The Shore by S. E. Brown

Author:S. E. Brown [Brown, S. E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-03-31T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Ryan looked at her phone each time it dinged hoping it was a text from Madison. She refused to read the messages from Cody. She got out of the car and walked to the door. Not sure what she was doing, but knowing she needed someone, she knocked.

A moment later, the light above her turned on and she saw a shirtless Jaxon walking toward her.

Jaxon smiled at the unexpected surprise. But the closer he got to her, the more he could see she had been crying. He opened the door.

“Ryan? What’s wrong?”

Ryan flung herself into his arms. She just wanted someone to hold her. Someone to tell her it would be okay.

“Ryan?” He wrapped his arms around her and squeezed her tight. She cried harder.

“Come on, let’s get you inside.” He shifted himself so he still had an arm around her, her face buried in his chest, and walked them down the hallway to the stairs. He lowered his arm and gently took her hand in his and led her up the stairs to the couch in the living room.

“Hold on one sec, okay? I’m going to get you some water.”

Ryan nodded in response but said nothing.

When Jaxon returned, he saw Ryan had found the tissues and was wiping her face. It looked like she had stopped crying. He sat down next to her.

“Are you okay?” he asked. “What happened?”

Ryan couldn’t look at him. He was being sweet – the guy she used to know, but she shouldn’t be here. “I’m sorry, Jaxon. I shouldn’t have come here.”

Jaxon looked at her with a confused look. “Why? Ryan, I’m here for you. You can always come to me.”

She looked up at him and he gave her a small smile to reinforce his statement.

“Are you hurt?” he asked.

She shook her head no.

“What happened?

Ryan looked down at her hands again and sighed. “I just had a fight with the guy I’m seeing … was seeing … and had nowhere else to go. I tried to get ahold of Madison, but she’s not answering.”

Jaxon didn’t know who Madison was, but at this point, it didn’t seem to matter. “What were you fighting about?”

She really didn’t want to tell Jaxon, but she had just shown up on his doorstep. It wasn’t like she was in a position to not tell him what happened.

“He told me he lost his virginity to my sister.”

“To Paige?” he asked in surprise.

“Yeh.”

“Wow.” He considered that for a minute. He wasn’t sure why this was such a big deal now. Surely the guy didn’t lose his virginity last week. “But Ryan, I’m sure this didn’t happen yesterday…” he trailed off.

Ryan looked at him. She scowled as she thought about the guy she fell in love with and the guy who cheated on her – now she felt like she was talking to the cheater.

“It’s didn’t. It happened years ago.”

“Okay. I’m sure it would suck knowing the person I liked had slept with my brother, but is that it?”

She looked up at him and just shook her head.

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