Love You Wrong by Julia Kent

Author:Julia Kent [Kent, Julia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Julia Kent

7

Kell

Kell sat on the side of his bed, elbows on his knees, holding his phone.

Dumping someone by text felt awful.

Alissa wouldn’t take his calls. Wouldn’t answer his texts. He even resorted to email. He’d done everything he could to resolve this honorably. Her message was clear.

Time for him to send his.

Alissa - you’re not answering my calls, texts, or emails. You’ve been distant for the last month, and I feel like I don’t know who you are anymore. I’ll make this easy for you: I’m done. I’m moving on. I hope you get what you’re looking for in life, with whoever you find after me.

The words were surreal–the whole situation was surreal. Did she target him from the start? Decide to sleep with him because of what she thought he could do for her?

And what Ted said – she could have just called his office and directly set up a meeting. Why all the extra?

No one went into a relationship assuming it was doomed from the start.

In their first few months working together, he’d liked her, sure. But over time, her drive became something to admire. It was hot, alluring, a fire in her belly that turned him on. The first time he’d asked her out, she hadn’t been surprised.

Her exact words were, “Took you long enough.”

That confidence had been sexy. Intriguing. Alissa was nothing like the women he’d dated in high school and college, most of them nervous, though sweet. She was bold and unafraid, and she wanted to take the environmental policy world by storm.

And now, he realized with an awful clarity, Kell Luview had been the perfect storm, handed to her when he turned up at EEC eleven months ago. A guy who could hook her up with his relative in Maine government, while Alissa hooked up with Kell.

He’d been used, and he was too clueless to realize it.

Her “maple redneck” jokes stung a bit more now.

Pride was a funny thing. Too much and you were arrogant, too little and you were a doormat. Living somewhere in the middle was more his vibe.

A plume of fury filled his body at the thought of how Alissa was treating him, but worse, how he’d let her. Shaking the feeling he’d been played was not going to be easy.

And when she came back from her “job interviews” or whatever she was up to, he’d have to face her.

No. She would have to face him. Kell had done nothing wrong.

His text was sitting in the typing window, taunting him.

Come on, man. Hit Send. Too chicken to do it?

That voice inside his head was a jerk.

He hit Send and closed his eyes. Until his phone buzzed, five seconds later.

Damn.

It was Alissa.

We need to talk, was all she wrote, as if she hadn’t disappeared on him, as if ghosting on your boyfriend for nearly a week was normal.

And then:

I still want you in my life.

That was vague–what did it mean? It wasn’t an expression of caring.

They hadn’t exchanged I love you’s. He was twenty-three, she was twenty-four, and he’d needed time to grow into that emotion.

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