The Forgotten Summer (Book 2 Newport Beach Series) by Sage Parker

Author:Sage Parker [Parker, Sage]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-06-25T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Byron was the only person who hadn’t seemed at all happy with Abigail’s decision to approach Bee and invite her to help figure out what had happened to Jacob—and to Abigail. He didn’t go so far as to actually say anything, but he excused himself from dinner, claiming that he’d received an urgent call from one of his clients begging him to come immediately to fix a problem in their house. She didn’t want to think Byron had been lying but was sure that she hadn’t seen his phone light up, and he hadn’t joined her and Cleo for dinner since.

Abigail knew she had spent too much time thinking about it in the last few days because she was starting to find herself annoyed by the thought popping back up and making her feel... creepy. It really wasn’t any of her business if Byron didn’t want to have dinner with them. He had, after all, spent every evening with her and Cleo in the days before—maybe one more woman was too much. Abigail made a face at her reflection in the mirror she was cleaning. If Byron turned out to be one of those men who couldn’t stomach being in a room with too many women, she would be equally disappointed as she was surprised.

As she thought back over her interactions with Byron, Abigail concluded that it was deeply unlikely to be that. Unfortunately, as she came to that conclusion, a second explanation popped up—he had been called a heartbreaker. What if he had dated Bee? Abigail made another face; she wasn’t absolutely sure of Bee’s age, but it was a safe bet that Byron was significantly older than her.

Abigail shook her head to try and clear the thought. Bee looked anywhere from twenty-three to thirty-five in different lights—and it wasn’t even any of her business anyway!

“Stop being ridiculous,” she scolded her reflection, “who even cares?”

A voice at the back of her mind whispered: well, clearly you do.

The thought irritated her, but she couldn’t deny that it did. She enjoyed his company, that was all. The fact that he was ridiculously good-looking was just kind of a bonus. Right? Like how the contents of a book don’t change just because it was a special edition hardcover with fancy edges and fan art inside the cover...

Unbidden, the image popped into her mind of the illustration on the front cover of her most recent special edition purchase. It just happened to feature the male main character in his dragon rider uniform that, despite the obvious tactical and temperature disadvantages, did not feature a shirt—just rather tight leather trousers, which also seemed like a disadvantage to Abigail—and a leather jacket that was hanging open in this particular scene. She had laughed at it when she’d read it as well as when she had opened the cover to see that was what they had chosen to go with, but now that she could see the facial similarities between Byron and the illustration, she was blushing furiously.

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