The Fall of a God : An Enemies to Lovers High School Romance (The Boys of Clermont Bay Book 2) by Holly Renee

Author:Holly Renee [Renee , Holly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-06-09T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Josie

I couldn’t stop my leg from shaking beneath the table.

I just wanted to get up and leave this damn table and go somewhere.

Anywhere, really.

I wanted to go straight over to Beck and take him up on his offer to spin me around the dance floor, but I knew my father would be furious.

That wasn’t specifically in his rules for today, but staying away from Beck was in his everyday rules.

Rules that I freaking hated but needed to listen to.

Because whether I liked it or not, my father was the key to my future, and I knew that I would have nothing if I didn’t listen to him. It didn’t matter that he was my dad. He was a businessman through and through, and he would hold up to what he said.

He would rip my mother’s house and the small amount of money she left me away without a second thought. It wouldn’t hurt him at all, but it would kill me.

"Would you like to dance?" My father held his hand out to Amelia who gladly accepted it with a genuine smile on her face. She had been far too excited about this event, and when I shot down the light yellow dress she had first picked out for me, I had actually felt a little guilty by the way her face fell.

I knew that it was unfair to be cruel to her just because I was starting to hate the two people that she loved most. Amelia had done nothing to me, but I still hated the way she looked at my father like he hung the moon. Like he hadn’t abandoned his first wife and kid before he chose her.

But I had still softened myself as I told her the kind of dress I liked. She had beamed at me like it was our first true bonding experience, and I may have even enjoyed it a bit once I tried to let go of how I felt about her with my dad. She brought out the red dress, and I knew that it was the one.

I loved it immediately, and she had agreed once I tried it on. I tried to not think about Lucas or my dad or my mom as I let her zip up the back of my dress and push my hair over my shoulder.

Amelia had almost nothing in common with my mother, but I knew that fact didn’t make her evil.

The two of them moved from the table and onto the dance floor, and I couldn’t stop my gaze from immediately going to Beck. He was laughing with his sister and his friends, and every part of me wanted to go over there and be a part of it.

I wanted to see this Beck. So carefree and fun.

Not the Beck who felt like he was constantly for show.

"Stop staring over there. You look desperate." Lucas snapped from beside me, and I quickly pulled my attention away from Beck to look at him.

I didn’t say a word as I stared.

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