Driven By Destiny by Eve Carter

Author:Eve Carter [Carter, Eve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Belmonte Publishing, LLC
Published: 2015-03-08T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Lauren

My best friend’s voice still echoed in my mind as I steered my car out of the cement parking structure at Aedyn’s apartment building. Jules was a strong woman, flaky at times, but overall a real bulldog when she needed to be. She wouldn’t have said I needed to go back unless the situation warranted it. If for no other reason, I was going back for her sake.

It looked like I was going to have to face Chip myself and settle this whole mess once and for all. Tell him to get over it and fuck off for good. I would've thought breaking the engagement was the end of him, but now it appeared that his darkness was following me, spreading to my friends, and affecting others. I couldn’t just keep running away and wishing that things would get better. No, Chip was adamant about destroying my happiness. If he couldn’t be happy, he didn’t want anyone to be happy.

I tapped the steering wheel with trembling fingers, the acid in my stomach on overdrive as my mind twisted. Exactly how was I going to explain to Aedyn that I was already in the car and driving? That I wouldn’t be there waiting to go to dinner tonight like I'd promised, wearing the beautiful dress he had bought me.

I touched my necklace and my eyes darted to my phone, propped in the cup holder next to me. The screen was shining with a map of the directions to Interstate 80. I had to call Aedyn now and come up with some semblance of an explanation. I had to at least try to explain. I could lie, say that my dad was ill, but that would just lead to another lie, and then more questions and before long our relationship would be a mess of tangled lies. I didn't want it to be like that with Aedyn. I knew what keeping things in and pushed down did to a person, no matter what it was about. There was no way in hell I wanted anything or anyone to ruin what I had with Aedyn. I needed to be true to myself otherwise I’d be no good to anyone else. No more lies. No more running from my problems. I was responsible for what happened to Jules and I had to go make things right.

I’d already dialed Aedyn’s number and was listening to it ring over the speakers of my car. I took a deep breath and merged into the fast traffic on I-80. If I stayed in the slow lane, I could focus on my conversation without too much attention to the road.

“Hello, sweetness,” Aedyn answered in his sexy, playful voice. I gripped the steering wheel tighter and forced a smiled on my face, hoping that would help.

“Hello, yourself,” I said as brightly as possible. “Sorry to call you at the office, but…”

“No apologies, the timing is actually perfect. We’re on a quick break. What’s up?”

“Well…” I swallowed, still unsure how to say this.

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