Because of Adam by Celi Sara & Celi S

Author:Celi, Sara & Celi, S.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Because of Adam
Publisher: Lowe Interactive Media, LLC
Published: 2020-01-12T16:00:00+00:00

Adam

That went better than I’d expected.

Not that it went particularly well, but at least I knew the truth now, and at least I had an explanation for the afternoon in Mr. Montague’s office, when everything had seemed too strange and out of whack, so different from what I’d believed.

That bastard had lied to me.

In fact, he’d gone further than that, according to his daughter. He’d lied to her too, forging a letter to confuse and upset her. What an asshole. What a mind job. What a waste. He’d set us both on a path that day with one sweep of his hand, one moment of passing judgment. It must have been nice to have that kind of power.

But at least now I had the answer to the question that had haunted me for years. Lila and I had been kept apart by something—someone—other than her.

I pressed a button on the Bentley’s steering wheel and directed the car’s computer system to call Preston. He picked up with a laugh. “Do I even have to guess what this is about?”

“No.” I sped up as I wound through Palm Beach’s idyllic downtown. “I went by her place this morning and we talked.”

“Good.”

“And she told me her father had lied to me that day.” I tasted bitterness in my mouth. “That he made up that sexual assault accusation.”

Preston scoffed. “Could have guessed that one.”

“How?”

“You were seventeen. She was fifteen. I doubt her father would have wanted her derailing her studies at Hempstead for a guy from the wrong side of Boca Raton. So he did what the rich do. He neutralized the threat.”

I stopped the car at the next red light. “And you never thought of telling me this?”

“Would you have listened?”

Fuck, he had a point. Stubbornness was one of my best and worst qualities. “No, I wouldn’t have.”

Preston laughed again. “Besides, you threw some epic parties in the process, while you were trying to prove once and for all that you’d reached whatever pinnacle of prestige you failed to have back when you were a teenage foster kid.”

I flinched at his blunt assessment. “I’m sure Palm Beach won’t notice a lack of celebrations at my house.”

“They will. It was refreshing. Less old people in tuxedoes for one.”

“Glad to have provided the distraction.” The light changed to green and I moved along the streets again, drawing closer to Ibis Isle and the unexpected sanctuary my home had become. “Lila and I are having dinner tonight.”

“Sounds like you’re getting exactly what you wanted after all—the chance to start again.”

“Ten-year odyssey coming down to this.”

“Still think she’s worth it?”

I scoffed. How could he even ask such a thing? “How many times have I talked to you about her over the last decade?”

“I think you brought her up the first week I met you.”

“You’re right. I did.”

I met Preston in boot camp the summer after high school, still hurt, raw and angry about being screwed out of my chance at college, as well as the sexual assault accusation.

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