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Seeing things like that charred some parts of your soul, and you never quite recovered from stuff like that.
The crash. The rain. Her screams.
That night played so vividly in my head that you would swear I was living through it again.
“Can we finish up here so we can get lunch?” I steered my thoughts away from that night when the first burn left a mark on me.
“Fine. But I must tell you what happened when I visited Becca’s. The girl took me to a rave.” Xander continued to drone on about his date with the spunky 22-year-old.
Usually, I didn’t like hearing him speak about his sex life, but I needed to distract my mind from what was taking over my thoughts.
I needed to stop thinking about her. And I needed to stop thinking about that night.
It would do me no good, especially now that she was back in town. Those were demons I would instead let lie.
By the time we got our shit in order, it was lunch. Xander and K climbed into my truck and started towards the little deli shop near the station. The idiot buried his head in his phone, choosing whoever was his next victim.
The man had no rest.
I parked along the sidewalks where ‘Papa Panini’ was located.
“Dipshit.” I grabbed his phone that he couldn’t let go of and looked at what he was doing. To my surprise, the little asshole was texting none other than the woman I told to leave alone. “Seriously? I thought I told you that you couldn’t talk to her.”
He grabbed his phone back. “The girl is a good person, Nate. I don’t get why you are such an ass to her. She just moved here and wants to feel more at home.”
“And how exactly do you plan on making her feel at home? Balls deep in her?”
He scowled at me. “I promised you I wouldn’t go there, and I meant every word. I won’t go there. But I am going to be her friend. She needs one right now.”
“I’m sure she has friends.”
“One. She could use a few more.”
“And how do you know how many friends she has?”
“She told me.”
I leaned my head back in my chair.
“I won’t sleep with the girl but will be her friend. Just because you are a class A asshole to her doesn’t mean I need to be one too.”
He was right. My connection to her should not affect how he perceived her. But I couldn't afford her getting close to me, not when I had worked so hard to quiet those demons in my head.
“Fine.”
Xander smiled and opened his door. “Now hurry up. I’m hungry, and we need to return to the station.”
I rolled my eyes and got out of the car.
When we got back to the station, my stomach was full, but my mind wondered about a particular hazel-eyed minx who had come back or haunt me.
“I’m going to lie down,” I told Xander as we walked into the station. “My head is killing me.”
Xander looked at me, a little concerned. “You good?”
I nodded even though I knew the chaos that was swirling in my body right now.
I got to the resting area and closed my eyes, willing for the peace of sleep to somehow come and calm the storm in my mind.
