Sweet Emotion by Austin Bates

Author:Austin Bates [Bates, Austin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Equal Love Publishing
Published: 2019-01-18T00:00:00+00:00

7

Harrison

I watched Kade disappear into the crowd, pushing his way through without any attempts to be polite. My chest ached. I gripped the arms of my chair as hard as I could, digging my fingers in. My nails bent back, the pain providing a slight distraction from the onslaught of embarrassment brought on by all the eyes watching me. These amazing people I had just honored and made feel so special had been witness to an event I didn’t understand except to know it was awkward and much too public.

My cheeks burned. The lights were too bright here. Everyone could see, must think I’d lost my mind or my dignity. Well, I certainly felt like I’d lost something, something Kade had given me that he had taken away again when he walked off.

“Mr. Carr?” a soft voice said.

Gentle Mrs. Morgan, the widowed woman in charge of the rec center, looked at me in the way a person might look at a defenseless, confused infant.

No. No, I can’t let them see me as being weak. Panic clawed my lungs with needle talons. Struggling to control my breathing, I pushed myself to sit up straighter in my chair. “I’m fine.” I forced the words through gritted teeth, not sounding fine at all. “I think I need to get some fresh air.”

“O-of course.”

I pushed myself away from the stage, blinded by fear and desperation, my heart pounding so hard I thought it might come bursting out of my chest at any moment. People jumped out of my way, although once again they seemed less like people and more like strange beings who didn’t belong on this world. Or, maybe I was the one who didn’t belong.

The place I used to go to get air was now tainted by memories of Kade. I thought he was so nice, so funny and sensitive, but I had been wrong and it hurt. What hurt even worse was that Kade seemed to think he’d been wrong about me too. The best thing for me to do now was to go home. Get out of here. Let the gossip grow in my absence now that I’d outed myself as being on a sugar daddy dating app. Scandals were nothing new to big businesses, but I never thought I or my company would be involved in one.

One of the security guards standing watch over the front doors bid me a good night, which I ignored. I headed for the ramp and let momentum carry me down until I hit the bottom. I turned to the parking lot and started off again, and that was when someone grabbed my chair from behind.

Anger flashed bright and red behind my eyes, blocking out all other lights. I hated when people touched my chair. I could usually forget about my condition until someone grabbed onto the damn contraption, reminding me how much easier I could be overtaken and manipulated than the average person.

I pushed on my wheels and burst out of the person’s grip with startling ease, almost toppling out of the chair and onto my face.

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