Mountains Climbed (Mountains Series Book 2) by Phoebe Alexander

Author:Phoebe Alexander [Alexander, Phoebe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mountains Wanted Publishing
Published: 2020-01-29T16:00:00+00:00

Garrett: I’ll be landing at 2:17. You’re still picking me up?

Sarah: Make other arrangements.

Her phone immediately lit up with a call from him, but she ignored it.

She went alone to visit Rachel that evening and explained what had happened. Her best friend was flabbergasted. “Garrett seemed so ideal, so open and genuine. I don’t understand why he would do this.”

“Me either,” Sarah agreed. “He promised we would be open about all of our activities and lovers. I told him I’d be seeing Pawel, and he was perfectly fine with it. I don’t understand why he’d lie to me when he had no reason to.”

“Immaturity maybe? He’s only twenty-seven. Maybe he’s fine with you having other lovers, but he’s not quite secure in the fact you’ll be okay with him doing it too.”

“Her profile said they’re in a D/s relationship,” Sarah added. “That usually doesn’t just happen overnight. I’m guessing he’s known her for a while.”

Rachel shook her head. “I don’t know, but this sucks. I really liked him, too.”

Sarah was numb, unable to produce any tears over the situation. “I’m not sure what to say to him.”

“So you’re really gonna just strand him at the airport?”

“I didn’t strand him,” Sarah fired back. “I told him to make other arrangements!”

“Oh,” Rachel laughed, “I would have ditched his ass!”

They both giggled, then Sarah went off to the kitchen to get Rachel a snack. She saw Thomas peeking around the corner wielding a plastic light saber in one hand and a spaceship in the other. He looked forlorn.

His eyes were sad and lonely like a caged puppy. “When’s Owen coming back?”

Sarah looked at him empathetically. “I miss him too, but he won’t be back till next week.”

Disappointed, Thomas trudged down the hallway and back to his bedroom.

Gods, I really do miss my boy. Owen was always a shining beacon for their family. He has so much of his grandmother in him. I sure hope Daniel doesn’t snuff out any of that light with his cynicism.

As she headed back into the living room with Rachel’s food and drink, her phone vibrated in her pocket. She set the glass and plate down on the end table for her friend before checking the phone to see it was Garrett again. She was suspended on a pendulum, swinging back and forth between “answer it” and “ignore it.”

“You can’t avoid him forever,” Rachel reminded her.

Sarah pressed the button to accept the call and breathed, “Hello,” devoid of inflection, completely neutral.

“Why aren’t you picking me up?” came his tenor voice.

“Aren’t you already back in town?” Sarah asked, still managing to achieve neutrality.

He was silent. Sarah knew how rare it was for Mr. Navigator to be at a loss for words, so she considered it a bit of a victory. When he did speak, he stumbled over his words like his tongue was too long for his mouth: “How did you know?”

“So let me get this straight,” Sarah’s tone grew darker as Rachel’s eyes widened listening to her end of

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