Building Storm by Gwyn McNamee

Author:Gwyn McNamee
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gwyn McNamee

STORM

I can’t believe I let Landon see me fall apart like that…again. Every time I’m around this man, it seems like I can’t keep my shit together.

This is a job. I’m supposed to be working…

So damn embarrassing.

And even though I’m trying not to devolve back into a quivering mess, I’m barely holding on by a damn thread. My hands shake. My chest heaves, and every fiber of my being is screaming at me to climb back into my car and drive home where I can crawl into bed and never come out again.

Only I can’t do that. Not if I ever want to move forward with my life.

I need to be able to work. I need to be able to be here with Savage and Gabe and do my job without falling apart. When they said they wanted to rebuild here, I should have said no if I couldn’t handle it. It’s not fair now to use what happened as an excuse to not do my damn job.

No way. I can’t give in to the darkness. To the desire to collapse into a ball and ignore the world.

Ben wouldn’t want that. He wouldn’t want me to completely melt down every time someone mentions him, or anytime I have to come to the club in the future.

So, I’ll suck it up and put on a brave face, even if I’m shattered inside.

Landon watches me carefully where we stand next to my car, waiting for me to say or do something. Waiting for an indication I’m not going to have another panic attack.

He’s so sweet. So supportive. So damn understanding of what a disaster I am.

I take a deep breath and walk across the street to the club with my head held high and my eyes on the front door. If I don’t think about what happened here, what I lost, then maybe, just maybe, I can get through this meeting.

Having Landon here with me helps, even though it kills me to admit it. His soft touch and sympathetic words back there were the only thing that dragged me from the dark hole I found myself in the moment I saw THREE.

Because I didn’t see it how I see it now. No. When I pulled up, I saw it how it was then.

Massive pillars of flames shooting to the blazing orange sky.

Fire trucks. Flashing lights.

Men running around shouting out orders.

And smoke.

God, there was so much smoke.

It billowed up in enormous columns like a black demon rising from the inferno.

I knew what it meant then. The moment I pulled up, I felt in my soul he was gone and my life was over. It was as if half of me had suddenly been ripped away, leaving me bleeding and helpless. And I just stood there watching it, knowing there was nothing I could do.

And it’s all I could see today.

Until Landon broke the dark spell and opened my eyes to the light. This will be a new building. A new chance to create something great for Savage and Gabe’s brand.

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