Wrong For Me by Kendra Little

Author:Kendra Little [Little, Kendra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oz Books

8

I couldn't avoid both Beth and Kate for long. Not if I wanted my bedroom door to remain whole. They knocked so hard I worried they'd punch a hole through the wood. Thankfully Ben remained downstairs, painting, and Gran was blissfully unaware of my dramas with Ryder.

"Oh, sweetie," Beth said upon seeing me. I must have looked a sight with my swollen, red eyes and nose. Crying always made me resemble a victim of severe allergies.

"Bastard," Kate spat.

I didn't have the heart to disagree with her. She was right. Ryder had changed irrevocably. The guy he had been, the guy I fell in love with, was never coming back.

Beth put her arm around me and drew me into a hug. "Tell us what he did."

I couldn't do it. The pain was too raw, my heart too sore. Putting what he'd done into words would make the hurt worse and I told them so.

They exchanged glances, and I felt bad. They worried about me, and I loved them for that. At least there was some news I could give them, something they'd both be happy to hear.

"It's not all grim," I said, taking another tissue from the box beside my bed. "My infatuation with Ryder has gone. Dead. It's time to bury it so that it stays dead."

"What do you mean, 'bury it?'" Kate said, sitting on my other side.

"I mean I'm not waiting for him to fall in love with me anymore. I'm moving on." He'd once told me I had no purpose, and he was right. I thought he'd been wrong, that my purpose was to wait for him so that we could be together eventually. That purpose sucked. It had gotten me a broken heart and too many wasted years. "It's time to do something for me now, something that's going to get me through the next few years of my life. Something I might enjoy."

Kate hugged me. "Good for you. I'm so proud of you, Jane."

Beth threw up her hands. "What is it? Why does Kate know what your new purpose is and I don't?"

"It's the house, Dumbass," Kate said, laughing.

Beth's eyebrows crept up her forehead. "Oh! You're going to turn this place into a B&B like Ben suggested."

"If Gran's okay with it," I said.

They both looked to the door and sighed at the same time. Yeah, I totally understood. Gran would be the sticking point.

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