This Point Forward by Katrina Abbott

Author:Katrina Abbott [Abbott, Katrina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: young adult contemporary romance, romantic, love kissing making out, elite rich boarding school, sexy teen boy romantic, funny humor
Publisher: Over The Cliff Publishing
Published: 2014-10-23T04:00:00+00:00

Why I Ran Away. Again.

Danny led me down a hallway, walking quickly, making me struggle to keep up. My heart pounded, what blood I had left after donating rushing loudly through my ears. He pushed open the door to one of the small counseling rooms and waved me in ahead of him.

I was suddenly, irrationally glad there was a glass window in the door. I didn’t really think he was going to hurt me or anything, but...

“What do you want from me, princess?” he asked as the door closed behind him with a loud ka-chunk.

So much for small talk.

I swallowed hard, the sound amplified in the crackling silence between us. “Uh...”

“Are you following me?”

“No,” I said quickly, shaking my head vehemently. “I didn’t know you were here. I came to give blood. We come as often as we can. Donating blood is important.” I cringed at my own lameness. “Donating blood is important;” God, Emmie, you’re such a dork.

He crossed his arms, his biceps bulging through his shirt. Luckily, I was too nervous to get distracted.

“You had no idea I volunteer here,” he said. Not a question as much as an accusation.

“No,” I said again. It was the truth and it’s not like he’d asked me if I’d come into town to stalk him at his work. Thankfully.

“So tell me what you want with me, Emmeline Somerville.”

My heart lurched when he said my name so pointedly, making my brain sort of stall out to where all I could do was stutter, “I...I...” Which is crazy, because I never stutter. I was the 8th grade speech class champion. I’ve done huge assemblies in front of the whole Rosewood student and faculty population. I had spoken to presidents and celebrities with poise and not even a twinge of nerves, but this one guy had my insides tied in knots so bad, I barely knew my own name.

Obviously impatient when I wasn’t able to produce any coherent words, he tried something else: “Why did you call my work?”

Right. That’s how he knew my full name. He knew I’d called A1 Windows with a ridiculous story about the wallet to try to get his last name.

I am a horrible person, was all I could think in that moment. I sure couldn’t come up with a non-ridiculously humiliating reason why I was stalking him.

“Well?” he asked when all I could do was sputter and stare at him, my brain whirling, but nothing connecting into speech.

So I did what any girl in my situation would do when faced by a demanding, sexy and at the same time, really scary guy who may or may not have killed his family.

I burst into tears.

~ ♥ ~

I hated that I was crying. More than anything in the world.

Despite being the girl who almost always gets what she wants and works hard to make that happen, I’d never been the type of girl to use tears to get anything. And I sure wasn’t about to start now. Especially with this guy.

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