Finding You: A Sweet Girl Novel (Sweet Girl Duet Book 2) by Jack Whitney

Author:Jack Whitney [Whitney, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-04-12T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTY - CHLOE

LIFE BEFORE GAVIN walked back into it was beginning to feel like a distant memory.

Skydiving had been so much fun that he’d retaken me on Sunday. All that adrenaline, the screaming, the wind, the jump… I was impressed that I hadn’t given in to that desire for him. It had been so intense that I’d made him bring me home immediately after on Sunday so that I didn’t do anything impulsive.

Just lust. Nothing more.

Because that was all it could be.

Anything more was too frightening to consider.

It had already been another week. Gavin had brought food twice to my office, and we’d texted throughout the days like best friends that needed to tell each other everything.

Tyler would be coming home on Monday.

I wasn’t ready for reality to come crashing down on me.

The last two weeks with Gavin had felt like a month, like Tyler was some distant memory far in the back of my head, and my wedding to him wasn’t just three weeks out. Although, the texts I kept getting from Tyler’s mother ensured I remembered it. Apparently, rain was forecasted for that week, and there was no telling her that weather forecasts three weeks in advance weren’t reliable at all. I wondered if that was why Tyler had left so close to the wedding—so he wouldn’t be stressed about the little things coming from his family.

My family didn’t seem to be bothered. All my mother kept asking was if her dress was nice enough. She had bought one but continued shopping to look for others in case she found a nicer one.

Despite all that, I still felt like I was in some giddy little bubble. As if that was the nightmare and my days with Gavin were reality.

Every workday, I spent too long staring at the elevator doors, my heart jumping every time its bell chimed in anticipation of Gavin making an appearance, and every night, it was him I was texting right before I fell asleep.

I wanted to be mad at Gavin for making me a silly teenager all over again. It felt like the beginning of a relationship—something I had sworn to myself I would never feel again—where there was so much hope, butterflies, and downright bliss. The kind that kept you up at night because, for once, your reality was better than your dreams.

It was disgusting and terrifying and amazing all at once. The last time I’d felt this way, it had turned into something I barely escaped. That thought kept me level and reminded me not to trip over my feet as I strode further and further toward a four-letter word that I refused to utter.

But it was so fucking hard denying it.

“Your toaster is smoking,” Lana said over our video chat on Friday morning.

The smell of burning toast broke me out of my daze as I stared at my phone, waiting for Gavin to text me back.

“Shit,” I said, scrambling for the toaster. The black toast burned my fingers when I grabbed it, and I nearly threw it onto my plate.

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