Only Rivals by Charity Ferrell

Author:Charity Ferrell [Ferrell, Charity]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781952496110
Publisher: Charity Ferrell LLC

This isn’t a road trip.

This is a hell trip.

The clouds are dark, and I’m waiting for the approaching downpour.

The leather seats are torn and squeak every time I move.

Amelia has hardly muttered a word to me since I switched spots with her, plugged the address into the GPS, and pulled out of the parking lot.

We’re three hours into the drive, and we have done everything to prevent conversation between us. To do that, we’ve been having conversations with everyone else.

She called her mom, and when they got off the phone, I called mine.

Then, she called Ava.

I called my dad.

She called her dad.

Then, I called Toby to check on the brewery.

I’m waiting for her to call her damn mailman next.

“Do you ever think we were too happy?” Amelia asks.

The fuck kind of question is that?

I almost wish she had called her mailman now.

“Who wonders if they’re too happy?” I stare straight ahead through the windshield and clench my hands tight around the steering wheel. “I don’t know about you, but I haven’t been happy in a minute, Amelia.”

I’m hot and cold with her. If I find the perfect opportunity to push her away, I use it as a weapon. But after, I want to bring her back and nurse those wounds I created. It’s just like when we were young. We’d torment the fuck out of each other but then make amends minutes later. She’d trip me, I’d get a bloody nose, so she’d get a napkin to help clean it up. I’d push her in the pool, she’d get pissed, but I’d make sure she had a fresh towel when she got out.

I don’t take my eyes off the road. “Why are you asking me this?”

“I wonder if we were too happy and that made Chris unhappy.”

“News flash, Amelia: Chris was happy until you broke up with him.”

“I never broke up with him!” she shrieks. “I said we should wait to get married. That didn’t mean it’d never happen.”

“He sure thought that was what it meant.”

“You don’t know everything about my and Christopher’s relationship, Jaxson, so shut your damn mouth.”

“I’m not the one spewing out were we too happy bullshit.” I grind my teeth, my jaw hurting. “Why would you even consider that?”

“Think about it.” Her voice turns serious. “We came from good homes. Christopher didn’t. His home was dysfunctional, and he was miserable, growing up.”

“Yes, but then he moved in with me, and he was no longer in a toxic environment.”

Sprinkles start tapping on the windshield, and I turn the wipers on.

“You can’t run from your past,” she states matter-of-factly, as if she were suddenly a professional on the topic.

“What are you trying to say? That Chris is gone because we came from good homes?” I stare at her out of the corner of my eye, keeping my attention on both her and the road as the rain worsens.

I thought we were past this.

Past this blame game.

Never did I ever throw my life’s luxuries into Chris’s face. I did everything in my power to make him comfortable and give him a better life.

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