The Final Beat (Warrior Creek Book 4) by Nikki Ashton

Author:Nikki Ashton [Ashton, Nikki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hudson Indie Ink
Published: 2024-02-26T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 22

DESTINY

Sitting in my hotel room I looked at my phone and contemplated my choices. I either texted Joey and did something stupid and ended up hating myself, or I sat in my room wishing that I’d done something stupid so that I could hate myself. Alternatively, I could go outside and chain smoke until I calmed down. As it was raining, I decided that was my least favourite option.

Since Ali had helped me to escape from my violent ex, I’d made sure that I didn’t let any man have the power. Without it they couldn’t use it against me, but somehow I’d slipped where Joey was concerned. It was like he’d hypnotised me and with a click of his fingers told me to forget every promise I’d ever made to myself.

Forget that you’re not interested in a relationship, Destiny.

Forget that you want to be in control of your own life, Destiny.

Forgot that we were only ever going to be just sex, Destiny.

When a text buzzed, my heart jumped as I snatched my phone up from the bed. Hope that it was from Joey soon turned to disappointment.

“Fuck off,” I yelled at the marketing message from a restaurant I’d eaten at a couple of times. “Stuff your twenty percent off.”

Any control that I had was slipping away and I hated it. Since Vinny, I’d never once let myself fall for a man. I never felt guilt over the way I treated them. Never worried about my decisions. All that was falling by the wayside, though, because of him, the fucking drummer boy.

We hadn’t spoken since his dad’s funeral and the argument that we’d had in the car. Not for the rest of the journey, nor in his car back to my house—which was then empty as Amber and Ronnie had gone back to their own home to get ready for the tour.

I’d been so damn angry with him. Furious that he’d got me to tell him everything about my relationship with Vinny. Steaming with fury that I’d had to admit the damage the bastard had done to me. How he’d taken my future from me with a few kicks to the stomach.

When the boys supervised their gear being loaded onto the truck, when he and Beau checked the bus over before Terry drove it to the ferry, we didn’t say a word to each other. As we got on the plane, throughout the journey, while I handed out hotel keys and gave instructions on sound checks, I continued to blatantly ignore him. Barely looked at him in fact, yet when I was alone I suddenly wanted to talk to him about it all. Every sordid detail. At least I did until he was face to face with me and I knew then I’d chicken out and just be angry all over again. That was what Joey did to me. He made me confused and mad, and I lost my control.

Maybe it was time I started to listen to my heart instead of my head, because trying to deny my feelings clearly wasn’t working.

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