Ride - The Complete Romance Series by Nella Tyler

Author:Nella Tyler [Tyler, Nella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-03-19T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

DRAKE

My father went on for half an hour about what I would do after the Laguna competition. I realized when he finally left the table that Summer had never come back. She was probably with my sister. God, I hoped Chrissy and the rest of the snobs at that table behaved themselves.

“Have you seen Summer?” I asked Chrissy when I got to her table. My mother was sitting and talking to Chrissy and Searcy.

“Not recently,” Chrissy said.

“Surely, she’s here somewhere. She wouldn’t just leave, would she?” Mother asked.

I looked back at Chrissy. Something in her face told me she knew more than she was letting on. “Not unless someone said something to make her feel like she didn’t belong here. You don’t know anything about that, do you, Sis?”

“Me? No, of course not. Why would you think that?”

Mother turned those piercing blue eyes on me and said, “Yes, Drake, why would you think that? Was there something in particular you were worried about someone using against her?” I’m sure if Sabrina told Chrissy about Summer, Chrissy had already filled Mother in.

“There is nothing she has to be ashamed of, Mom. Chrissy was asking her a lot of questions earlier, and she was pretty uncomfortable.” I gave my sister a look and she tried to give me an innocent one in return, but there was something there and I was suddenly worried. I kept my eyes on Chrissy as I said, “I just want to make sure that she’s okay.”

“I was simply asking her about herself. Why would that make her uncomfortable?” Chrissy asked with an eye roll. “Maybe she does have something to hide.”

I glared at my sister. It was obvious to me now that someone told her about Summer. She was taunting me. “No, she doesn’t. Excuse me.” I felt their eyes on my back as I made my way over to where Lance was sitting. I hadn’t spoken to him tonight, but it seemed like he’d done a lot of talking about me and Summer.

“Lance! I need to talk to you.”

“Sure, dude! Have a seat.” He sounded like he’d had one too many drinks already. He’s kind of an ass when he’s drunk.

“Alone.”

He reached up and touched the side of his still bruised mouth. “I don’t think so.”

I tried reasoning first, “Come on, Lance. This is me. We’ve been friends forever. I need you, man.”

“For what, Spence? Did you need me to go looking for the street urchin? She could be in any dumpster by now.” I reached down for him, and he pushed his chair back and stood up. The only thing that kept me from once again knocking him on his ass was my father’s face looking at me from just slightly behind him.

“What’s this about?” Lance startled at the sound of my father’s voice. He turned towards him and at the same time we both said,

“Just a disagreement.” My father somehow had the ability to restore us to the age of twelve on a whim.

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