The Struggle (The Things We Can't Change Book 2) by Kassandra Kush

Author:Kassandra Kush [Kush, Kassandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: YA Romance
Publisher: KushBooks
Published: 2013-08-23T22:00:00+00:00

Ezekiel

34

It’s been two weeks since I started working at the Parkers, and my life has settled into a strange routine. Wake up, go to the Parkers where I work without talking to anyone. Then it’s home to laze with Dom and Koby or to work at the club. Cameron hasn’t bothered me again, thankfully, but I know it’s just a matter of time. The person who won’t leave me alone now is Tessa. She’s beginning to annoy me, and I’m just trying to hold out until she leaves for school in the fall. I’ve been avoiding her because she’s close with Cameron, since they’re neighbors, and I don’t want to be tempted or sucked into anything.

She’s working the wedding tonight, as am I, and every time I see her, she’s staring at me. Girls. Never able to just have a fling, no matter how they promise they don’t or won’t get attached.

I can see Koby across the room and realize he’s serving the table where Jenny Hunt is seated, and they are careful never to lock gazes. I frown when I realize I’ve been too wrapped up in my own problems to ask if anything ever happened between the two of them. From what I’m seeing now, something did, but it doesn’t seem to have ended well.

My gaze returns to my own tables, because predictably, the Parkers are seated in my section. What a surprise, with my usually good luck. Not. Evie actually came tonight, even though she seems to avoid the club as much as possible lately. This is her first event since the police banquet, and I don’t really blame her.

There are always whispers following her, and especially when the two of us are here at the same time. In fact, I realize that tonight we’re attracting more looks and shared whispers than usual. I only figure out the reason after dinner, once everyone is milling around or on the dance floor, drinking and talking as the real celebration begins.

I can see Hunter Parker, or actually Hunter Grey, since he never took the name, slinking through the crowd. Every person he stops to talk to eventually turns and scans the room to stare at Evie and then me. Pig. Just as everything is beginning to calm down, he comes in to fan the flames. Probably spreading the word that I’m spending the summer working for the Parkers and allowing people to start gossiping about what that entails.

I’m not sure what he has against Evie or me, but I suspect a large portion of it is just boredom. Even with limitless funds at their disposal, rich kids never know what to do with their free time. His behavior to Evie, however, is downright nasty, something only proved beyond reasonable doubt as the night unfolds.

I keep my eyes on Hunter as I clear tables of dirty glasses and then dessert plates and forks after the cake is cut. Sure enough, he finally walks toward Evie with his posse, the same guys who taunted me about yard work.

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