The Power to Break by Lisa Suzanne

Author:Lisa Suzanne [Suzanne, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Books by LS, LLC
Published: 2018-03-11T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN

MACI

Griffin glares at me as he steps back on the bus.

“What?” I ask, my tone coming out much ruder than I intend. But fuck it all, I don’t care.

“Hope your night was worth it.”

“Worth what?”

He tilts his neck to each side then rubs his eye with a knuckle. “The shit I feel like this morning after being forced to sleep in someone else’s bed.”

“Whine a little more,” I say.

“Okay. Bunks suck hard enough, but to force me onto someone else’s bus without even my own pillow? I deserve better after all the shit I put up with.”

His tone is unwarranted, and all he’s doing is making my foul mood worse. “I wasn’t the one who forced you to go.”

“I did it for you, Maci. You told me you were after him, so I thought I was giving you your chance. I thought I was doing something good for you, but you’re even bitchier than normal this morning. Was the sex that bad?”

“Fuck off.” I glare back at him.

“So the sex sucked and it wasn’t even worth my pain?”

I can’t help it when I explode at him. The sex didn’t suck, but it wasn’t what I was hoping for. Instead of drawing me closer to him, I almost think it set us back a few steps. I glance down at the blank sheet of paper I’ve been staring at since Ethan left my bus. “It’s not your business, and if you keep talking to me like this, you can go take your place with the crew.”

He storms past me toward the bunks. I roll my eyes at his dramatics. Maybe I was overly bitchy, but he’ll get over it. Besides, nothing I said wasn’t true. It’s his privilege to share my bus with me, not his right. He’s part of my team—an integral part, to be sure, but still a crewmember nonetheless. Sometimes I just want to be alone, and a tour bus makes for cramped quarters and much easier swipes at the people traveling with me.

I wonder for a split second if the only other person on my bus is Griff because that’s what I willed to be so or if there’s another reason—namely, the fact that I’m not easy to travel with, and my manager decided to take the brunt of whatever I have to give so someone is close enough to babysit. Not a bad idea, probably, but I wish he wasn’t here right now. I wish I had the golden silence I was only blessed with for a few glorious minutes. I wish I could pour out my emotions onto the paper in front of me rather than bottling them back up.

We’re parked for the next eight hours because the law says drivers have to take a break. I glance out my window. Only glass and metal and twenty feet or so separates me from Ethan.

I want to get off this fucking bus, but I don’t want to face Ethan and I don’t want to ask Griffin for help, so I’m sort of stuck at the moment.

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