Bluewater Bay 06 - Lights, Camera, Cupid!: A Bluewater Bay Valentine's Day Anthology by SE Jakes & Amy Lane & Z.A. Maxfield & Anne Tenino & L.A. Witt

Author:SE Jakes & Amy Lane & Z.A. Maxfield & Anne Tenino & L.A. Witt [Jakes, SE & Lane, Amy & Maxfield, Z.A. & Tenino, Anne & Witt, L.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-02-07T08:00:00+00:00

God, Cary felt so fucking raw and vulnerable. An hour ago—hell, fifteen minutes ago—he’d been able to push all these fears aside.

“I had to, Cary. It wasn’t the best choice, I know.”

“And it wasn’t the only choice,” he shot back.

“No, it wasn’t. But what were we going to do? You got into an amazing school. You were out of here, away from what you hated.”

“You could’ve come with me.”

Dylan shook his head. “It wasn’t that simple.”

“It was.”

“For you,” Dylan insisted, his voice a loud growl. “You always knew what you wanted. You always fucking knew. But I had no goddamned clue, okay? School wasn’t for me. I’d have ended up fucking around, pulling stupid jobs, following you like some loser. I couldn’t do that. I had to make something of myself, to prove to you that I could.”

“I always knew you could,” Cary told him quietly. “I always had faith in you.”

“I wanted to show you it wasn’t misplaced.”

“So you left me for my own good.”

“For both of ours.”

“You know, this all definitely sounds like you, and something you’d do. But something’s missing too, so what aren’t you telling me?”

Dylan reached to rub his shoulder and then his neck, as if he was in pain. He did look tense as hell when he said, “Don’t, Cary.”

Too late. Cary felt a surge of anger pulse through him. “No, Dylan, don’t you try that. Fucking tell me.”

Then he pulled back. Pointed at Dylan. “It was them, wasn’t it? My parents. My father.”

Dylan could only nod.

“Fucking tell me what they did, Dylan.” Cary’s voice was raw.

And Dylan would have to, because Cary’s life had fallen apart three years after that. Although the downward spiral began only three months post-Dylan. Cary had just started school when his parents told him they were filing for bankruptcy.

His school days were numbered, unless he fought for them. And so he had. He’d fought for them the way he should’ve fought for Dylan in the first place. He’d gotten loans and jobs. Cut back on classes, but he’d done it.

And then he’d come back to Bluewater Bay after his father killed himself. His mom was sick then, and it all disintegrated, leaving Cary to fight against the disgrace placed on his family.

Dylan faltered, then admitted, “They told me . . . they tried to give me money to leave you alone. I didn’t take it. But then they showed me the cashed check with my signature on the back.”

“Your dad,” Cary said flatly.

“Yeah. He cashed it, took the money.”

“I would’ve believed you.”

“Maybe. Maybe I didn’t believe in myself enough,” Dylan confessed.

“You always seemed so . . .”

“I know.” He hung his head. “I wasn’t good enough for you. Not then.”

“You always were. You still are.”

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