Chase (Lakefield Book 4) by Jennifer Vester

Author:Jennifer Vester [Vester, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-09-20T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Noah had given me something that I doubt Brock was aware of yet.

Before we left, I had gone through the bags quickly to see what he had managed to shove in them from my room. It wasn’t everything but it was close to nearly everything that we had downstairs. Clothes were mixed up and shoved in every corner of the suitcases like he had just dumped drawers and pulled clothes off hangers at random.

In the top of one of the bags, however, I found my phone and my charger. The phone had very little battery life on it, having been unplugged for more than a day but it still had some life. I had three missed calls from earlier yesterday when we were at the pool and no other notifications.

One of the calls was from the Camp Latimer registration group. The other two were automated messages selling goods.

Rationally, I tried to break down my options while I used the bathroom as an excuse to have a private moment away from the Fleming twins.

I bit my lip and leaned against the counter while clutching my phone.

Brock’s issue with his business was pretty much done. I hadn’t made any promises to stick around afterward. I said I would help and I did, sort of, although my help did absolutely nothing.

Having sex with him had been great. More than great. My body clenched just thinking about having sex with him. On the other hand, this seemed to be getting into more of a mess than I needed to deal with.

And he lied.

Okay, I had semi-lied to him too, which didn’t make me feel great either. I withheld the truth though. Was that a lie by omission?

That sounded like fuzzy territory to me. Where do you go when a relationship, even a friendship, was built on half-truths from the beginning?

The one thing that was holding me up from trying to bolt right now was what we shared in bed last night and this morning. More importantly how he made me feel. Like I was wanted and that I meant something to him. I wasn’t sure what he meant by being his family but I assumed it meant I was a part of this weird circle of friends he had adopted as his family.

The things he said made me want to surrender my trust to him. Made me want to believe he could take care of everything but my blind faith in my parents had taught me to be cautious. Hadn’t they promised me a life and then taken it away?

I did know that I could take care of Drew and I on my own. I trusted myself to get things done when I needed to. I knew my own strength. If I had learned anything over the last four years, it was that I could trust in myself to put our lives ahead of every selfish thing that I had ever wanted. Chasing my dreams became less important compared to the reality of what I needed to do.

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