Resurrection by Evelyn Montgomery

Author:Evelyn Montgomery [Montgomery, Evelyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Independent
Published: 2020-05-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Rose

The car stops in the driveway of a house I have never been to before and I close my eyes for a moment wondering how any of the events tonight happened, and how any of this is even possible. How did I even get here? And what the hell does it all mean?

Last thing I remember was the jealousy I felt for a man that isn’t even mine, before he pummeled one of my oldest friends against the bar top for a comment he shouldn’t have made. I only open my eyes again when the man whose head is in my lap begins to stir and tries to sit up. Troy has already exited the vehicle and is quick to open the passenger door as Justin rights himself and takes a moment before attempting to climb out of the car.

“Take it easy, J.” I hear Troy say as he helps his friend.

“I’m not that drunk anymore asshole,” Justin mutters quietly, but loud enough so me and Erica hear as I give her a small, sad smile and we both exit the vehicle as well.

“I wouldn’t think so, not with the amount of barf you hurled up out back of the bar,” Troy laughs. I hear Justin moan as he tries to steady himself on his feet before looking up at his place in front of us.

Looking back at Troy he says, “I did do that, didn’t I?”

Attempting to lighten the mood, Troy chuckles and says, “Yeah, but hell if I don’t appreciate you doing it before you got in my car. Thanks Brother!” He slaps him on the back in a brotherly way before the two of them exchange a sad laugh.

When Troy calmed my nerves about driving, promising he hadn’t drank a drop of alcohol since lunch, and only had two beers at that, I climbed in the backseat where Justin laid his head in my lap and quickly passed out for the almost 40 minute ride home. I look across the driveway at both of them and frown, not sure what to do or say after everything that just happened at the bar and having now found myself at my boss’s house. My slightly drunk boss’s house. A man who I should hate more than anything for what just happened but I also can’t help but not hate him as the hurt I saw in his eyes, the pain I heard in his voice, and the misery I felt as he tried to push everyone away caught my attention and called to the place inside me where all the same damn emotions grow.

“Just let me get him inside and I will…” Troy begins to say, but he is cut off as his friend turns to me with sad eyes and takes a step forward.

“Rose,” he whispers. “Can you walk me inside? There is something… I need to…” Justin trails off before looking away and making my heart stop as I stand there wanting, needing him to continue. He looks back in my eyes before his gaze drops to the floor and he shoves his hands in his pockets.

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