Breaking Ties by Tracie Puckett

Author:Tracie Puckett [Puckett, Tracie]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction, Love & Romance
Google: 4muSBAAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00NR9XZNK
Published: 2014-09-19T13:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

“Are you in a hurry to get home?”

“No,” I said.

Somehow I’d gotten lucky this weekend and didn’t have to work any shifts. All thanks to Jones and his newfound work ethic, I had plenty of time to focus on the things I actually wanted to focus on—like Gabe. And if I didn’t go rushing home, then I wouldn’t have to spend the evening with my family, and that was okay by me. I didn’t know what I was supposed to say to Dad, when we actually talked again, and I couldn’t get a clear read on Bailey. Since Mom’s arrival had thrown everyone for a loop, my safest bet for sanity was hanging with Gabe for as long as possible.

“I want to take you somewhere,” he said. “Is that okay?”

“Yeah,” I nodded. “Of course.”

I stopped at my car to grab my phone, laughing at all the missed calls and texts. Not a single one of them was from Dad or Bailey. I had three of each from Gabe, and one text of thanks from Fletcher. There was even a missed call and voicemail from Haley Goodwin, so I made a mental note to see what that was all about after Gabe and I parted ways.

“Are we going to Evergreen?” I asked five minutes later from the passenger’s seat of his car. I recognized the neighborhood, more specifically the street we were headed down.

“Yeah, is that okay?”

“Sure.” I looked at my DU hoodie and jeans, suddenly feeling a little too underdressed, even for a nursing home, because Evergreen wasn’t your everyday, run-of-the-mill kind.

“So when you said your Mom owns Evergreen,” I said, reflecting on our conversation from the diner, “did you actually mean she owns Evergreen?”

“Inheritance,” he said. “The whole estate, from here all the way down to Fifth Street. It belonged to my grandfather. His father basically built the city.”

I found myself staring at him, wide-eyed and shocked. How was it that I didn’t know that about him? I felt like I should’ve known that Gabe came from a line of pretty important people. Then again, Gabe himself was a pretty important person, so I shouldn’t have been too shocked.

“So you’re like … loaded, aren’t you?” I asked.

“Loaded?”

“Loaded—lots of money, super-rich, Mr. Money Bags.”

“Ha! Sorry to disappoint,” he smiled as he turned into the parking lot. “I’ve worked for every dime and everything I have. Now my mother, on the other hand—”

“Forget it,” I said, shaking my head. Not only was it none of my business, I didn’t even want to think about the fact that Gabe had spent his entire adult life working for every dime, yet his mother lived her life alone inside those four walls every day, sitting on top of a major inheritance. She should’ve been helping him, especially to achieve things with RI. She should’ve backed him, funded him, given him a chance.

“You’re wrong,” he said, helping me out of the car. He could see it in my face. I was fuming. “We appreciate things more when we earn them.

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