Guide Me: A New In Town, Standalone Romance by Ivy Evergreen

Author:Ivy Evergreen [Evergreen, Ivy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Greens & Blues Publishing
Published: 2022-05-22T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter twenty-four

SAWYER

I would love to pretend I’m stronger that this, but I possess zero will power, so I check my phone one more time.

Still nothing.

Fuck me. I have become that girl. The one who no longer has independent thoughts of her own because she is so wrapped up in a guy and wondering why he’s ghosting her.

That’s maybe a smidge too dramatic.

Logan isn’t officially ghosting me. At least not yet. But ever since he left Wilder’s early the other night, he answers my texts with brief replies and does not engage with me. Gone is the Logan sending me either flirty or dirty texts. I can’t figure it out. We went from zero to sixty back to zero.

Except we never started at zero, did we? From the moment we met, there was a spark between us. It became harder to deny each time we saw each other. So we never even started at zero, but it seems like we are heading there now.

“That was great, huh?” Glancing up from my phone, I see Mae. I didn’t even realize she had pulled up. I am standing outside the visitor center where she and I just finished presenting on various types of cacti to a tour group.

That may sound boring as hell, but it’s not. The cacti found in Joshua Tree are abundant and beautiful and I could go on about them for hours. Mae and I (hopefully) made the presentation interesting. Based on the feedback we got from the attendees, everyone seemed to enjoy themselves and learn something.

Right after our presentation finished, Mae had to run out to check on something, but came back to pick me up so that we could go to our spot to hide and eat our lunches.

I should celebrate this win with Mae, as we have been planning this presentation for a bit and it’s the first of its kind I have helped lead since starting here at Joshua Tree. But, I can’t even be excited for us. I am instead stewing over a boy. Not only am I not celebrating, but I also am not even angry about an incident that happened earlier today. A few shithead visitors were making comments about the female rangers being unfeminine and “man-ish.” It was shitty, but, it barely even registered because I was so caught up in my thoughts of Logan.

So on top of everything else, I’m a shitty feminist. I didn’t stand up for myself (and other female rangers) earlier to those losers and I’m not celebrating a win at work because I’m wrapped up in whether a dumb boy likes me, or not. I want to scream. And I want to chuck my phone so I’m not tempted to check it anymore.

I’m pissed. Pissed at him for treating me this way. Pissed at myself for being pathetic.

I can’t get it out of my head, but I hesitate to talk to Mae about it. She is friends with both of us, so I don’t want to put her in a weird position.

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