Chapter Thirteen
Rip
I pushed her too hard, too fast. And she ran on me.
She called the next day to cancel the tutoring session we were supposed to have and I could kick myself. I shouldn’t have moved so fast. I should have let her look at it and then went to the bathroom to take care of myself.
I give her a day and then I go looking for her. I catch her coming out of the bakery.
“Hey.”
I can’t help but run my eyes over her and drink her in. She looks good today in a skirt and long-sleeved shirt. “Do you have time to talk to me, sweetheart?”
“Not really. I’m kind of late.”
She looks flustered and like I am the last person she wants to run into.
“Late? For what?”
“I…uh…,”
she looks behind her before turning back to me.
“Hey, Tandy, you ready to go or you need another minute.”
The guy comes up smiling like a fucking idiot and hugs her.
A hot streak of lightning ignites throughout my body. Who the hell is this guy and why is he touching my girl?
“I’ll, uh, talk to you later, Rip.”
I step back and let the two of them walk past me.
“Yeah, okay.”
Guess she’s made her choice on who she wants…and it’s not me.
I make it home before I punch a hole in anything. And spend the fucking week trying to figure out why she asked to touch my dick if she had the other guy eating out of the palm of her fucking hand. Why would she act so innocent and unaware if she’s jumping in the lap of every other guy she meets?
She calls me but I ignore her and let all of her calls go to voice mail and don’t text her back. When she texts, I read them but don’t answer any of them.
Fuck it! I don’t need some lady jerking me around and trying to make me crazy. I don’t need another friend. And I damned sure don’t need Tandy playing with my fucking heart. Aaron calls and asks me to come out with him and a couple of the other guys, but I tell him I don’t feel great and want to make sure I’m in top form for the weekend.
I think he suspects something is wrong when I show up at one of the parties without Tandy. It doesn’t help that everyone asks about her. We have an away game on Saturday. Tandy was supposed to go with me but now…everything is different. The last person I want to come to my game would be Tandy.