someone that can make him happy.”
“Ten days is a long time,” she pouted. “I’m gonna miss ya.”
Quinn was more of a sister to me than just a friend. We grew up together, and I couldn’t remember a time when she wasn’t by my side.
“I promise, I’ll call.” I laughed as she tossed the panty liners in my suitcase too.
“Well, of all the weeks you could be gone, this will be the perfect one. You’re a bitch when it’s your time of the month.”
I narrowed my eyes at her, but I couldn’t argue. I really was awful during that time.
Chapter Eleven
Kade
I’d spent the last week fighting the urge to drink. My mother had read me the riot act when I showed up at her place looking like I’d been on a week-long drinking binge. I knew if I didn’t straighten up she would lay my ass out. My mom may be tiny, but she packed one hell of a punch. She spent a lot of years taking shit from me and had reached her limit long ago. These days, she had little tolerance for my self-pity and poor choices.
Instead of drinking, I buried myself in the shop, taking myself out of boss mode and handling all the work I could. I needed the distraction. If my hands weren’t busy with tools, they were itching to grab the nearest bottle of alcohol.
I couldn’t help thinking about Avery every time I looked over at my Mustang, for more than one reason. The way she told me the story about the movie she’d watched, something with Nicholas Cage in it, and her enthusiasm as she explained in detail the meaning behind it was cute.
So after closing the shop down for the day, I stopped by the rental store in search of this car movie. I spent five minutes trying to describe it to the guy behind the counter. He looked at me like I was insane until some girl overheard me and told me the movie’s name was Gone in Sixty Seconds . She then led me right to it.
I hadn’t sat down to watch a movie in a long time. I considered calling Avery but decided that was a bad idea. I didn’t need to keep playing with her head. So I sat through the movie and smiled from ear to ear during the scene she’d told me about that night, where Nicholas Cage called the Mustang his unicorn.
The need to see her became even stronger.
Going against all my better judgement, I turned the movie off and stood from the couch, then grabbed my keys from the hook on the wall just to the left side of the front door.
I drove my truck to the shop and parked just to the right of the garage door. After unlocking the side door, I went straight for the Shelby, and for the first time since my father passed, I fired up the engine. The purr sent an excited chill through my body as I eased it out of the garage. In that moment, the joy I felt made me think of Avery. After I exited the garage, I jumped out to lock the shop back up before I drove toward her apartment. There, I pulled into the space next to her car and killed the engine, then took the pizza I’d stopped for along the way from the passenger seat and climbed out of the car.
My stomach tightened as I approached the door. I wasn’t sure if she would even open it when she saw me on the other side. Taking a chance, I knocked on the door. When it went unanswered, I tried once more, but my loud knocking only gained the attention of her neighbor.
“She’s not home.” The young brunette offered as she poked her head out the door. “She left a few days ago, and I know she said she would be gone for ten days total.”
My stomach dropped. “Do you know where she went?”
“Some guy picked her up and took her on some cruise. Not sure where.” She offered me a kind smile, and I nodded before stepping away and walking back to my car, disposing of the pizza in the dumpster along the way.
Knowing she left with another guy irritated me more than I had the right to be, and knowing she was on a cruise ship, probably in the arms of another man, made my blood boil. The knowledge that
“Ten days is a long time,” she pouted. “I’m gonna miss ya.”
Quinn was more of a sister to me than just a friend. We grew up together, and I couldn’t remember a time when she wasn’t by my side.
“I promise, I’ll call.” I laughed as she tossed the panty liners in my suitcase too.
“Well, of all the weeks you could be gone, this will be the perfect one. You’re a bitch when it’s your time of the month.”
I narrowed my eyes at her, but I couldn’t argue. I really was awful during that time.
Chapter Eleven
Kade
I’d spent the last week fighting the urge to drink. My mother had read me the riot act when I showed up at her place looking like I’d been on a week-long drinking binge. I knew if I didn’t straighten up she would lay my ass out. My mom may be tiny, but she packed one hell of a punch. She spent a lot of years taking shit from me and had reached her limit long ago. These days, she had little tolerance for my self-pity and poor choices.
Instead of drinking, I buried myself in the shop, taking myself out of boss mode and handling all the work I could. I needed the distraction. If my hands weren’t busy with tools, they were itching to grab the nearest bottle of alcohol.
I couldn’t help thinking about Avery every time I looked over at my Mustang, for more than one reason. The way she told me the story about the movie she’d watched, something with Nicholas Cage in it, and her enthusiasm as she explained in detail the meaning behind it was cute.
So after closing the shop down for the day, I stopped by the rental store in search of this car movie. I spent five minutes trying to describe it to the guy behind the counter. He looked at me like I was insane until some girl overheard me and told me the movie’s name was Gone in Sixty Seconds . She then led me right to it.
I hadn’t sat down to watch a movie in a long time. I considered calling Avery but decided that was a bad idea. I didn’t need to keep playing with her head. So I sat through the movie and smiled from ear to ear during the scene she’d told me about that night, where Nicholas Cage called the Mustang his unicorn.
The need to see her became even stronger.
Going against all my better judgement, I turned the movie off and stood from the couch, then grabbed my keys from the hook on the wall just to the left side of the front door.
I drove my truck to the shop and parked just to the right of the garage door. After unlocking the side door, I went straight for the Shelby, and for the first time since my father passed, I fired up the engine. The purr sent an excited chill through my body as I eased it out of the garage. In that moment, the joy I felt made me think of Avery. After I exited the garage, I jumped out to lock the shop back up before I drove toward her apartment. There, I pulled into the space next to her car and killed the engine, then took the pizza I’d stopped for along the way from the passenger seat and climbed out of the car.
My stomach tightened as I approached the door. I wasn’t sure if she would even open it when she saw me on the other side. Taking a chance, I knocked on the door. When it went unanswered, I tried once more, but my loud knocking only gained the attention of her neighbor.
“She’s not home.” The young brunette offered as she poked her head out the door. “She left a few days ago, and I know she said she would be gone for ten days total.”
My stomach dropped. “Do you know where she went?”
“Some guy picked her up and took her on some cruise. Not sure where.” She offered me a kind smile, and I nodded before stepping away and walking back to my car, disposing of the pizza in the dumpster along the way.
Knowing she left with another guy irritated me more than I had the right to be, and knowing she was on a cruise ship, probably in the arms of another man, made my blood boil. The knowledge that
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