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“What a pretty name for a pretty lady.”
I swear I almost gag. “Sebastian!” I spit out. “We need to go!”
He smiles at her and then bows slightly. “It’s been a pleasure but we really do need to be going.”
She smirks at him and he holds his arm out for her to slip her fingers in between his arm and his side.
“Ugh! I think I’m going to be sick” I growl.
“What was that?” The smirk in Sebastian’s eyes says he knows exactly what I said.
“Nothing. Let’s go.”
He nods but he chit chats with the merry widow while we’re walking and then while I and a neighbor grab the mailbox, he talks lightly with the woman.
I have never wanted to slug someone in the face as much as I have right now.
But I hold myself in check. I cannot say anything in front of her because sure as shit, Sebastian would make me suffer. And I still don’t have a clue why the fact that he’s literally charming the pants off of this woman should bother me at all. But it does.
And that’s a terrifying thought.
CHAPTER6
SEBASTIAN
Okay,so my ego is a little puffed up right now. Not that I really intend to call the woman that pressed her number into my hand last night. Not at all. The only woman for me is Misty so there is no other option. I need Misty.
But the whole ride home she never said one word. And it’s another damn day. Another day that I don’t have my Misty.
And I’m really starting to get impatient.
But today is two things. I found three French hens and four turtle doves.
I call Misty, knowing that she’s gonna have a shit fit. She doesn’t pick up the phone though. Over and over it just keeps going to voicemail.
I hit up my favorite coffee shop and grab coffee for both of us and then head out to her ranch.
I wish her parents hadn’t died the year we turned sixteen. That’s part of the reason that I regretted kissing her. She was still working through their loss, and it broke my heart to see how sad she was all the time. Her usually bubbly smile was gone. She was just a shadow of herself. I didn’t want to think that she kissed me just because she needed anyone. I was just a warm body to comfort her.
I didn’t like thinking that but you better believe I did. I thought about it every day for the next two years while we were in school and she was avoiding me like the damn plague.
She made new friends and they kept her so busy. And far away from me. She didn’t date anyone, but she hung out with so many different guys that I could picture trying to kiss her. I wanted to beat the hell out of all of them.
But especially Jimmy Hunter. He hung around her the last year in school and he was so annoying. Always smiling at her and talking to her. I don’t think they ever went out but they might have. If I hadn’t hunted him down the one night and given him an ultimatum.
Leave my girl alone or I will make mincemeat out of you. And I meant it. I seriously think I would have killed him. I almost did when he laughed and said he wasn’t really interested in her. He just liked the fact that she seemed into him.
Fucker! Everyone in school wondered how he got the black eye and busted-up face but nobody could ever drag it out of him.
My lip curls up into a vicious grin. I threatened to oust him for a little bit of mischief that he’d done the year before. He broke into the school and made a mess out of one of the classrooms because he was pissed at the teacher.
He was a sorry piece of shit, and I don’t regret it at all. Don’t blame myself for the fact that he ended up in jail two years after we graduated either.
I pull up on her ranch and eye the buildings, noticing the peeling paint and the signs that she’s running into a little trouble. I’d gladly help her. If she’d take it.
Her slight figure comes out of the barn and she’s wiping her hands on her jeans as she walks up to me, grimacing. “What are you doing here, Sebastian?”
“Where are your hands, Misty?” I ignore her question and hand over the cup of coffee which she grabs out of my hands like a greedy toddler at Christmas.
