Under the Lights by Abbi Glines

Author:Abbi Glines
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon Pulse

Hello, Son

CHAPTER 28

GUNNER

My brother’s dark hair and hazel eyes were signature Lawton. He looked like our father. I, on the other hand, did not. Nothing like him. Which made sense, seeing as I didn’t have any of his blood running through my veins. Rhett was sitting in the chair to my left. We were both in high-back brown-leather chairs that sat across from Father’s desk.

Rhett had shown up at the school during last period, surprising me with his visit home. But he said we were meeting with Father at three and he had come to check me out so that neither of us were late. This had thrown me off. We’d never been summoned to the man’s office like this. At least not together. This was weird.

“Did he know you were coming home?” I asked Rhett, who didn’t seem concerned about this meeting.

He nodded. “Yes. He requested I return for this. I told him these were the only few days I had available.”

Had he not questioned him about why we were meeting? “So you just came home because he said to?”

Rhett shifted in his seat, and this time he did seem a little nervous. “Yeah” was his simple response.

Because Rhett was the chosen one, he normally bucked our father at every turn. Coming home like this didn’t seem like something he would willingly do. Unless there was something in it for him.

“He’s late,” I grumbled, hating the wait. I didn’t like to talk to the man, much less sit in his office. A place I was never invited into. The walls were covered in bookshelves, and a painting that probably cost a million dollars hung on the wall over his desk. There were no family photos. Just one picture sat on his desk of him and Rhett last year at a charity event that he’d taken Rhett to but not me. Never me.

“You got something better to do?” Rhett smirked. That expression resembled our father so much that it annoyed me. I didn’t want to dislike my brother because he looked like a man I hated.

The door opened behind us, and Rhett glanced back and appeared pleased that the sorry son of a bitch had walked into the room. I was just happy this would start so it could end. Being in here was uncomfortable.

“Hey, Dad,” Rhett said so casually. They had a relationship that I didn’t have a part in. Never wanted to either.

“Hello, son,” he replied. That was also something that had once bothered me. Him referring to Rhett as son and me as Gunner or boy. Things like that had molded me as a child. Changed me.

Taught me not to trust or love. I had the old man to thank for that one.

“I’m glad you could be here on time, Gunner,” he then said in the condescending tone he reserved for me and those he disliked. Fucker.

I glared at him with the most bored and uninterested expression I could muster but didn’t respond to his comment.

“He was happy to come when I showed up to check him out.

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