Seeing Sound (Tasting Madness Book 1) by Albany Walker

Author:Albany Walker [Walker, Albany]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Albany Publishing
Published: 2022-09-07T16:00:00+00:00

Memphis

The chair makes a squelching sound as Makayla tries to scoot even closer to me. I thought my disinterest would be enough to get her to leave me alone, but it’s clear that’s not going to work when she’s still talking to me five minutes after Oz and Bates left to get food.

“Did you do anything over the summer?”

“Worked.” I don’t go into details, and she doesn’t ask for any.

“I miss hanging out with you,” she tells me just as I see Oz, Waylynn, and Bates walking toward the table. She looks exactly like she did this afternoon, wearing fitted jeans and a T-shirt that slides off her shoulder every once in a while, exposing her pink bra strap. Her fingers are curled tightly around a dining tray.

I forget all about who’s next to me until I see her eyes drift to the left. I get to my feet as Oswald places his heaping tray on the table. “Look who I found.” He takes Waylynn’s tray from her hands and places it next to his.

Bates grabs the top of a chair from another table and spins it around so it’s sitting at the end, near Waylynn. The table only seats four, so there’s barely any room for his tray, but he makes it work.

The moment Waylynn lowers herself into the chair Oz pulled out for her, Makayla does a weird finger wave. “Hey, I’m Makayla.”

“I’m going to get something to eat,” I announce before Waylynn can respond. Everyone at the table looks at me like I’m a dick, or maybe I just feel like one, besides Waylynn, who keeps her eyes on the table.

The urge to tell her to look at me is strong, but I clench my jaw. “Hurry up so we’re not done before you even get your food,” Oz tells me.

Makayla pushes up from the table, but instead of walking away like I hoped she would, she follows me.

“Your brother has a girlfriend?” She lingers near the salad counter.

“Does it matter?”

“I didn’t know the Gravlin men committed, and she’s not what I expected.” Her reply is flippant.

“Expected how?” I turn to face her. It might be the first time I’ve actually looked at her today.

“I don’t know.” She lifts a shoulder. “Have they been together long? You never mentioned her.”

“I don’t recall us talking much about anything,” I retort. It wasn’t meant to be a compliment, but it seems like that’s the way she takes it when she pushes her chest closer to me and peers up at me through her lashes. It does absolutely nothing for me. My pulse doesn’t quicken the way it does when Waylynn looks at me like this, and my fingers don’t ache to grab her. If anything, I just want her to move the hell away from me.

“That’s because we were always busy doing other things.” Her voice is pitched low in an attempt to be alluring.

I take a step back from her, creating space. “And now we’re not doing either.”

“We could be,” she offers while still gazing up at me.

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