The Chance (As Above Book 4) by Rae Stone

Author:Rae Stone [Stone, Rae]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grymm Publications LLC
Published: 2025-02-17T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Forty-Nine

Jordan

The space between Mac and me hurts.

He doesn’t trust me.

The thought runs through my head like it’s a marathon, circling and circling, with no end in sight.

It’s another layer to the shitstorm that has my hands shaking and my stomach in a permanent knot.

Which has made being at his Ma’s house, surrounded by not only his band but all of security, such a hard place to pretend at.

To act like I’m not waiting for every glance of his to land on mine from across the room, or each pass of his to stop by me.

But why would he when he’s spent so long without me?

Having sex with him once won’t change that.

God, I just want to fucking touch him. Hold him. Tell him this isn’t just a—

I shake my head.

Just a phase? Was I really about to say that to myself?

The thing about phases is that you never really know it’s not permanent until one day you wake up and realize you’re still listening to the same type of angsty music, or wearing all black, even decades later.

I tip off my hat—its worn out nature an icon of my exact thought pattern with its faded black tint and the missing Trapt logo from the front—and run a hand through my hair.

I’m infatuated with the drummer of a band not too different than the very one that made me love rock music.

I mean, what teenager didn’t envy all the musicians of every band they listened to?

A tingling sensation runs down my neck and I blink myself back to the room.

Except it’s full of people that are already busy entertaining each other.

“I’m gonna do a walk,” I say to no one in particular and spin back to the door.

The boards underfoot creak the moment I step out it, the scent of fresh outdoors filling my lungs with each step that leads me around the back of the house.

Toby’s on the patio with Ma, their heads scrunched together.

“Ma, I need a favor, and you can’t say no.” I hear him say as I pass and shake my head.

“If that’s how you’re asking, then the answer should probably be no,” the woman answers and I snort to myself and keep walking.

Before I realize it, I’m standing in a clearing with only one tree breaking up the grass, staring at the bottom of a treehouse built into its sturdy trunk, a ladder leading up into the belly of it beckoning me.

It’s already open, a glow illuminating the inside as I climb up.

The first thing to hit me is the haze of smoke, then the scent of burning weed as I breach the floor and vault myself up to sit with my legs dangling through the opening.

“You shouldn’t be in here.”

“Hey to you, too, Vida.”

Mac snorts and blows a plume of smoke through his nose. “I’m smoking. Get out.”

I shake my head. “When did you even come out here?”

“You were too zoned out to see me walk right past you.”

My jaw grits.

Shit.

“Has it hit you

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