SEAL'd Shut (A Navy SEAL Standalone Romance Novel) by Ivy Jordan

Author:Ivy Jordan [Jordan, Ivy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2017-10-26T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Josh wasn’t home when I finally woke up on the couch next to Tamara. We’d stayed up for hours drinking beer and talking. I gathered my clothes and woke Lisa and Amy, telling them the bad news. Tamara felt horrible for opening the phone. “I shouldn’t have read the text,” she said.

I knew she felt like it was all her fault, but it wasn’t. It was his. I was grateful that she’d read it. At least now I knew he wasn’t perfect. He was a liar.

The construction crew banged away at the house as we moved back in. It still smelled of fire and had a strange, eerie feel to it with black soot still lingering in the crevices of the walls that hadn’t been torn out yet.

“We’re home,” Tamara said.

That word didn’t have the same excitement to it when she said it as it had when Josh had used it.

“What do we do about the shoot next week?” Tamara asked.

Ugh.

“I can do it,” I assured her.

“I don’t want to make you do that,” she said softly.

I’d forgotten about the shoot Josh and I had together. It was the final set of marketing campaigns for the brand, and I dreaded having to be in his arms.

“It’ll be fine,” I said sternly.

“This place is awful,” Lisa moaned.

“Are you sure you don’t want to go to a hotel?” Tamara asked.

“No. You give that money to the charity you planned,” I insisted.

I knew Amy and Lisa weren’t pleased that the money wasn’t being used to secure a fancy hotel. I wasn’t real pleased myself, but I knew giving meant a lot to Tamara, and even though Josh turned out not to be such a great boyfriend, he was a good man who’d taken us four girls in during our time of need.

We all stayed in one room, sharing a queen-sized bed each for two girls. It wasn’t the plush life we’d grown accustomed to while staying at Josh’s, but it was home. Real home.

After three days, Josh still hadn’t tried to contact me. I checked my phone often, to which Tamara would usually catch me and call me out. “Please, stop thinking about him,” she’d say softly.

I always agreed I would, but I never did. I thought about him all the time. I still couldn’t fathom that it had all been fake. I knew there was real emotion in his eyes, and those words he always looked like he was ready to say, but didn’t, I knew what they were.

Tamara took off for the studio, Lisa and Amy had already left for the day, and I had my movie. Why wasn’t I as excited about my lead role as before?

“Are you going to be okay tomorrow?” Tamara asked.

I nodded.

It was my scheduled shoot, the last one I’d ever have to do with Josh. Part of me dreaded the idea of seeing him, but that other part—oh, how it longed to be in his arms once again.

“I’m gonna stop by the station and drop off the check.

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