Tiny Island Summer by Rachelle Paige

Author:Rachelle Paige [Paige, Rachelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Amazon: B013EV8210
Publisher: Kindle Press
Published: 2015-09-14T23:00:00+00:00

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Despite his best attempts, Ben couldn’t get his brother’s words out of his mind.

“You need to go over and apologize to her,” John lectured his brother the moment he saw him that morning.

Ben had groaned, walked over to the coffee pot, and tried to fill his favorite mug, only to find it in a sink full of dirty dishes.

“You need to start cleaning up after yourself,” Ben growled back.

“I’m serious,” John continued, more than a little put out by the whole situation. “She didn’t know it was Mom. She didn’t even know our last name. And you got her fired.”

Ben rolled his eyes. “I’m not going to apologize for something that I did when I don’t feel bad about it.”

“Then you’re an idiot,” John told him before walking out the door.

Ben heard the screen door slam shut and turned to wash the dishes and start the coffee. He refused to apologize when he didn’t see how he had been wrong. She’d gone after Mom and had taken advantage of her. More than that, she’d taken advantage of him. He’d invited her out to dinner and she’d turned him down because she’d already gotten everything she needed out of him, hadn’t she? She must have been on her way to Duluth the moment he’d asked. Water splashed out of the sink and onto the front of his shirt. He’d been lost in thought and had let the water run to overflowing. Ben turned off the faucet, stripped off his T-shirt, and threw it across the room.

He needed air.

Ben pushed open the front door and stood on his porch. He froze. Darcy, oblivious to his presence, walked down the street toward her town house, maybe thirty feet away. She hadn’t seen him and seemed to be returning from a coffee run in town. She carried three coffees in a carrier and a brown bag, no doubt filled with pastries. Darcy looked cheerful and he felt his blood boil.

Why did she get to smile and be happy when he was miserable? Shouldn’t she be miserable too? Hadn’t he gotten her fired? She’d wronged him, he told himself again to help prevent him from feeling any guilt in the situation.

Ben stepped off the porch into his driveway and caught her eye. The smile dropped off her face, replaced immediately with a scowl before she looked through him, as if he wasn’t even there. Saved from the trouble of waving hello, Ben, half-naked, set off to get his coffee on the same road Darcy had taken. He’d been awake for most of the night seething with fury at her and himself and his mother and the situation.

He’d toyed with the idea of calling Caitlyn. Loneliness had often led him to make stupid decisions. But he’d only gotten her to stop calling him a few days before. No matter how much easy fun she promised, it came at a steep price—one he was not willing to pay.

It’s not as if she’s a distraction from Darcy, Ben reminded himself.

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