giovanni Vincenzo. As I said I met him through Maggie Walker, a mutual friend, she had just started coming around the gang and was majorly crushing on Charlie, our bass guitarist. She and Gio both showed up at Emmy Lou’s one night and within one look at the man, I was hooked. Being me I never shied away from acknowledging someone if I thought they were cute and voicing my opinion. Once we grasped each other’s palms in a pleasant exchange something zapped right through me and shook me to my core and made it physically incapable for me to speak, I could only rove my eyes up and down his delectable body.
    After not being able to get his piercing blue eyes off of my mind, several weeks later I obtained his phone number in exchange for some dating advice. I couldn’t recall the last time when I had been so nervous to talk to someone on the phone, but after the first few minutes of awkwardness we each relaxed a bit and ended up spending most the night talking. Living two hours away from each other, we spent countless hours talking on the phone about anything and everything. Hopes, dreams, aspirations, you name it we talked about it.

Toby
    After dinner was over, I showed my appreciation and said my goodbyes to each of my friends, and I found myself traveling to Big Pete’s.
    It was this amazing gay bar about forty-five minutes outside of Brown County. I needed alcohol and man candy who could make forget about the tense conversation that took place after the dinner party and Roman was exactly the ticket.
    Emmalynne had cornered me on my way out of DeNiro’s, having known each other for several years, she could tell that something was up. She inquired as to why I hadn’t stopped by her bookstore, Turn the Page this morning, as I did every morning. But it wasn’t the conversation with her that put me on edge.
    I had done my best to ‘dodge’ Gio during dinner but I couldn’t quite outrun him in the parking lot especially when he was waiting for me, leaning against the driver’s side door of my Jeep.
    My distaste couldn’t be hidden as I walked towards him, stopping a few feet away, crossing my arms in front of my chest. “Why did you come here, Gio?” I didn’t mean to be rude, but my ‘give a fuck’ was officially broken. I knew Maggie felt bad because she kept giving me subtle apologetic expressions throughout the course of the dinner. I didn’t know where he got the hint that he was welcome, and it utterly killed me inside to see him there.
    He took a hesitant step forward and reached his hand towards my face, in a move to try and caress my cheek. I wanted so badly to relax into his touch, but I wasn’t a doormat. You couldn’t just snap your fingers for me whenever you felt like it, thinking that I would come running.
    Before his fingers made contact with the skin of my face, I took a step backwards, moving us even farther apart.
    Gio reluctantly dropped his arm back down at his side before locking eyes on me, “Come on, Toby. I made a mistake, give me another chance.”
    The glint in his eye made me think that he was truly sorry for his past digressions.
    I was all for giving second chances, but I didn’t like the fact that he completely blindsided me in coming here and practically ambushed me. I didn’t react well to being cornered to where I felt uncomfortable. And above all else, I just didn’t know if my heart could take that hurt again.
    I sighed deeply before I began speaking, “You did make a mistake, Gio, a big one. The way you just disregarded my feelings before hurt.” I wasn’t desperate, even though I wanted nothing more than to have a strong man by my side day in and day out, I wouldn’t take him back out of desperation. Sometimes people took people back who didn’t necessarily deserve it, because they didn’t want to lose that person. That

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