The Hardest Fall (Roadmap to Your Heart Book 3) by Christina Lee

Author:Christina Lee [Lee, Christina]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2016-06-22T21:00:00+00:00

21

Sebastian

I couldn’t stop watching Tate’s videos. Dark Eyes. Is that what he called me behind my back? Damn it. I had definitely screwed everything up.

I fucking hate you Alan, I whispered to myself as I placed the laptop on the bed and stood up to shower. But it was really me who was to blame for all of this.

I was so clear in the beginning about what I was going to do. But I hadn’t banked on Tate and everything he embodied, on being completely spellbound by him, and I hadn’t counted on seeing that hurt in his eyes below the surface, the hollowness that I thought only I ever felt. That had changed everything and now I was in this strange situation where I didn’t know what to do.

Driving myself crazy thinking about it wasn’t going to help. I climbed in the shower, and quickly washed up, ignoring the urge to daydream about how Tate had confessed that he liked how I smelled. After I got dressed, I stopped for coffee and bagels and browsed the newspaper as I sipped at the warm liquid that did little to satisfy the growing cold spot in my belly.

When Annie breezed in the shop I was at the back table fixing a row of leather buttons on a pair of ankle boots and was so preoccupied that she actually startled me.

“You okay?” she asked as I held my chest and sucked some needed air into my lungs. “Didn’t mean to sneak up on you. You were pretty focused on something. I’m going to guess it wasn’t those buttons.”

Straight to the point as always. I may not have talked to her much, but she always sensed when important things were going on in my psyche. She guessed when my last relationship ended before we ever said the words.

I’d never been opposed to having a girlfriend, I was a monogamous kind of guy, but something always felt off. The only girl who had ever been something special to me was my first love when I was seventeen. I was so into that girl. But soon that fizzled out as well.

Annie cleared her throat and I realized she was still waiting on a response from me. She was such a good person and I never let her inside. I’d been such a closed off asshole. But she was one of the only loyal and decent friends I had.

“I’ve been better,” I muttered and then quickly changed the subject. “I got you a bagel and some coffee.”

She looked over at her workstation and smiled. “Thanks, I could use a cup. Karen and I have had a couple of late nights.”

“You were out again last night?” I pulled myself out of my own headspace to ask the question.

“A party at her co-worker’s place,” she said, motioning out the door. “In midtown.” I knew that Annie hated going anywhere near midtown, especially if there was a street sale or parade. After living here so long you learned what

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