#BURN: Fever Falls, Book 2 by McCormack Devon

Author:McCormack, Devon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-02-01T16:00:00+00:00

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Dax

“I’m sorry, Jace.”

I was struggling to even think straight since I saw the news on my cell. I wasn’t able to focus on figuring out what was happening at the moment when I kept going back to being that ten-year-old kid, lost and confused about all that was happening in my life.

“I know this can’t be making much sense to you, and I’m not doing much in the way of helping with that,” I admitted.

“Yeah, you’re definitely not doing that.”

“It’s just…what to you and Hacksmore is cute Lil’ Donnie Gibson was part of a long series of events in my past that I like to pretend never happened.”

Jace narrowed his eyes as though I’d lost my mind. “Okay, I may not be the smartest guy in the world, but I managed to pick up on that much already.”

Fair enough.

“A lot of things were going on in my head when I saw those pics. It would be one thing for anyone to have to see photos of themselves making out plastered across the Internet. Anyone would have the right to be upset. But it was another to see you outed without your consent and then me being outed for something I’ve spent my life divorcing myself from. Then I was thinking about Hacksmore and that if he cut out of the deal, you wouldn’t be able to give any of that money to the center like you wanted.”

Jace rested his hand on my leg. “It sounds like the money is staying right where it is, so why don’t you talk to me about this Donnie Gibson stuff and why it’s fucked with you like this.”

I could tell he wanted to support me when I was feeling wrecked by my past catching up with me. I was used to compartmentalizing it, acting like it was another life away, but there it was, flashing right in front of me the way cameras once had in that period of my childhood when I attended premieres and award ceremonies with my mom.

Considering what had already been made public, it was bound to come out, so I figured now was the time to be straight with Jace.

“I wish I could say it was a remarkable story, but it’s a cliché in Tinseltown. Mom grew up on a ranch in Minnesota. She had big dreams, like so many who hurry off to Hollywood only to be met with disappointment. But she got some lucky breaks, and the fact that she even had a hit in the nineties was somewhat of a miracle for her. It was like she’d died and gone to heaven. She was so big, she’d special-guest on all the popular series of her time and hit the talk-show circuit. She was spoiled rotten by producers and dated some sexy male stars. Like most people who get a break, she thought it was a done deal. She’d arrived, but she didn’t have the foresight to realize that these tides come and go so quickly. For her, even quicker than some.

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