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Chapter 20
Kalum
The GT-R is on the jumbotron in New York. People are in awe as the most gorgeous woman is behind the wheel of the impressive car as it takes the track by storm, roaring with fire igniting in flashes from the exhaust of the powerful beast of a car. People are cheering and going crazy.
“If that isn’t woman empowerment, I don’t know what is,” Janine says from behind me.
I smile and turn my head toward her. “It is, isn’t it?”
“Yeah, I think I’m in love,” she says with a sigh.
I snort. “Good luck with that.”
“I’m kidding. I know how you feel about her. What I want to know is, what are you going to do about it?”
I scratch my brow. “I’ll give her time. I think she needs some time.”
“Why? I know it’s none of my business, but… why?”
I turn to face her completely. “Because I would die if she still chose him. Even if he is no longer with us. I don’t know how I would handle that.”
I don’t tell her, but I don’t think I would survive it.
“You won’t know if you don’t tell her or show her how you feel, St. Claire. It’s time you show her. It is time you showed her what she has always meant to you.”
I’m in my office when I see an envelope with my name scrawled over it on my desk like it is a bomb waiting to detonate. I saw an envelope like this when Lane passed.
I turn it over and open it, wondering what my good friend wanted to tell me when he thought the time was right.
Kalum,
If you have received this letter. It has been a year I’ve been gone. Knowing Aura, she would have waited this long before venturing out on her own, not caring if my wish was for you to look after her. Knowing her, she would have placed every dime in a trust fund like I figured she would for our son and not touch a dime. She was always like that. She must have thought I didn’t notice how she would avoid buying anything for herself, but I did. I noticed. I should have tried harder, but I was so wrapped up in my selfish ways with my cars that I neglected her in a way. The purpose of this letter is the hope you can look out for her either way. If you haven’t found love, or maybe you have, but if you haven’t and you still love her the way I know deep down, you still do and always will.
Do what I should have done and put her first. Love her like I should have loved her. You’re my boy, and if anyone deserves Aura, it is you. It was always you. Like you said to me that night you bought the jeep for her, if you love someone enough, you let them go even if they don’t come back to you. If that is not love, brother, then I don’t know what is. That jeep brought her to me and hopefully it will bring her back to you in some way. I may have had her past, but you have her present and now you have her future. I trust you with my son, and I trust you with the girl we both fell in love with and promised to take care of. The same way you trusted me to care for her, I trust you to do the same if I am gone. We both knew it would happen. A guy can only escape death on the track by pushing the limit so many times. My time is up, and now it’s your time. Make the most of it, Kalum. Don’t ever doubt the love she had for you, Kalum. I saw it that night in the diner when she poured her heart out to me. It was her love for you that was in her heart. I wanted you to know that.
PS: Don’t let her pick the least expensive item on the menu.
Your friend always.
Lane Turner.
I place the letter on my desk and look down, not believing what I just read. The fucker was always a strategist. It is creepy how he knew that he would die earlier than he expected. He was a loner and an introvert but fell in love with the same girl I did.
The door from my office opens and Janine enters. She is the only one that enters without knocking since she knows my work habits and my schedule. Now, she knows the girl that has me fucked up mentally and emotionally. My weakness.
“So are you still going to stay in the house and try to win your girl back? Woo her?”
“Woo her?” I volley back. “Who the hell says that word anymore?”
“Well, you need to do something and not let her go this time around. She will be back after some dinner Camila told me about.”
I frown. “Dinner? What dinner?”
She waves her hand as she picks up the file that has my next project and prospectus. “Some family dinner they want Aura and Lane Jr. to attend at some country club in Spencer. She is staying with Exie, and they will drive up there.”
Why? So they can make her feel like an outsider and remind her how she doesn’t fit in their world of snobby, rich people? Not on my fucking watch.
“Get my plane ready to go to Spencer.”
