Unexpected Temptations
Chapter: 6
Pairing: Brock & Reba
Rating: PG
"No." he said, looking her in the eyes. "I'm not going to walk out on you. Not again."
"You wouldn't be walking out on me." Reba told him. "There's nothing here for you to be walking out on, Brock."
"Were you not listening to anything I said?" he asked. "I want this." he said, motioning between the two of them. "I thought you wanted it too."
"Brock." she exhaled. "I don't even know what this is. You invited me to dinner and now all of the sudden you want more. You want..."
"You." he said, softly. "I want you. I've always wanted you."
"That's not true." she told him. "You and I both know that."
"I thought I was doing the right thing." he confessed. "I thought that for once in my life I was taking responsibility and doing the right thing by marrying Barbra Jean. I messed up by cheating and I messed up again by trying to build a marriage on what was only a fling."
"You can't do this to me, Brock!" she almost yelled, getting up off the sofa. "You can't put me in an impossible situation like this. I'm just starting to feel like myself again. I don't want to be hurt all over again. Please try and understand."
"I know that I hurt you." he told her. "And I know that I can never go back and fix my mistakes. I'm just asking you to give me another chance. I promise that I'll never do anything to hurt you ever again."
She took a few steps back away from him. "It's not that simple."
"It could be."
"No." she disagreed. "I lost my faith in you, Brock. I lost my trust and my hope and most importantly my heart."
"I could say I'm sorry a million times and it would never be good enough." he told her. "I know that. I'm not trying to change the past, I'm just trying to get back to that place in my life where I was happiest."
Reba was absolutely speechless. He had just said everything that she had been longing to hear. The apology that could have saved their marriage. Only it was four years too late and he was someone else's husband. "Why are you doing this to me, Brock?" she asked, turning her back to him. "Why couldn't you have said all those things years ago?"
"Would it made a difference if I had?" he asked, walking up behind her. "Would you have forgiven me." his hands slid over her shoulders. "Would you have given us another chance."
Everything within her was melting. All the walls she had put up around her heart. All the things that she had been holding back. She wanted to be honest with him. She had to be. Or she would never forgive herself. "Yes." she whispered ever so faintly. "It would have." she said as she turned around to face him. "I would have."
Brock took a step closer to her. "You mean it?" he asked. "You forgive me?"
"Yes." she smiled fleetingly. "I forgive you."
His hands gently cupped her face. "You have no idea how much this means to me."
"I think I have a pretty good idea."
"Yeah?"
"Yeah." she breathed out, inching closer to him.
Brock's hands on her face drew her closer to him but it was Reba that leaned forward brushing her lips against his. Softly, gently, and ever so gracefully her lips met his again and again for sweet, seductive kisses. The space between them seemed to evaporate. He wrapped his arms tightly around her, pulling her into him.
He felt her pull back from him. "You okay?" he asked, still holding her. "Reba?"
tbc...