Lucas - A Preston Brothers Novel (Book 1): A More Than Series Spin-off by Jay McLean

Author:Jay McLean [McLean, Jay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jay McLean
Published: 2016-10-31T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

LUCAS

School starts again, new year, new semester, new hope.

Cooper’s back at UNC, his penalty for fornicating with underage girls now over. Small price to pay for such huge fuck-ups but that’s what money means to the Kennedys. A tool, a simple way to navigate through life in the hopes of sheltering members of their family from the harsh, bright lights of reality.

I watch from a distance as Laney steps out of her car in baggy sweatpants and an even baggier sweatshirt, and I wonder if she hasn’t managed to go home and find clothes that actually fit her or if her boyfriend has “made” her start dressing in his clothes to warn off any threats, aka me.

We hadn’t spoken since her phone call New Year’s Eve, and I didn’t even think to try. I’m blocked, from her phone and from her life, and maybe it’s like the night she came to visit me on her eighteenth birthday and we talked about our first Non-Date. I question whether we see things differently. If we always have. Last year, I dated a girl—Bethany—who made an off-handed joke about Laney being a loner because she spent her free period on her own just outside the library, knitting. I ended the relationship the next day, and when Laney asked about the breakup, I told her Bethany had bad breath and kissing her was like licking the inside of a trash can. I knew I could lie and be as crass as I wanted because I knew Laney would never repeat what I said to anyone. She’s always been a key holder to all my secrets. But now she’s dating a guy who treats me and our friendship like shit, and she makes excuses for him. “It’s not like that, Luke.” And when I asked her to convince me otherwise, she couldn’t even come up with a decent lie. And then she texted me, almost an entire hour later, with the most cryptic fucking lie of all. Bullshit, I’m the center of her fucking universe. And bullshit she put me on a pedestal, because if that’s fucking true then to her, Cooper is up in the clouds.

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