Stay with Me More of Me by Samantha Chase

Author:Samantha Chase
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2015-03-03T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Mac was miserable. It was a Sunday, and he was at the office when he should have been with his family saying good-bye to Gina. What did it say about him that he blatantly blew her off in favor of work after all they had shared? Hell, take the physical part of their relationship out of the equation, and she was still a dear friend of the family.

He despised himself right now.

There didn’t need to be anyone there to tell him he was a coward because he already knew it. Gina had been right when she had told him off. Perfect Mackenzie who likes everything neat, tidy, and orderly. Great; look where that had gotten him. Sure, everything around him certainly was neat and tidy; hell, he was even wearing dress slacks and a button-down shirt when it was a Sunday and no one was in the office! For years, all of this had made him happy. At least he thought he had been happy.

But he wasn’t happy.

Not one damn bit.

Leaning back in his chair with his hands folded behind his head, Mac thought about the things that did make him happy.

A gypsy with wide, expressive green eyes.

A petite and curvy woman who danced to the Jackson Five and sang into wooden spoons.

An artist who painted with abandon while wearing cowboy hats.

A woman who loved him, who he didn’t deserve.

Running a weary hand over his face, he reached for his phone. It was almost nine o’clock on Sunday night, and he was sure everyone would have left his parents’ house by now. His first thought was to call Lucas, but with a baby in the house, Mac was afraid he’d wake her up. He pressed Jason’s name on his phone and waited.

“You missed one hell of a barbecue,” Jason said by way of greeting. “Don’t ever let Lucas offer to grill hamburgers and hot dogs; apparently there is a right way and a wrong way to grill them, and he got it all wrong.”

“Sorry I missed it,” Mac said even though he wasn’t. “Do you have time to talk?”

“Yeah, sure,” Jason said and then whispered something to Maggie. “What’s up?”

“I messed up.”

“No kidding.”

“What am I supposed to do? Gina’s ticked off at me; she probably wouldn’t answer the phone if I called her. I blew off the barbecue, so you know Mom and Dad are going to get on me for that one on top of everything else.”

“I bought a house today,” Jason said, interrupting Mac’s rant.

“Excuse me?”

“A house. Today. Maggie and I bought a house today.”

Mac pinched the bridge of his nose and counted to ten. “What exactly does this have to do with anything I was saying?”

“I’m not sure. I’m just stoked about the whole thing and thought you might need a distraction from all of the ranting and kicking yourself.”

“I’m not kicking myself,” Mac grumbled. “Much.”

Jason laughed. “Bro, you are totally kicking yourself right now and you totally should. You messed up in a big way and then, after you did all that, you heaped more on top of it.

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