The Six Month Lease (Southern Hearts Club Book 2) by Melanie Munton

Author:Melanie Munton [Munton, Melanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-08-17T18:30:00+00:00

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The rest of the evening far surpassed the standard level of misery I’ve become accustomed to enduring in my mother’s company. Despite the fact that it was hers and Dan’s anniversary party, everything was still about her. Dan might as well have not even been there. And to make matters worse, West didn’t stop touching and doting on me like the sweet boyfriend he once was.

But he never looked me in the eye again after our bathroom scuffle.

Anytime he glanced my way—for appearance sake—he would lock in on my forehead or my cheek. Never my eyes.

And I can’t really blame him.

The car ride home was akin to having your fingernails ripped off. I made the mistake of asking West a simple question at one point, to which he responded by cranking up the music on the radio. After that, I super glued my mouth shut. His hands maintained a white-knuckled grip on the steering wheel, the leather creaking in his vice-like grasp. He even had to visibly calm himself down at one point when the speedometer reached ninety miles an hour on the freeway.

He stomped inside the house when we got home and hasn’t come out of his room since. That was twenty minutes ago. Since then, I’ve been staring up at my bedroom ceiling, vacillating between getting up to apologize to him…and just letting it go. Deciding what I would say if I do go knock on his bedroom door has made me restless with nervous energy. On the flip side, how will I handle the next two and a half months of living with him if I do nothing and he stays furious with me?

The sensible thing to do is nothing.

Letting his anger grow and fester is really the smartest course of action. It would be better for both of us if we felt nothing but ire toward each other. Anger is less confusing than the complexity of emotions we’ve been tripping over since the day we broke up.

I should stay in here.

Don’t move, Harper.

But I can’t let things lie like this.

I can’t stand letting him think that our relationship was nothing more to me than a weapon to hurl at my mother. We may not necessarily be right for each other long-term, but I would never use him that way. Whatever our differences, West doesn’t deserve to be treated like that. Yes, there’s been some combat ever since we broke up. Yes, there’s been some hostility. But things took a bad turn tonight.

Tonight was the first time since the breakup that blood has been shed.

And I just… I can’t have him hate me.

Decision made, I push up from my bed and leave the safe confines of my room. The house is dark and silent as I walk down the hallway. Once I reach his closed door, my hand pauses mid-air as uncertainty creeps in.

What if I only make things worse?

What if I’ve damaged this beyond repair?

Galvanizing the last surviving brave troops inside me, I rap my knuckles against the wood.

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