Playing with Fire (Portwood Brothers #3) by Emily Robertson

Author:Emily Robertson [Robertson, Emily]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-03-22T04:00:00+00:00

Going through an exercise on clearing and securing had been long and hard, but they’d added a role-playing exercise that had lasted for several hours where their team was in charge of an entire city block. It’d been grueling and hard, just like every day before this one. He’d just crashed into bed when his phone rang. He’d check to see who it was and let it go to voicemail. Payton had been keeping tabs on him, and if he really wanted advice, it’d be hers he’d listen to. It wasn’t advice he wanted. She didn’t understand the situation, and he couldn’t take talking to her tonight.

O’Malley was finishing up his nightly phone call with Candi, and when it ended with an “I love you,” everyone busted up laughing.

“She has you whipped bad,” Murphy laughed hard holding his sides.

“No, she doesn't.”

That made Murphy laugh harder, “Just because you don’t care, doesn’t change it.”

“Well…I’m not the only one,” O’Malley stated grasping at anything to get the attention off him.

“You see me on my phone?” Jackson muttered not amused at being drug into the conversation.

“Hey, yeah, why is that, Portwood?” Murphy asked. “I thought you and Red were pretty hot and heavy.”

“Em and I are in the middle of a standoff.”

“Standoff?” O’Malley asked. “What kind of standoff?”

“Forget it,” Jackson told them as he crawled on his bunk and zipped up his sleeping bag. The more time that passed, the less hurt he became about the situation and the more he was just downright pissed off. He couldn’t figure the whole thing out. There was something, and whatever it was, she wouldn’t trust him enough to work through it with him. She had to hold on to it herself. Maybe it was something they could never overcome, but that just made him angrier. Was there anything that he wouldn’t be able to overlook? He didn’t think there was. He was a pretty open-minded guy.

Deciding to finally let her have it, Jackson picked up his phone to do just that. He typed out a long text, but at the last second, decided not to send it. Instead, he sent off several to Josh hoping that by talking to him, he’d finally calm down. He had asked Josh if he knew what was going on, or if she was doing okay, but all Josh knew was that she was in Chicago.

Josh: Just take one for the team and call her already.

Jackson: She’s the one who said she needed space.

Josh: You and I both know that sometimes women don’t really mean what they say.

Jackson: I can’t cave.

Josh: Take some advice from your older brother. Sometimes women don’t always think before they talk. Em’s just as stubborn as you. You need to decide what’s more important, being with her or winning some stupid challenge.

Jackson: I’ll sleep on it.

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