Forbidden Roommate by Jaymes Holly

Author:Jaymes, Holly
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-03-06T16:00:00+00:00

Stuck in the Middle

Chapter Fifteen: Stuck in the Middle

Willa

I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised that Mason and I would end up quarreling. Some might say it was in our DNA. McLeans and Haynesvilles had been going to war for nearly two centuries. Before that, though, Jeb and Henry had been friends. I remembered when Mason and I had that epiphany on a sunny afternoon while hiding at the waterfall when we were eleven or twelve. They’d not just been friends, but good friends who trusted each other enough to come out west to seek their fortune in a joint venture. Of course, Henry turned out to be untrustworthy, and there started generation after generation of hatred between our families. Not just hatred, but often oppression or retaliation.

When Mason told me about my father calling his father’s loan to be paid right when his father was having a tough time, my heart sank. I suspected it was less about sticking it to a McLean and more about being able to invest the money in something more profitable. The pushing a McLean down was just icing on the cake.

The thing about Tucker, though, that sounded low even for my dad. I couldn’t say if there were rules of engagement in this feud, but I’d have thought the kids would be off-limits. Apparently, I was wrong. With Tucker’s success, I suspect my father was unsuccessful.

Had I known those incidents, maybe I wouldn’t have pushed Mason so hard. Then again, I knew the McLean’s had a history of being picked on and double-crossed by my family. It was insensitive of me not to remember that. Like ten years ago, I was acting like the injured party, when in fact, I didn’t know what injury was really like.

I needed to apologize the next time I saw him, although who knew when that would be. One thing that was clear in our argument was that I shouldn’t stay with him. While I felt terrible for what happened this morning, my parents were my parents. I loved them and would stand by them as they dealt with the house. Yes, they hadn’t been home for ten years. The place was just an investment now. But that didn’t mean it wouldn’t be hard for them to think of all of our memories now gone up in smoke.

I figured Mason was braver than I was, too, or maybe just more willing to deal with hassles from the parents. But I didn’t want to deal with my parents knowing about Mason and me on top of everything else. What purpose would it serve except to put a rift between us? Before long, I’d be back east, and having them get all upset about a short-term fling wasn’t worth it.

At this time, though, I needed to drive out to Eden Meadows Park to meet my parents. Because I wasn’t sure if I’d be back, I packed my bag and tossed it in my car. I didn’t want to leave town

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