THE REBOUND_A NOVEL by J. R. Rogue

Author:J. R. Rogue [Rogue, J. R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ROGUE BOOKS
Published: 2019-07-18T04:00:00+00:00

CALLIOPE

PRESENT

Apollo: You never did want to face shit. Face your mistakes. You think you can just run away from them? Again?

Apollo: I’m always going to be waiting for you. Because I love you. Can’t you see that?

SEAN

PRESENT/ON THE ROAD

I spent just shy of a month at the lake house in the Ozark woods with Calliope, mapping her body, pretending she would one day be open with me, terrified of being caught in our scandal. And I was only scared of being caught by the one person, even more so than Jo, that couldn’t say a damn thing to me about what I was doing. He had done worse.

One part of my body was in ecstasy, one was in torment, waiting for the owner of the life I was tasting, to come back and claim it. Though Calliope was no longer his to take. I hoped.

We spent less than two weeks at my place before we left. Every day Calliope was becoming more withdrawn, drifting away from me.

At first, I sat on the bench near the largest window in my place, staring out, writing, asking for her input. She was my muse and I wanted her thoughts on the way I was painting her, but she didn’t critique, offer alterations or little endearments the way Jo did. It took me a few days, but I finally let what I was doing hit me. I wanted her to fill a role she didn’t want to fill, to take over, to do the way the former couldn’t.

I received two more letters from Jo before we left. Though I wanted them to stop, I couldn’t reach out to her. I was afraid of what I might say to her. I was afraid she would cry and I would forgive her.

I knew I would never take her back, but I didn’t want to give her the chance to claim my forgiveness. It was something that fell out of me, unbidden, at times. Even when I was so sure I felt no intention of offering it.

The first time I saw Jo her hair was blue. It changed with her mood, though she favored pink. She said it was the aura she wanted others to see. She was so good at manipulating me, right from the start.

I look over at Calliope. Trying to read her aura.

I am not at ease behind the wheel of a car. Finding fame so early in life allowed me to avoid losing myself in that rite of passage.

Jo taught me to drive after she got her car when we lived at the lake house.

The car she ended up getting was out of her price range, far beyond what she had saved, and I see now, it was a gift from Apollo.

I wonder now at what I didn't see back then, how naive I was. I wonder at when they started, and how Calliope reacted to the news of their affair, the way she seemed resigned, not shocked.

I have so many questions to ask her, but I bottle them up, decide to lose myself in this idea of our future instead.

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