No Perfect Hero by Snow Nicole

Author:Snow, Nicole [Snow, Nicole]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Ice Lips Press
Published: 2019-04-01T16:00:00+00:00

11

Disaster Zone (Haley)

I so wasn’t ready to see Eddy again.

That’s what I keep thinking on the drive back to Charming Inn. Kicking myself the whole way.

Honestly, I wasn’t ready to see him again because I never wanted to see him at all. And when he showed up outside the cabin with that shit-eating grin and the pleading started...I had to spare Tara from a scene.

She was half the reason I didn’t punch him right then. And the other half was because just seeing his face brought that horrible, sick feeling back.

The same feeling I'd had in the bridal shop, in the fitting room, in the dress I was going to wear to our freaking wedding. I couldn’t find either him or Britney anywhere. So I followed the hint of familiar voices and walked in on them fucking in a fitting room with her bridesmaid dress around her hips.

If they wanted to completely destroy me in three seconds flat, they'd found a good way to do it.

I’ve always prided myself on being strong. Practical and no-nonsense, to balance my creative flights of fancy.

But that day something fragile and emotional inside me shattered, some precious thing I’d trusted to Eddy to hold.

He'd crushed it like a playground bully swinging a baseball bat at a ladybug.

And then he'd shown up today and used the sharp jagged fragments to try to cut me again.

All because the selfish prick can’t stand losing.

All because he never learned to take no for an answer.

All because it’s too big a blow to his ego.

That had to be part of the thrill, for him, the day he was busted – playing this risky game of getting caught, convinced he could manage both Britney and me in the same building, with no one the wiser.

It’s strange how clearly I can see him now.

I don’t know why I ever fell for his flat, false, too-smooth face. Why I thought he was someone he wasn’t. Why I believed I loved him, when I know now I can do so much better.

Not that the man sitting quietly behind the steering wheel is any sane option for better, but...I can’t deny one thing.

If my heart sank at the sight of Eddy, it nearly floated to the moon when Warren called me his girl.

I'm not crazy. I know it was just a heat of the moment thing meant to scare Eddy off, but it made me realize my feelings are way more conflicted than I thought.

I can’t dwell on them right now, though. I’m not going to lie, I’m down in a dark place, and when Warren pulls the truck up near our cabin and we get out, the first thing I do is tell Tara to go up to the main house and see if Ms. Wilma needs some help with her crocheting.

It’s better right now. Better for everyone.

She keeps giving me these mournful little looks that tell me her ten-year-old head is too conscious about how I'm feeling. I don’t want the awful way I feel to rub off on her and bring her down.

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