Trapped by Savage Shay

Author:Savage, Shay [Savage, Shay]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Caged, Book Two
Publisher: Shay Savage, LLC
Published: 2015-08-03T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10—Savor the Moment

Tria huffed.

“That was…interesting,” Tria said.

“Yeah, I’m sorry.” I sat back in my chair and sighed. “Amanda and I have never completely gotten along. I thought she was a golddigger from day one, and I still think she is. Dad warned me off of chicks like that from the time I stopped thinking girls had cooties. Ryan didn’t grow up with money, and I don’t think Michael ever taught him to look for the signs.”

I took her hand and moved her back toward her chair before I sat down again.

“So…you know Amanda, huh?” I said as Tria relaxed back into her seat and got herself back together.

“I wouldn’t say that,” she replied. “I mean, we’re talking about fifteen years ago, for starters. We were kids.”

“She was the older one, right?” I asked, remembering some of the details of Tria’s time at the group home. “The one you thought wouldn’t get adopted before you.”

Tria nodded. With the tines of the fork, she poked at the frosting from the cake and then set it off to the side without taking another bite. We sat in silence for a couple more minutes until the server dropped off the bill.

“Can I get you anything else?” she asked with a smile.

I declined, and Tria didn’t seem to have anything to add. I took the last gulp of my drink and played around with the straw for a minute.

“Ready to go?” I asked quietly.

“Yeah,” she said.

I paid the bill and took her hand as we walked back to the car.

The mood had changed, and I wasn’t happy about it at all. Tria seemed lost in her own thoughts, and I was just dreading the whole wedding thing now. If I knew Mandi at all, it was going to be ridiculous and swimming with all the high society this city could muster. I also didn’t have the slightest idea what Tria would find to wear, but I wasn’t going to ask and add to the anxiety.

Then I thought of the perfect idea to change the tone and quickly took the next exit going back up north.

“Where are we going?” Tria asked.

“I thought we’d go check out the river.”

I drove to the North Side the long way, making sure I kept my distance from anywhere I might have been seen or even recognized. As I moved farther away from town, the only people around the area were my family and people employed by them. Maybe the employees wouldn’t have recognized me anyway, but the beat-up car in the area would arouse suspicion.

Turning onto a dirt road, I hoped Yolanda’s Civic was up for the challenge. We bounced and bumped for a half mile, and the sky was starting to darken as I parked at the end of the road in a gravel lot.

“This way,” I said. I took Tria’s hand as she got out of the car and led her down the familiar path to the water. Part way there, another path headed off toward the east, and I couldn’t help but glance in that direction as we continued on.

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