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“None of your business, Sebastian. I’ve got things to do now. I hope you can see yourself out.”
I turn my back on him and shuffle down the hall to the office. I’ve got numbers to crunch for the feed shipments and a lot of other shit to take care of and I really don’t have time for grannies’ interference.
I hear the door slam down the hall and slump over, my head on the desk. Relief and sadness all kinda coalesce in me.
Until I feel that zapping electricity in my body and I just know. I don’t want to lift my head.
His deep voice grits across my bones like gravel, skating along my nerves and heating up my core.
And that’s the problem. We were friends. We were great friends. And then we weren’t. I wanted more and we kissed on my sixteenth birthday. It was amazing, life changing. Everything I dreamed of with him.
Until he pulled away from me and my eyes opened to the guilty look that he couldn’t hide. His firm yet soft mouth tightens and he says, “I’m sorry, Misty. I shouldn’t have done that.”
And just like that, my teenage heart broke and nothing since then has managed to feel right.
I open my eyes and lift my head. The usual sly, laughing look is gone from his face. I haven’t ever seen him look so serious.
“Misty? What went wrong with us?”
I shake my head, tears stinging my eyes. “It doesn’t matter anymore, Seb. It’s been too long and we’re too far away.”
“You’re right here in front of me. Just tell me what to do to fix us,” he pleads.
“There’s nothing.” The sad look in his eyes hurts my heart but I can’t be around him. Can’t want him like I do and just be friends. It’s just not possible. I tried.
His chin firms and the stubborn look that I know so well settles on his handsome face. “I’m not giving up on us. We were great friends. I just don’t know what happened. But I feel like whatever it is, we can overcome it.”
I shake my head. “No. Stop playing along with the grannies when they start this stuff. There’s no way that we can go back to what we were.”
No matter how much I wish for those simpler times.
CHAPTER2
SEBASTIAN
I stand outsideher door and lean a hand on it, feeling the electricity of her behind it sliding through my veins.
I am an idiot. I really thought that when I told her that I shouldn’t have kissed her we could go back to being just friends. I thought it would all work itself out.
Only to get the biggest kick in my ass when I realized two years later, when we graduated, that I’m in love with her. Probably always have been. I know damn sure I always will be.
But we didn’t go back to being friends after ‘the kiss’. Instead, she ghosted me. Every damn time I tried to talk to her she made sure that she had something else to do. Somewhere else to be. And I swear to God she enlisted all her girlfriends to help her stay away from me.
I fought tooth and nail which just seemed to piss her off. Now she can’t even be in the same town as me without spitting like a fucking cat in my face.
Sighing, I turn away from the door and head out to find the grannies and hand over the goods. I know they don’t really need it tonight. But I also know that they want us together as much as I do. It helps to be around them, knowing that they’re in my corner. Our corner, if only she’d admit that we’re meant to be.
I find them exactly where I left them. In the diner eyeing the other people sitting around in the booths. Nothing makes the grannies happier than trying to play matchmaker. The whole damn town is their playground.
I kiss my grandma’s cheek and smile at her but she sees right through it and rolls her eyes, patting my cheek. “Oh, shit. Should I even ask?”
That’s Granny. She always cuts right to the heart of the matter. My heart. My woman.
I shake my head and hand her the papers, flopping down in the booth next to her. “She still won’t talk to me.”
Misty’s Grandma smirks. “Told you she was gonna be stubborn about this. That girl of mine is a pistol.”
I raise a brow and sip at the lemonade in front of me that the waitress just dropped off. “Yeah. Maybe you could sound a little less proud of that, Granny. She’s busting my ass so hard, it’s like she’s trying to put me through a shredder. I just don’t get why she’s so hostile, dammit!” I slap my hand on the table and both of them crack up. “What?”
