Echoes of the Heart by Casey L.A

Author:Casey, L.A.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Montlake
Published: 2021-05-24T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

RISK

It was Friday, two days before we had to leave Southwold and go to London.

It was interesting to me that just days ago I was dreading coming home to Southwold because of Frankie, and now I was dreading leaving because of her too. A handful of days, that was all it took for her to mess my head up a million different ways. She said we were friends, but when I kissed her, she kissed me back somethin’ fierce. When I hugged her body to mine, she squeezed me to the point of pain. When she looked at me, I saw emotion for me in her eyes. Or at least I thought I did. I wasn’t sure if I was imagining her reactions to me because I wanted them to be real and not just some figment of my own imagination.

It was fucked up, but that was just the way things were.

“When we leave on Sunday,” May said, interrupting my thoughts. “Are you gonna come back?”

“Come back after the gigs?”

“No,” my friend replied. “Are you gonna ever come back?”

I looked from the road, to May, and back again.

“Of course,” I answered. “I’m not leaving Frankie again.”

I realised that I had made that decision the second I saw her in the PE hall of Sir John Leman’s High School. Now that I had her back in my life, there was no way I could just carry on without her in it. I couldn’t do it; I didn’t want to either.

“See, this is where I’m confused.” May sighed. “You don’t live in England, you stay in your house in London for maybe a total of six weeks throughout a year. You don’t live in Southwold at all . . . Frankie does.”

My hands tightened around the steering wheel.

“I’m fully aware of all of that, May.”

“Are you really?” he pressed. “I don’t think you are, main man, because ever since she forgave you for being the world’s biggest dickhead in the diner a few days ago, you’ve wanted to spend every minute of the day with her. I don’t give a fuck what you say, you are not just friends. Even back when you were friends you were never really friends. You both have always just been . . . more.”

He was right. Frankie and I had always been more, we could never be ‘just friends’ with one another. I knew that and deep down she knew that too.

“I don’t know what to tell you, mate.” I sighed. “I thought seeing her again would go differently. I thought maybe I’d see her and feel nothing and that I’d be able to fully move on from her with a clear head but fuck, May. She’s all I can think about, I want her so badly I can’t think straight.”

“Want her how? For sex? As your girl? What?”

“All of the above.” I grunted. “I want her, but I can’t fucking have her. Nothing about our lives has changed. She couldn’t cope with the thought

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