The No Regrets Groom by Taylor Hart

Author:Taylor Hart [Hart, Taylor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ArchStone Ink
Published: 2019-01-22T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Ziggy stared across the RV at Ty, a myriad of emotions running through him. When they’d finally come back to the RV after kissing for a long time, Sophia had told him she would drive. She’d also told Paul he would sit in front with her. It was stupid, but Ziggy hadn’t wanted to let go of her hand, and he really did feel like he was in eighth grade after the Sweetheart’s Ball when he’d first told her he loved her.

The sun was setting as they edged across the highway toward Jackson. Ziggy and Ty had both been messing around on their phones, ignoring each other.

Ziggy stared out the window, wondering if he would have been married to Soph by now. If they would have had kids. He thought about all the time they’d lost together.

“I am sorry,” Ty whispered.

Ziggy wasn’t at the breaking point any longer. No, now he didn’t know how to feel toward Ty. It was dicey. They had this tour, and Ty had an incurable illness. Ziggy sighed.

“It … it just got away from me.”

Ziggy met Ty’s blue eyes—Ty had always been a blue-eyed blondie. Ziggy remembered teaching Ty how to ride his bike when he was like three. He’d been such a cute kid, truly the baby of the brothers. They’d adored him. “I’d step in front of a bullet for you, bro,” he said, and he meant it.

Ty’s fragile composure broke for a second. Then his lips pinched. “I’d do the same for you, and you know it.”

Ziggy suddenly wanted to punch him. “You ripped out my heart.”

“I know. I know.” Ty winced and looked out the window. “It all just got away from me. I don’t know how. It just happened, and then I couldn’t fix it.”

“I thought you were different.”

“I know. It’s really not an excuse, but I knew that. I knew I would disappoint you. Them.” Ty looked away, wiping beneath his eyes. “I’m selfish. And I know that. Isn’t it stupid that I worried about disappointing you and Dax about as much as Dad?” He scoffed. “When I was in drug rehab, we talked a lot about how you shouldn’t worry about other people’s expectations of you, but all of you guys had high expectations. I was a total screw-up.”

Ziggy didn’t like emotional crap like this. Out of everything Ty had said, about the football and his father and all of it, the thing he hated the most was the self-pity. “Dude, c’mon. You were like the Michael Jackson of the Brady Five. I remember feeling jealous of the way Mom and Dad looked at you. Like you were some angel who couldn’t do any wrong.”

Ty grunted. “Guess I didn’t see it that way.”

Ziggy tried to refocus himself, like he’d learned to do playing football. “Listen, nothing matters but right now. The past doesn’t define you. Past mistakes are just mistakes that we can’t change.” He was telling himself this as much as Ty. He needed to believe it so he could forgive him.

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