Before We Say Goodbye by Michelle Pennington

Author:Michelle Pennington [Pennington, Michelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-28T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

No two hours in my whole life had ever felt longer than the ones I spent with Jack that night.

Not that he wasn’t fun or attractive or a good date. He was. He took me out to a nice seafood restaurant down at the harbor, and then we walked around enjoying music from a live band, trying our luck at a few carnival games and sharing cotton candy. As a way to get to know someone, it was perfect. Unfortunately for Jack, my brain was somewhere else the whole time, no matter how I tried to focus on him.

But Tate had freaking kissed me!

I’d spent so much time around Tate that I knew his every expression, every inflection of his voice, every sport he’d played, every movie he liked, and so, so much more—but I somehow had missed that he had been wanting to kiss me for a long time?

All night, my brain had been running full-speed in the background of my awareness trying to figure it out.

He was a little older than me and a lot cooler than me. Over the last six years or so, he’d become affectionate, protective, and playful toward me. I’d always figured that he saw me as an extension of his sister because he was all those things with her as well—but maybe there had been a difference after all. But definitely not one that I’d picked up on.

Had he just been hiding the way he felt like I had been?

“So, is there anything else you want to do?” Jack asked as we got to the end of the harbor walk and circled back around.

I felt terrible, but dragging this out any longer wouldn’t be fair to either of us. “If you don’t mind, I think I’d better get home. I just started a new job and I need to be to work early tomorrow.”

His smile was slightly crooked, dipping down on one side. “Sure, no problem.”

Luckily, the drive back to my house only took a few minutes because I literally had nothing else to talk about with him. Like a true southern gentleman, Jack came around to open my door and help me down, averting his eyes when the skirt of my green sundress caught on the seat and slid up as I slid down. If things were different, he was just the kind of guy I’d be interested in.

As we walked up to my front door, he put his hands in his pockets and sighed. “So…”

Oh crap. Did he want to kiss me? “Yeah?”

He motioned between us. “This didn’t really go the way I’d hoped, and I can’t help wondering if it had to do with that other guy that was here.”

My cheeks went hot and I bit my lip. “How’d you guess?”

He laughed. “You guys felt like two ends of a lightning bolt. Plus, there was no misunderstanding the look he gave me on his way out. It was a hands-off warning for sure.”

“Oh man. I’m sorry. This all just kind of blew up on me.

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