Not Quite Broken: A Callaghan Family & Friends Romance by Abbie Zanders

Author:Abbie Zanders [Zanders, Abbie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Abbie Zanders
Published: 2018-11-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

Barely thirty minutes after she’d closed the door on Brian, Tori knew she couldn’t spend the rest of the long holiday weekend alone in her apartment with nothing to do but think. Think, wonder, debate, and agonize. She needed to get out. She needed to do something to take her mind off the ache in her chest.

She immediately ruled out anything in or around Pine Ridge. There were too many reminders of things she and Brian had done together. Places they had gone, or driven by, or that he’d pointed out, usually with some small story or tidbit to share.

Fortunately, she had done some research prior to her visit to Jake’s in the hopes that she could convince Brian to take one more road trip with her. She’d hoped that it would give them some time to talk. She could apologize and reassure him that she wasn’t looking for promises he wasn’t willing to make. That she understood an intimate relationship, even a ‘friends with benefits’ arrangement, was off the table, but perhaps there was a possibility of going back to being just friends who hung out and did things together.

Apparently, there was not.

She wasn’t surprised, not really. It had been wishful thinking on her part. Her inner voice had been trying to get her to see the truth for weeks, but she hadn’t wanted to listen. What if she was wrong? she’d asked herself. What if he just needed time to accept the fact that there was something there? Brian was too good a man to walk away from because she had misunderstood or misinterpreted the situation.

Well, there was no misunderstanding the fact that he’d lied to his sister about inviting her to some end of the summer celebration. No misinterpreting that Brian no longer wanted to continue to see her, even as a friend. Or, as he’d come right out and said - that having her around made things awkward for everyone else, too.

She threw a few things into an overnight bag and grabbed her keys. Sleep wasn’t coming anytime soon, so instead of waiting until morning, she decided to hit the road. If her calculations were correct, she’d be watching the sun rise over the Pennsylvania Grand Canyon in a couple hours.

She locked up her apartment and climbed into her Jeep. She made a quick stop at a local Wawa for gas, coffee, and snacks, then pulled up an app on her phone and typed in her destination. Soon she was headed northwest, leaving Pine Ridge behind.

The GPS app took her along some narrow mountain roads, the route probably calculated based on distance rather than travel time. During the day, she wouldn’t have minded; she’d traveled enough with Brian to know the views were incredible. In the middle of the night, however, without the benefit of daylight or even the headlights of other vehicles, the drive wasn’t nearly as pleasant. The absolute darkness was almost suffocating, swallowing her high beams and forcing her to keep her speed well under the posted limit.

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