Ink Exposed by Carrie Ann Ryan

Author:Carrie Ann Ryan [Ryan, Carrie Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-11-28T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Alexander had called, but she’d been on the phone with her mother at the time. And then Tabby had been too scared to call back. She knew that was a cop out, but she’d needed time to think about what she’d seen, what she’d told him before that, and what they were going to do when they saw each other again.

She was a coward.

When he’d called the second time, she answered, not knowing what she would say, but she hadn’t been able to stop herself. The thing was, she trusted him not to drink, trusted in his strength. She just didn’t trust in herself enough to be enough for him to not go back to Jessica.

He’d loved that woman so much; it had actually hurt to see. They’d looked perfect together, and though she knew there had to be problems since they hadn’t stayed married, she didn’t know if those problems could be erased over time. Alexander had never spoken about it, and she hadn’t been able to ask.

And she hated that her self-doubt reared its ugly head at that.

They hadn’t spoken long on the call and had only made sure each other was okay. Though she had a feeling they had both lied when they’d said they were fine. Instead of the lazy weekend she’d envisioned with him, they’d said they’d see each other Monday and had only texted a little since.

She hadn’t been able to cut herself off from him completely, and she hadn’t wanted to. From the way he texted back just as quickly as she did, perhaps he felt the same way.

Tabby wanted to slam her hand into her planner at the thought.

Since when was this high school, and why did she care about texts and calls and notes as much as she did. She needed to get her head out of her butt and start acting like an adult. Only, acting like an adult was a whole lot harder when there were actually problems in the world.

Instead of banging her head against anything, however, she set about working since her list for the day seemed to be twice as long as usual. It had been quiet that morning since Wes was at a project site and Storm had locked himself in one of the back offices to hunker down with some sketches, but she hadn’t minded. The peacefulness had let her think…of course, thinking about Alexander wasn’t the best thing for her to be doing right then. The man in question would be in later that afternoon to talk with the twins about what was needed next for the project he was working on and show them what he had come up with. Tabby had already seen some of it when she’d been at his house, and she wasn’t quite sure what she was going to do about that since she didn’t feign surprise well. She loved the direction he was going, but since no one knew they were together, it was getting awkward.

They needed to somehow let everyone know soon, and she figured Alexander understood that, as well.

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