Gone Missing by Jami Davenport

Author:Jami Davenport
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cedrona Enterprises

Chapter 17—Fumbled Return

After a few rounds of poker, in which Lavender lost her shirt, figuratively speaking only, she left the boisterous, drunken group of jocks and escaped to the privacy of her little home. Tyler walked her to the door, still pissy and behaving like a cave man, and incredibly sober. He’d had the gall to demand she leave her door unlocked. She’d half a mind to latch every deadbolt in the place, but in the end lust won out. Sex with a hot and angry Tyler appealed to her way more than it should. He’d become her chocolate-dipped-strawberry craving, her weakness, her secret yearning.

After unlocking the back door, she sat down on her bed in her lonely little room. At first the silence had welcomed her, now minutes later it smothered. She missed the rowdy noise of Tyler’s team.

Tyler. What the heck was she going to do about Tyler?

Tyler, the self-proclaimed asshole who wore his bad attitude like a merit badge. For almost two months she’d fooled herself into believing she was a much better person than the arrogant, entitled jock could ever dream of being. Yet, Coug attached himself to Tyler as if it was his cat-given right. The Brothers embraced him as one of their own, whether he liked it or not. Tyler’s teammates cared enough to travel to the island to spend some time with him. Tyler might pretend they were pains in his ass, but she knew better. He liked having them there. Well, except for Zach. He hated Zach, but that was another story.

She’d crashed his jock party tonight to pay him back for bringing up her father yet again. Unfortunately, her strategy turned inside out. Sure, she’d ruffled Tyler’s feathers by flirting with Zach.

Unfortunately, all those jocks sitting around reminded her of her younger years. In her father’s high school coaching days, his team filled their house. Guys came and went at all times, day and night. Her father’s door had always been open. As a result, he’d given so much to the team, he’d left very little for his family.

Even so, Lavender had been daddy’s little girl, a star female athlete sure to get scholarships for softball or volleyball. Brian Gerloch had doted on his princess until the day he packed his suitcase and walked out of her life forever when she was fifteen. She locked herself in her bedroom all weekend and cried, completely inconsolable. At first she blamed her mother for nagging so much she drove him away then she saw the light and put the blame on her father. She never picked up another ball and never went to college on a scholarship or otherwise. In fact, for the remainder of high school, she drowned her disappointment in alcohol and partying. He grades sucked. She struggled for a year at college and dropped out.

Always drawn to senior citizens because of a wonderful set of now-deceased grandparents, she worked in various nursing homes and swore she’d find a way to better their lives.

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