Chapter fourteen
Posted by u/FairwayWatcher94
Title: Cameron. Ebony. A yacht. Alone. ??
[The picture showed Ebony and Cameron sitting on a step. Both side by side laughing as they each held a half-eaten burger.]
Caption: Things are getting interesting.
u/CaffeineAndViolence:
I don’t knowwhatthe hell is going on between those two, but I know one thing, Gavin is punching drywall right now.
u/NoThoughtsJustDrama:
And Cameron of all people? His best friend?! Diabolical. Man’s really out here trying to get murdered by his best friend.
u/Petalpusher:
Does one call it murder when the person is a fucking traitor and thief?
u/ItsAlwaysTheQuietOnes
I saw Gavin’s Bronco parked up the street last week. Just sitting there. I couldn’t figure it out until I saw Ebony walk out of the mechanic’s shop.
u/WhereIsTheLie:
He’s stalking her. Yeah, I said it.
u/CrabQueen03:
I heard she’s friends with a girl who works there.
u/ItsAlwaysTheQuietOnes
And if that wasn’t enough? My buddy who works harbor control said Ebony and Cameron were out on the waterall day.Just the two of them. On her family’s yacht. Alone.
u/NoThoughtsJustDrama:
Tell me again how they’re “just friends.” I’ll wait.
Chapter fifteen
With his arms folded on top of the steering wheel Gavin waited and watched. Parked under the shade of a large crepe myrtle tree at the corner of the street, he would go unnoticed unless someone looked. With no music on, he let the silence extend around him, only broken occasionally by the odd passing of cars or the piercing morning call of a blue jay overhead.
Right now, he needed the silence. It acted as a counter balance to his spiraling thoughts.
The last time Ebony spoke to him was two days ago at Garrett's house. The bastard had invited her over tostudy. More like bait. Garrett had been the first one to tell him that this plan of his to step back from Ebony had beendumb as fuck. He warned him he was just going to make things worse. Gavin ignored him.
What the hell did that overgrown bastard know? He was currently shacked up with the love of his life waiting on her hand and foot, reshaping the naïve woman's life until everything she would ever do and know would be Garrett alone. She was falling right into the trap Garrett had built. The bastard had everything he wanted. Worse, he had theoptionto have everything he wanted while Gavin was shackled down by everyone's expectations.
Just to fuck with him, Garrett had lured Ebony to his house under the excuse of helping her with calculus—something she used to rely on him for. Back before he fucked everything up. Gavin had shown up to the bastard's house ready to burn the place down when he realized the con and met Ruby.
Thepoor woman probably thought he was insane. She had sat there with her tired but kind eyes and watched as he and Ebony bickered back and forth. Pathetically, all Gavin could think about was how damn good it felt to have her looking at him again. Watching the way her soft lips moved when she spoke, like nothing had changed, like she hadn’t wrecked him with her silence. The urge to grab her and pull her close had him clenching his jaw and reminding himself over and over again with his vow as to why he couldn't. Why he could never have her.
By the time they left, he could hardly breathe and was regretting every decision he ever made.
A feeling that was becoming his new normal.
