Be Mine Forever (A St. Helena Vineyard Novel) by Adair Marina

Author:Adair, Marina [Adair, Marina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Montlake Romance
Published: 2014-01-21T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 10

You want to run that by me again?” Trey asked, but even as the words left his mouth, he knew he was screwed.

“Hunter said I wasn’t going to the campout cuz I’m a ballerina,” Cooper said. Trey could hear him sniffle every few words through the window. “I told him that I wasn’t a ballerina, that boy ballerinas are called awesome, and then he laughed, and the other guys laughed too, except Matt. He never laughs at me.”

“Get to the point where you punched him,” Trey said, leaning his head back against the locked car door and staring blindly up at the stars, because the more Cooper spoke, the more Trey had to admit that a replay of him and Sara on the patio was not going to happen.

“I told him that dancers were stronger than football players, just like you told me to—”

He was so screwed.

“—and when he didn’t believe me, I shoved him and he fell. In the mud. Then he cried.” And now Cooper was back to crying. “I didn’t want him to get his uniform muddy. I just wanted him to stop laughing.”

“I know, buddy. Accidents happen.”

“His mom used a different word. It started with an A but sounded different.”

Trey sat up straight and turned to face Cooper through the side window. He looked so small, sitting there in the driver’s seat, his legs pulled to his chest, his muddy shoes firmly planted on Trey’s leather. He rolled his racecar back and forth across his knees, down his calf rollercoaster-style, and flipped it for a smooth landing on the passenger seat. “Altercation?”

“Yeah, then she got real mad and made Commander Roman call Mommy and Hunter said you came cuz she’s too mad to even look at me.”

“Your mom’s not mad, Coop. She was just worried. And I’m worried, so why don’t you open the door?”

When the kid didn’t answer, Trey hit the unlock button on his key.

Click.

And Clunk.

Cooper immediately locked it back, as though he hadn’t just trapped Trey out of his car—again—and kept talking, “Hunter said I’m not allowed to go back, so I’ll never be a full Mite.”

“You get to go back,” Trey said for what must have been the fifteenth time over the past hour. “You just have to take a, uh…” What did Regan call it? “A time out.”

Silence. Trey turned back around and resumed his seat on the wet asphalt. Cooper scrambled to the window and pressed his face to the glass. After a quick check to make sure Trey was still there, the kid went back to playing Indy 500.

Trey hoped Coop did better at playing racecar driver than he had at playing hero.

God, he’d completely blown it. Day one into his role of Manny of the Year and his charge had sucker punched some punk kid, gotten suspended from his after-school care, and locked himself in the car.

And just when he thought the night couldn’t get any worse, his phone rang. It was Sara.

Trey held the ringing phone over his head and in clear view of the driver’s side window.

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