Wanting Forever (A Nelson Island Novel) by Gardin Diana

Author:Gardin, Diana [Gardin, Diana]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2014-10-06T17:00:00+00:00

Fourteen

Sam wished like hell he’d let his boss give him Monday off.

He sat at Gregory’s glossy mahogany desk in the office, limply typing the travel itinerary he’d been asked to complete while Gregory was off working in corporate headquarters this morning.

Sam felt like he’d been hit by a Mack truck, then run over twice by a train. He’d gotten drunker than he’d ever been on Saturday night, and then he’d spent Sunday sitting on the beach with Reed, Blaze, Tate, and Tamara. Aston was noticeably absent, and he knew it was because he’d asked her to leave him at the bar the previous night. He had mixed feelings about her empty spot, but he eventually decided it was for the best. He’d become closer to her than he’d ever expected to in his time on the island. He considered her a friend, and the way she made him feel physically was dangerous. After what had happened with Ever and Hunter, the intimacy he felt growing with Aston was something he couldn’t allow to take over. Anything that emotional had the power to hurt, and giving that power away again just wasn’t an option he could live with.

Sunday evening, Hunter had called the landline in the tack house several times. He knew it was Hunter because everyone here had his new cell phone number. He also knew that Ever was forcing Hunter to keep calling. Hunter would have known that Sam wasn’t ready to talk to them.

Sam didn’t know if he’d ever be ready to talk to them again. He’d never felt so turned upside down by emotions. His whole life, he’d had one purpose. Protect Ever. From her father, and then from the consequences of killing him.

When that purpose had been taken away, Sam wasn’t sure what he was supposed to do now. So he was just living hour by hour.

He looked up when he heard the soft knock on the office doors and they creaked open.

“Tamara,” he said in surprise. “Hey. What are you doing here?”

“I’m here to see you,” she answered, her dry smile strangely comforting. “I wanted to check on you. You hit it pretty hard this weekend. Not that anyone can blame you. Feeling okay today?”

Sam leaned back in the large leather chair and ran a hand over the recent scruff on his chin. “Do you mean physically or mentally?”

“Both.”

“I feel like shit,” he admitted.

Tamara shook her head sympathetically. “Then why are you working?”

“It’s a workday.” Sam shrugged. “The days of the week don’t stop because I got my heart broken.” He squinted, rubbing his forehead. “Or because I still have a hangover.”

Tamara knit her eyebrows together and frowned. Sam assumed she didn’t understand anything about coming to work when you didn’t exactly feel your best, because Tamara and Tate had never worked a day in their lives. They had gone straight from high school to college, and their parents never required them to work for spending money. They came from a wealthy family, just like everyone else Sam had met in Nelson Island.

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