Lost Time by C. A. Higgins

Author:C. A. Higgins [Higgins, C. A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Covey Publishing, LLC
Published: 2018-11-15T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

The nap helped to give her a little clarity. She always knew Henry harbored a little something for her in high school. But it was completely harmless. And she assumed he grew out of it when they became better friends in college. Their friendship survived for well over a decade, and he never once made a move. Not that she wanted him to. Her interest in Henry was purely platonic. She depended on his friendship and nothing else.

The surprising part about the conversation at brunch was the conviction of her friends. Patty and Katie didn’t like Henry--she knew this--but she was surprised at how much they actively disliked him. She wouldn’t ignore her friend’s opinions. Not after Scott. Up to a point, she believed them. It was possible Henry held onto feelings for her from when they were younger. But she took offense to the implication he somehow sabotaged any part of her life because of it. She always believed he had her best interests at heart.

But what Sonia said about Landon and her was also true. They had been inseparable since preschool. And she trusted him absolutely, until Henry convinced her she shouldn’t. Even as he left her the last time, he insisted it wasn’t true. She wanted to believe him so badly. But Henry’s words played on repeat in her head: “Don’t let him keep walking all over you. Stand up for yourself and let him know he can’t treat you this way.”

Being more objective about it, Henry always said things like that to her. In high school, he told her Landon constantly told other guys she was off limits. Their freshman year in college, it was that Landon was off forgetting all about her. And any time she brought him up after their night together, Henry told her she was selling herself short and she needed to be stronger.

She pulled up in front of Henry’s little bungalow and put her head down on the steering wheel. What if her friends were right and Henry had simply been playing the long game? Granted, the longest game anyone ever heard of, but… What if he never really was her friend to begin with? If Henry lied to her, how did she reconcile the years she missed with Landon?

Katie and Patty seemed positive about Henry wanting something from her. And neither of them knew Henry or Landon before Letty introduced them. Their entire opinion of Henry was based on watching the way he acted around her, and neither of them believed he was a good person. What if they could sense something she was blind to?

The knock on her passenger window stopped her slow spiral. She turned her head to the side. Henry peered back at her through the window. His sandy hair fell into his eyes as he smiled at her.

“Are you going to come out of there? You’ve been sitting in front of my house for the past twenty minutes. It’s getting a little creepy now.”

Twenty minutes? Letty unlocked the doors and pulled herself out of the car.

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