The Stars Burn Bright by Lynda Tomalin

Author:Lynda Tomalin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: GlitterInk Press Ltd

Chapter Twenty-Nine

ESSIE

I need to get out of here. I need to get out before Jax and Annie come back, or potentially worse, Jax comes back alone and wants to talk about what happened.

I’m not sure that’s something I ever want to talk about or acknowledge even happened. Not anymore.

Right before I opened the door and that beautiful girl was standing there asking for Jax, it’s all I wanted to do.

I wanted to talk to him about it, ask him what it meant, perhaps do it again. I was pretty sure he wanted to, with the way his fingers laced through my hair as he said we needed to talk about it.

Right before Annie interrupted us.

Right before the reality of our situation hit me in the face. There is no way anything can happen between Jax and me. From his glamorous ex-girlfriend (who by now might not be an ex anymore), to the fact that he’s my brother’s best friend.

There is no conceivable way it can work, and if we try I’m going to lose someone I suddenly care about way too much.

I wash the dishes as quickly as possible, stacking them to dry themselves. I wipe benches and finish putting away the ingredients. I pull the brownie from the oven when the timer beeps, dumping it on the cooling rack I already had on the counter.

Then I bail. I get in my car and drive. I’m not surprised that I end up at the beach, sitting on the same patch of sand where Jax and I sat together yesterday.

Today it’s me crying, which is something I don’t fully understand, but huge tears roll down my cheeks in unstoppable waves regardless.

I can’t even figure out if I’m upset because I kissed Jax, or because Annie is gorgeous, or because he even entertained the thought of talking to her and didn’t throw her out of the house on sight.

Maybe I’m crying because I saw the look on his face when his eyes landed on her. Shock, but also this sense of longing, like he’s been waiting for her to come back to him.

The way he spoke about her yesterday makes me think he has been waiting for her. Maybe he’s been trying all along to reunite with her, trying to convince her to choose him, and his breakup with her was a spur of the moment thing he’s regretted ever since.

Maybe tears are streaming down my cheeks because kissing him in the first place was an exceptionally bad idea, yet it was also one of the greatest moments of my life.

My skin still burns with every place he’s touched me. I can feel his hands tangling in my hair, the way he pressed hot kisses against my neck, breathing me in.

I wonder how long he’s wanted to do it.

Is it since the night of Melissa’s party, when he told me he wouldn’t put his hands on me unless he was certain I wanted it?

When he said that to me, I never thought the day would come when I’d actually want him to touch me, let alone like that.

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