Something Beautiful (Beautiful #3) by Jamie McGuire

Author:Jamie McGuire [McGuire, Jamie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jamie McGuire, LLC
Published: 2015-08-17T23:00:00+00:00

Shepley

The Charger’s steering wheel whined as I twisted the wood with both hands. Rain fell from a dark blue sky, assaulting the windshield so loudly that America had to nearly yell over the noise. She was chattering a thousand words a minute, and it was all blurring together. She wasn’t mad but excited. I wasn’t mad. I was feeling unadulterated deep fucking fury. Adrenaline was still pumping through my veins, making my head throb like it was going to explode. That feeling was exactly why I wouldn’t lose my temper. It would leave me feeling sick, out of control, guilty—everything I didn’t want to be.

As the miles passed and we escaped Topeka, America’s voice came into focus.

She reached over to touch my hand. “Baby? Did you hear me? You might want to slow down. The rain is coming down so hard it’s starting to stand on the roads.”

She wasn’t afraid, but I could hear the concern in her voice. My foot lifted half an inch off the gas pedal, and I eased up, releasing the tension from my leg and then the rest of my body.

“Sorry,” I said through my teeth.

America squeezed my hand. “What happened?”

I shrugged. “I lost it.”

“I feel like I’m riding in the car with Travis instead of my boyfriend.”

I breathed out through my nose. “It won’t happen again.”

From the corner of my eye, I saw her face compress.

“Do you still love me?”

Her words were like a punch to the gut, and I coughed once, trying to catch my breath. “What?”

Her eyes glossed over. “Do you still love me? Is it because I said no?”

“You … you want to talk about this now? I mean … of course I love you. You know that, Mare. I can’t believe you just asked me that.”

She wiped an escaped tear from her cheek and looked out the window. The weather outside mirrored the storm in her eyes. “I don’t know what happened.”

My throat tightened, choking off any reply I might have had. Words didn’t come to me. I alternated between staring at her in confusion and watching the road.

“I love you.” She balled her elegant thin fingers into a fist and propped them under her chin, her elbow on the door’s armrest. “I’ve wanted to talk to you about the way things have been between us lately, but I was scared … and … I didn’t know what to say. And—”

“America? Is this a … is this like a good-bye trip?”

She turned to me. “You tell me.”

I didn’t realize my teeth had been clenched until my jaw began to hurt. I tightly closed my eyes and then blinked a few times, trying to concentrate on the road, keeping the Charger between the white and yellow lines. I wanted to pull over to talk, but with the hard rain and limited sight distance, I knew it would be too dangerous. I wouldn’t take the chance with the love of my life in the car—even if she didn’t believe she was at the moment.

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