The Wrong Blaze by Meagan Brandy

Author:Meagan Brandy [Brandy, Meagan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-08-20T18:30:00+00:00

She wants to see me break, right here, right now. At her hands.

I would never. A woman who might have something to do with my dad’s death, who shares the last name of the man who played me, made me fall for him before I even knew it was happening. Never.

The boldness she clearly has will be a problem. Coming up to me like that, making herself known to the daughter of the man she spoke to mere hours before his death.

Hell, who knows? Maybe she had zero to do with it, and she really is the victim. I don’t know. But I have too much going on in my head to stop and consider it.

I wanted nothing more than to hurl myself at her and demand answers she might not have and that the police obviously hadn’t gotten, but I can’t be arrested. Can’t risk losing all I have left by having a mental breakdown where others can see.

I’ll cry tonight, by myself in the shower, not here in front of others who will either pity or earn power over me.

I don’t need pity, and I’d never give them power.

What I want is answers.

I want my dad.

Alec tries to catch my stare through the windshield, but I pretend like I don’t notice, closing my eyes as I drop against the seat.

A few seconds go by, and then Rowan’s door opens. He slides in, gently closing the door behind him.

“Oaks,” Rowan whispers, and I roll my head his way, locking my eyes with his. “I’m gonna take you to get some food. Anything sound good?”

As if I could eat right now.

He’s only trying to help in the way he knows how.

I look back to the road. “Surprise me, Row.”

Rowan ends up running through a Taco Bell drive-through around the corner from his place. When he pulls up at his house, I don’t question it. I follow him inside.

We get comfortable on the couch, neither of us eating more than a few bites of our food, but both soaking in the silence for a little while before he sighs and looks to me.

“I don’t know what to do or say here, Oakley. What do I do?” His gaze drops to the floor before meeting mine again. “Do I ask if you’re okay when I know you’re not? Talk about your dad or ask what the detectives told you, if anything? Do I call and cuss out my brother for … for hurting you like I’m thinking he did? Do I hold you like I used to?” He takes a shuddering breath, shifting to look me in the eye better. “Am I even allowed to hold you anymore?”

“You can do whatever you want, Rowan,” I tell him numbly.

He frowns. He licks his lips and looks away. “Yeah, Oaks, I know. But what is it that you want? Do you want to talk about your dad? Do you want to lie here and cry in my arms? Or do you … do you want …”

“Or do I want Alec?” I finish for him when his words die off.

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