[Bailey Brothers 04] • Rushing In by Kingsley Claire

Author:Kingsley, Claire [Kingsley, Claire]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Adult
Amazon: B08NTX5JKZ
Goodreads: 56636018
Publisher: Always Have, LLC
Published: 2020-11-18T00:00:00+00:00

23

Skylar

Gazing out the window of the Steaming Mug, I wrapped my hands around my coffee cup, enjoying the warmth that seeped into my skin. The sky outside was pale blue, a hue that hinted at the chill in the fall air, and the mountainsides had gone from green to a patchwork of reds, oranges, and golds.

Little pumpkins decorated the tables in the coffee shop. I wondered what Halloween in Tilikum was like. It was my favorite holiday. Something about it being creepy but still safe appealed to me.

Gavin had asked me to meet him here, but I’d come a little early. My head was still a mess after seeing Cullen yesterday. He was such a jerk. How could he have just dropped the ball on that foreign rights contract? The least he could have done was tell me he wasn’t going to see it through. And what was with showing up at my dad’s house like that, just to get a signature? He’d said they had rented a cabin, which of course meant he’d been enjoying a romantic weekend getaway with stupid Pepper Sinclair. Apparently he’d wanted to rub that in my face, the asshole.

I wasn’t just upset because I’d been through a breakup, or because he’d tossed me aside like I’d never meant anything to him, personally or professionally. I was upset at myself for ever thinking he could be the one. How had I not seen who he really was? His behavior since he’d dumped me seemed so shockingly horrible, but then again, was it really so surprising?

Looking back, what I’d taken for seriousness and stoicism were mostly him being a jerk. He’d belittled me for being overly sensitive, dismissing my anxiety as an annoying weakness. Even something I was making up. He’d called me dramatic and unreasonable. Told me to just get over it.

I knew I was an anxious, and often hypersensitive person. I did my best to manage the way my anxiety made me feel so it didn’t hold me back too much. Was it really so bad if background noises sometimes bothered me, or I got nervous around people I didn’t know? Was I really that high maintenance?

Cullen had thought so. He’d thought I was so fragile, he’d cheated on me for months rather than tell me the truth.

I let out a long breath. Like my mom had said, at least I hadn’t married him. That would have been a disaster.

It made me wonder if Mom saw her marriage to Dad as a disaster. It was hard to say. I wasn’t even sure what had actually happened between them all those years ago.

Last night, I’d escaped into the comfort of one of my favorite books. I’d read it several times over the years, and reading it again was like visiting an old friend. Comfortable and relaxing. Because I knew what would happen, I didn’t feel any stress as I read. It had felt good to shut out the world for a little while and live in another one—a world where I knew how the story ended.

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