Hidden River Deception by KT Strange

Author:KT Strange
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Heartcandies Publishing
Published: 2019-12-27T22:00:00+00:00

10

SHAWN

After Mia went to go talk to Colt, Coach Quinn left with my brother, and came back by himself with a duffel bag of my stuff.

“Your brother packed it for you,” he said, tossing it to me. I wrapped my hands around the strap, the weight heavy in my hands. I swallowed around the hurt in my throat.

“Did they say anything?” I asked. Coach just gave me a sad look, and shook his head.

“Why don’t we work something up for dinner,” he said. “Feel like spaghetti and meatballs?”

So that was how it was gonna be. My parents had just sort of carved me out of their heart, leaving more room for Garrett to flourish in. And I was gone, away from them, and not likely to cause anymore ‘scenes’ as my mother liked to call it.

I could cause a ‘scene’ just by breathing, just by looking at a guy the wrong way. I’d tried with Shiv, I’d really tried, being the good boyfriend, getting her gifts, taking her to all the dance, and shows in town even, working extra hard to prove what a good little straight boy I was.

While in the back of my mind, Mia had lived, lodged like a sliver under my skin, having all the things I could never with Buck… and somehow, in my chase of her?

I was a fucking idiot. I just was. Because I’d fallen for her, without even realizing it. Breaking her heart was probably the worst thing I’d ever done in my life. I didn’t deserve her, or Buck either. I didn’t deserve anything.

My father may have been an asshole, but he was fucking right. Nothing about me was natural. Everything about me was disgusting, and vile.

Mia came home later that night with glowing cheeks, with Cael as her silent shadow. He left shortly after he dropped her off, clapping me on the shoulder. Sometimes I really didn’t get him. He was stepping in and fixing things for us like… like we were Reid or something. God that was a horrible thing to be compared to. Reid was such a fucked up hot mess.

School was going to be rough, and even though Garrett kept texting me funny cat memes, the smile I wore didn’t touch my heart. Living with the Quinns was a temporary situation. Where I went next was anybody’s guess. Who fucking knew. It was hard not to feel sad and pathetic. I had a trust fund, but it was locked up until I hit eighteen. I guess my great-grandfather never counted on his grandson being a total homophobic prick and basically cutting out one of his kids from the family life.

Not having money was a weird feeling, like I was free-falling and had nowhere to land. I was sick about it, because what if I needed something? Money made problems go away. It didn’t fix your life, but it made it easier. You could just throw money at it, and most of the time, the monsters disappeared.

But now? I was lost without a path.

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