Dirty Summer: A small town romance serial (A Dirty Summer Episode Book 8) by Paige Violet

Author:Paige, Violet [Paige, Violet]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2020-04-04T16:00:00+00:00

Five

Reid

The windshield wipers were on high, and still Reid could barely make out the road. The rain had started falling in sheets before he hit the Cooper River Bridge. Normally, he would be able to see church spires and two-hundred-year-old buildings dotting the Charleston skyline, but the downpour hindered the historic city’s visibility.

He eased the vehicle down the narrow street while he strained to listen for turn directions from his phone. He squinted to see the green signs through the rainstorm. If memory served from his short Coast Guard stint in South Carolina’s oldest port town, the narrow streets and alleys were right on top of each other.

It was going on three in the morning, and he was almost at his destination. What he was going to say when he arrived on Maggie’s doorstep, he had no clue. I just have to talk to her. That thought had been running through his head since Blair confronted him in the boathouse.

Blair wasn’t the only one who had tried to convince him Maggie wasn’t a master manipulator, but for the past month, that was all he could focus on. He wasn’t an idiot; that bubbly innocent act couldn’t possibly be for real. But for the first time since that shitty morning, he wanted to talk to her about it. He wanted answers. He needed them.

Reid rolled his neck to work out the knots six hours of nonstop driving had tied in his muscles. Over the last few weeks, he hadn’t let himself think about how Maggie’s face had fallen or how the tears streaked down her cheeks that morning. Instead, he focused on her calculated betrayal, buried himself in spreadsheets, and sanded the hell out of juniper beams.

After one blow up fight, he and Justyn had an unspoken agreement not to talk about the girls anymore and what happened. They settled into a routine of sanding by day and drinking beer by night. Reid even cut back on fishing trips to the cape. Somehow, seeing the lighthouse up close always created an unwanted tightness in his chest. It was easier to stay in the boathouse and retreat occasionally to one of their watering holes.

“Turn right in four hundred feet.” Siri’s voice snapped Reid into the present moment. He turned onto the street lined with traditional Charleston-style row houses painted in assorted pastel colors. Maggie lives here; this is her street.

Glancing at the street numbers, he realized her apartment should be a couple blocks down on the left. He pulled into a parallel space across the street, and stared at what his GPS map said was her front door. How was he going to do this without scaring the hell out of her? He clutched the steering wheel. He could always wait a couple hours until daybreak. No way, man. You drove all night to get here. You gotta do this. Before he could let himself think about it any further, he hopped out of the Jeep and ran into the rain.

Reid checked the address number one last time before knocking on the door.

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