Blissful Summer: Make You Mine Again\Unraveled by Cheris Hodges

Author:Cheris Hodges
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-08-20T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 2

Her friend—her best friend from high school—was dead?

Ona grabbed a handful of Regan’s fluttery Prada sleeve. “Are you messing with me?”

“No, Ona. Get out your phone and fact-check. Matty died about ten days ago.”

“You and I spoke last Monday. Why didn’t you tell me about him then? He was my best friend from those days.”

“The subject didn’t come up in conversation. Everyone else knew. Guess you just weren’t part of the loop—sorry. Besides, I didn’t know you and Matty were like that. There was gossip about the two of you in high school, but what did I care if he was boffing a Fishtown girl?” Regan jiggled her arm free, tossed a look to the man behind her. “Cole, tell her the depressing details. I want to see what an erotic-themed ship’s definition of a stateroom is.”

Cole Stanwyck, who’d been the class ass with a bad case of grabby hands, removed his sunglasses but didn’t dare prop them on his head and ruin his gel-spiked hair. “Stilts Tracy. Long time.”

Not long enough... “Long time since anyone called me Stilts.”

“I can fix that for you.”

“I didn’t say I missed the nickname. Just making the observation that lately I’ve been around people who don’t feel the need to incessantly make me feel ashamed of my height. What do you know about Matty?”

“He crashed his bush plane in Alaska. It was quick. He didn’t suffer.”

“You’re lying, Cole.” Ona had stopped moving, but when he reached out to urge her along, she jerked. She hadn’t wanted his hands on her in high school, and she didn’t want them on her now. “If you’d kept your sunglasses on, I wouldn’t see the lie in your baby blues.”

“All right, then. The details I heard are this. Matty’s plane was in pieces and so was he. It was up in flames before it blew, so he suffered like a son of a bitch.”

“Oh, God. Matty...”

“I’m sorry he went out that way. But I didn’t like Matty,” Cole said darkly.

Who didn’t like Matty Grillo? He was luminous, considerate, a straight-up smart-ass and one hell of a man.

Cole fell into queue behind her, and his breath on her ear had her body tensing violently—as it had when she was twelve and a Kensington crackhead had mugged her at gunpoint in broad daylight, and when she’d ended up alone with Cole in a music practice room at PAAC senior year. He couldn’t see past the silver spoon up his butt, couldn’t comprehend that white or black, rich or poor, no meant no. A violin upside his head had changed his attitude quick, and they hadn’t seen each other in a decade, but his presence made her feel leerier than she’d suspected it would.

“Why didn’t you like him?” Ona asked, shadowing the person in front of her just to dodge Cole’s closeness.

“Because of you. What you had going on with him. You were wasting your time with him in high school, letting him pop you sophomore year and doing him when you could’ve been with me.

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