Page 75 of Spiralling Skywards
“But you’ve only known her a month.”
“I know, it’s fucking mad. It’s been the most intense experience of my life.” I swallowed down the sudden ball of emotion that had made its way from my chest to lodge in my throat. “She quite literally knocked me off my feet the very first time I laid eyes on her. She’s had my head spinning ever since then.”
Sasha nodded as she listened to me talk.
“She’s easy to love.”
“She is,” I agreed.
“She’s as tough as nails and as fragile as a butterfly’s wing, all at the same time.”
Sasha’s analogy made my belly do somersaults.
“What do I do, Sash? How do I get her to forgive me?”
“Don’t do what you did tonight.” Her dark eyes met mine. “I don’t wanna take sides in all this, but I know how much she likes you, and I don’t think she’ll ever feel that way about Will. He’s been too much like a brother to her for too many years now. She’ll never see him any differently, so just ignore his comments. She’s not one for grand gestures or the type of pissing contest that was going on here tonight.”
“I didn’t want any of that to go down the way that it did.”
“You should also know that she loves Will and she won’t wanna hurt his feelings. She loves Luke and his approval matters to her, no matter what she said earlier.
“I don’t think there was a chance she was gonna ever whore around town, but having Luke looking over her shoulder while she was growing up has probably stopped her from experiencing all the things your average twenty-two-year-old should have.”
“I’m fine with that.” I told her. I liked the fact that she was so inexperienced and couldn’t wait to teach her new things. Especially since I’d had a taste of how she behaved once she really let go.
“I bet,” Sash said with a smirk. “I think Sarah’s just fundamentally a good person. A good girl.”
“I dunno about that . . .” Thinking about the way she’d come around my fingers in the shower and over my tongue in our bed.
Ourbed. It was my turn to smirk.
“Yeah, I’ll take your word for that.”
My phone buzzed and I pulled it from my pocket.
Luke:10 minutes, fucker, then I’ll be tying your dick to the exhaust of my car and dragging that suntanned Aussie arse thru the streets back to my house. LEAVE MY SISTER ALONE.
Followed by
Luke:NOW!!!
I waited to see if another threat would roll in, and when it didn’t, I shot off a quick text back.
Me:Waiting for a cab, arsehole.
“Can I just pop up and check on her?”
“Nope.” Sasha exaggerated the p sound with apop, as if to exaggerate the fact that I wasn’t getting anywhere near Sarah tonight.
I could’ve gone across the road and stayed at the flat, but I knew by doing so, I would just piss Luke off even more, plus, I had no clothes there for the morning. I reluctantly called a cab and went home to Luke’s. My weekend ending so differently from how it’d started.
