Irons (Norfolk #1) by Mj Fields

Author:Mj Fields [Fields, MJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Amazon: B00MLSQNH8
Publisher: MJ Fields Books
Published: 2014-08-09T23:00:00+00:00

When it all falls apart

Frankie

You know that feeling you get right before taking the first big dip on a roller coaster ride at the summer county fair? The moment where you regret the choice you made to get on the ride in the first place? The regret and the anxiety? That’s how I felt about what had gone on with Jaxson and me. That’s what I felt as soon as he sat down at that damn table and that’s what I felt when I dared glance up at him and saw the way he looked at me.

Concern, maybe hurt, maybe betrayal. I wasn’t sure and I was trying not to allow myself to care. Not caring about Jaxson Irons was foreign to me. Since I was twelve, he had been included in my evening prayers and nearly every daydream I had was about him.

“Francesca?”

I looked up and everyone was staring at me. “I’m sorry, what was that?”

“Jaxson is going to give you a ride home. He’d like to know where you live, maybe the two of you could connect once in a while?”

“No, I can walk, it’s only—”

“Frankie, don’t be silly,” he said in a playful manner, but nothing in his eyes showed that he was joking.

I looked at my father and he looked taken aback by my reaction.

“Sure,” I placed a smile on my face, the one for show. The one I had invented for my parents’ sakes. Will died and then I put them through hell. I would not do it again.

We all walked out together, Jax gave my parents a hug goodbye and stood back waiting as I did the same.

When they pulled out, I waved and waited until they were out of sight and turned to Jax, “What was this all about?”

“Your father called. I tried to decline,” he took my arm and tried leading me towards the parking lot on the other side of the restaurant. I pulled away. “Look, I didn’t say a damn thing, okay. I came because he insisted.”

“That was nice of you Jax. Why the change of heart after three years?”

He crossed his arms and cocked his head to the side and looked at me. I recognized the look now, it was pity.

“Don’t you look at me like that, Jax.”

“Come on, let’s go.” He started walking.

I couldn’t go with him, couldn’t chance that whoever it was that called me would find out, and I couldn’t be the reason Jax’s life would be anything other than what he wanted it to be.

“I’m going to walk.”

“Fine, I’ll walk you.”

“I’m not a dog, Jax, you can’t walk me.”

“Don’t be difficult, Frankie, you and I have some unfinished business to discuss.”

I must have looked around and didn’t realize it because the next question he asked was, “Are you expecting someone?”

“No.” I looked down and played with my ring, Will’s class ring, the one he received when he graduated from Annapolis, the one I wore to remind me who he would want me to be.

“Frankie, please don’t make me cause a scene.

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