Four Years Later Novels & Stories

FOUR YEARS LATER As I stepped off the plane, my heart pounded in my chest. This was the place I had left behind four years ago. I was not sure coming back was a good idea. But this time, I was different. I had grown up, built a career, and learned to stand on my own. That was one of the main reasons I had returned. I was no longer that twenty-one-year-old girl who had been foolishly in love. I thought about the group of people that had following me the lady few weeks and shuddered a little. I just hoped that they wouldn't find me this time.

Chapter 32 Back to Titusville FOUR YEARS LATER "I am so elated seeing you right now! It has been a long time since you left, Mia! Even though you missed my wedding, I still miss you all the same!” Cheryl said, holding her hands with a bright smile on her expression.

Amar wiped the remaining tears in Alicia's eyes, made Alicia cry again, Amar rubbed Alicia's back to be calm again, he did not expect to hurt Alicia like this, even though he only forgot the lunch promise. "It has been four years, bro, four years I have been waiting for you, four years only your name is what I say in prayer, these four years only you have filled the niches of my heart, and when you came to meet me, I was very hopeful and without a doubt love you deeper, but it turned out that I was wrong, I was wrong, bro, your heart is not for me, if it's like this it's better for me to go, "said Alicia in a trembling voice holding back tears.

若是仔细计较起来，那时两人还没领证，应该不算严格意义上的先婚后爱。 If she thought about it carefully, they hadn't registered their marriage back then, so it wasn't strictly a "marriage first, love later" situation. Thaddeus poured himself another glass of wine. He couldn't resist drinking more in this atmosphere. After drinking, he started talking more than usual, saying things he normally wouldn't. "Jessie, our love has a four-year-time difference. Can you wait for me?" he pleaded. Thaddeus lightly coughed and continued, "I've been working hard to make up for those four years. You don't have to do anything but to wait for me right where you are."

Kian’s eyes were red as he stared me down. “Four years. You’re actually alive?” His eyes raked over my faded linen dress. They landed on my mud-caked boots. Disgust twisted his features. “Why the hell are you dressed like this?” he blurted out. That sentence, that look of entitled disgust, threw me right back to that freezing night four years ago. The Crescent Moon pack was about to hold its “Beta Elite Trials.” To get him a nomination, I stood outside the camp for a whole night in forty-below weather. My legs nearly froze solid.

God, anyone but them. It had been over four years since I last saw the guys. Four years since I saw Hades and Valerian. My heart hurts whenever I think of them. Yet, that doesn’t mean I stopped thinking about them. I think of them every passing minute every day. They’re the only guys that’s been in my mind since the pool party. That night, we shared a connection. I felt it.

Brushing my knuckles over her soft, warm skin, I say, “You’re more beautiful than I remember.” We stare at each other for an intense moment, and when I take a step closer to her, she moves backward. Her voice is still filled with caution as she says, “We have a lot to talk about, Xander.” Something akin to compassion fills her eyes. “It’s been four years.” Four fucking hard years. The last of the shock wears off, and my mind clears. For four years, I lived in perpetual hell without her, but maybe it wasn’t the same for her.

"I—I was just worried I might've blinded you and would have to pay for it!" Halbert chuckled, his breath warm as he leaned in just slightly, his voice a low murmur. "Hmm. But what about the people who are blind to what’s in front of them?" I stiffened. "I waited four years, Judy." His words settled heavily in the air, mixing with the scent of sweat, pine, and mint. Four years. A memory lurched forward, unbidden. A nickname. A moment. A promise unfulfilled. My face heated under his intense gaze, and just when I thought I might drown in it, he finally straightened up.

There was a beat of silence before I looked back at him. Kael’s eyes widened, the golden hue of them bright and alert, though clouded with something like disbelief. “So… you never got the chance to tell him?” His voice trembled faintly. “When did that happen?” “Nearly four years ago,” I replied quietly, the words falling like stones into a deep well. “You were just a baby then. Still in diapers.”

Far enough that I could not reach out and hold either of them. Not yet. Maybe not for a long time. That was alright. I had waited four years. I would wait four more if I had to. Because this time... I was not leaving.