Can't Help Falling In Love With You Haley Reinhart Novels & Stories

HAILEY No. I’m not okay. I’m broken. I want you so much, but I can’t take the final step. Her breath came in short, harsh gasps. Her heart raced, and her body shook with fear. Slowly, her mind cleared, and she looked up at the man she wanted so badly. Jayden. He’d given her the most intense pleasure she’d ever felt, and she knew she’d made him feel good too, but she couldn’t give herself fully. She couldn’t fully give herself to anyone.

"To be clear, this is not a one-night stand. I am trying to save you so I at least deserve to know your name." Laughing, I look at this man who I don't even know but is risking his life to save me from a mess I got myself into and he doesn't seem bothered or feel disgusted by me. Smiling I stretch my hand out for him to shake and say. "My name is Hailey." Taking my hand he beams. "Am Hunter." The elevator doors open, and we walk out hand in hand. "I hope your car is down here," I say. "Lucky for us it is." He smiles.

Then strangers from across the world repeating Haley's phrase without knowing they were giving her a path back. A claim is not consent. Haley found her phone in her hand again. She looked Fenrir in the eye. "I am what I am when nobody watches," she said. "I just prefer better lighting." She hit the live button again. The frozen plain shattered. Back in Nightingale, Haley gasped, fell to one knee, and kept the camera pointed upward. "Update," she told the world, voice shaking. "Fenrir has bad breath and abandonment issues." The trend became unstoppable.

Haley's voice turned shrill, like a cat who'd had its tail stepped on, and her words cut even deeper than her heel had. "Ryan isn't at fault here! He was bewitched by a vixen like you. He was led astray! He's innocent—blinded! Viewers, don't you agree?" she called out to her live audience, who were watching her livestream. "This bitch has been after Ryan from the start! She even went as far as scheming to trap him into marriage, and now she has the nerve to say she's done nothing wrong! Who does she think she is? Just a mistress—does she really think she’s on my level?”

It's so weird for me to be saying all of these when just last night, I was rolling my eyes throughout 'all the boys I've loved before', saying how love is a fraud. "Hi." I heaved a big sigh and closed my locker door shut. "What is it Haylee?" I'm really not in the mood to entertain her. "I just... want to talk?" She asks, looking apologetic. I'm sorry, what? "Uh... sure?" "I'm sorry about what I did?" Haylee says, scratching the back of her head. "I know you and Cayden love each other very much—" Oof. "And I shouldn't have tried to ruin the romance between the two of you—"

If I had any idea that they'd plan all this for prom, I could have been more prepared. Bay took my hand. His eyes locked on mine. “I finally met someone who gets me. Someone I can't stop thinking about. Someone who lights up the whole room with her passion... Someone who tolerated all my excesses and stood by me, even when I clearly did not deserve it… Hailey Hayes… thank you for staying with me and for loving me regardless." The crowd go wild with cheer, interrupting him. My heart thudded and I couldn’t wipe the smile on my face.

She retired to her room almost stumbling into Zoe who was rearranging the bedroom furniture. "GET OUT OF MY ROOM, NOW!" Haley could no longer hold in the immense anger she felt, she knew she could not storm into Hannahs room and take it out in her, with her new status as Sebastians partner. Unfortunately, Zoe was met with the fate to deal with Haley, probably at her worst. Zoe did not bother to compete the task she had started and quickly rushed out of her room.

She chuckled. "Wh-a-a-t?" I said in a sing-song voice. "Hell no!" I declared. "So tell me," "Tell you what?" I asked, confused. "His name, dummy!" She retorted. "Oh! Trevor Reynolds." "Trevor what?!" She blurted out, suddenly turning off the ignition and forcing us to lunge forward. "Are you crazy, Hailey?! You could have gotten us killed!" I frantically yelled. "I love you, and I'm sorry. You mean the man you've been ranting about all along is the Trevor Reynolds, like New York's hotshot billionaire bachelor?" She questioned, her eyes widened in astonishment.

Her mother was assuring Hailey that everything would be fine, while Ellen just gave her friend a shoulder hug as they sat beside one another without uttering a word. "Dalton is in love with his wife. He is no longer the same person that we know," Hailey said in a shaken voice, trying so hard not to allow the tears that were lurking behind her eyeballs. The only person she could afford to be vulnerable before, was only Ellen and no one else.

That was the reason Cameron was washing the vegetables in a bowl to rescue the water and use for other things. “Pfff, first the man and your gynecologist betray you and then, the man make love to you like nothing had happened. But you know who’s the guilty one here? You! How come you allowed him to be the first one? I can’t believe it! This is not easy! This is not easy!” Haley said, finishing with the same phrase she was known for. Cameron’s eyes looked empty. There were no feelings in her. Not after all the humiliations she’d gone thought.