Filed To Story: The Perfect Spiral Book PDF Free by Ashley Constantine
Why does he care so much? I just don’t get it. It’s like a switch flipped in his mind in Savannah and he decided to be nice to me all of a sudden.
I left the room and went out to the kitchen, pressing dial when I saw his name on my screen. He answered after three rings.
“Hey,” he said softly.
“Hey,” I replied. There were a few moments of silence. I honestly didn’t know what to say. I was in shock that he’d
KIKA bought me these gifts, but I was the last person in the world who deserved anything from him.
“Knox, L… I can’t accept the presents.”
“Sure you can, baby doll.”
“No, I can’t. It doesn’t feel right. Thank you, but I don’t deserve any of it.”
“Please, baby doll, I bought them for you before… before the shit hit the fan. Please, I want you to have them. And don’t ever say you don’t deserve anything because you deserve a lot more than what I just gave you.”
“Why? I don’t understand why you got them for me. I… please, Knox, I can’t accept them. Thank you, though. They’re absolutely beautiful and perfect, but I don’t deserve any of it. I don’t even deserve the card from you. There’s no damage done to either of them, so you can give them back and get your mon-“
“Alex, I don’t want them. I’m not taking them from you. I will refuse them if you send them back to me, and I won’t send them back. I want you to have them. I’m glad I bought them for you.”
“Why are you doing this?”
“Because I want to make it up to you. It’s the least I can do.”
“You have nothing to make up to me, Knox.”
“Yes, I do. I have a lot to make up to you. I have years of making up to do.”
I sighed and leaned back, staring up at the ceiling in my kitchen.
“Alex!!” Eden burst through the kitchen doors, dolls in hand. I picked her up and placed her on the counter.
“Who’s on the phone?” she asked. I told her it was Knox. She grabbed the phone from my hand and started chattering away, her dolls forgotten on the counter.
“Knoxie! Thank you for the p-wesent. Yea… yea… yeaaaa… Uh-huh… Are you coming over? I want to play dolls with you and Adam… Okay… yea… yea…”
She could talk to him all day if she could.
“Alrighty then! Yes, she’s here… okay… bye now! Love you!” she finally handed the phone back to me. I wedged the phone between my cheek and shoulder, setting Eden back on the floor.
“Baby doll?”
“Yeah?”
“Look, I get that you want to keep your distance from me, but I want you to have the presents. Please.” I leaned against the counter, releasing another sigh and nodding my head.
“Okay, but expect a present from me. And thank you… you really didn’t have to. I love them. I love them a lot. Tell the family I say Merry Christmas and I hope Adam enjoys his presents.”
“I look forward to it. Anytime, baby doll. Merry Christmas! See you around.” He kept it short and sweet. We hung up the phone and I trudged back into the living room where Eric was waiting.
“Hey sweetheart,” he beamed as I sat on the sofa next to him. He wrapped his arm around me, pulling me into his side.
“Hey,” I replied softly.
“How’d it go?”
“It went fine. I just feel bad taking the gifts from him. You know?”
“I get it. But I’m also a guy. He wouldn’t have sent them to you if he didn’t want you to have them. Besides, he left them here two days after everything happened.
I had a talk with him. I think you mean a lot more to him than you think, sweetheart.”
“Hah, yeah, the guys have always been protective of me. They see me as their little sister too. But I think this is for the best. I can’t deal with the attention. It isn’t for me.”
“Well, I think you mean a little more to him than the rest of the guys. But sweetheart, your name is already out there so you shouldn’t let that stop you from talking to him. It’s not his fault.
I know he didn’t stick up for you, but I think he thought you could handle it. You are a feisty little thing, so he thought you didn’t need it by the sounds of it.”
“Doubt that. Yeah, I get where you’re coming from, but it’s one thing having another person there with you also being ignored than having nobody there and you’re only being ignored.
Eric, I felt like crap that day. It was just one blow after another, plus I’m already trying to get over the whole Drew situation. It’s just not great timing at the moment, I’m a little sensitive right now.”
He nodded his head in understanding and was about to say something else when my mom called us for breakfast.
I kissed him on the cheek and said, “Thanks for listening, Eric. I always appreciate your opinion and everything you’ve done for me and my mom. You have no idea.”
“I’ll always be here for you guys and the beautiful woman I get to call my wife in the next room. Know that, kiddo.”
We entered the kitchen and stuffed our faces with the breakfast my mom had made. The little ones were playing with their new toys and Lena was engrossed in her new iPhone.
Sitting around the dining table, listening to people chat amongst themselves, I just listened, taking it all in when I felt a hand on the back of my neck with a light squeeze.
Turning in my chair, I saw Kyle giving me a faint smile. He nodded his head towards the door, asking me to go outside with him, so we both got up to leave the room and walked out to the foyer.
We sat on the cold, hard tiled floor, only to be greeted by Boomer. We both started to play with him for a while before either one of us spoke.
“All my years I’ve known Carter, I’ve never seen him like this, Alex. He punched a hole in the garage wall when we tried to calm him down.”
“He what? Are you serious!”
“Yup, what did you say to him? He wouldn’t tell any of us. Still won’t. I think I deserve to know what happened between my best friend and my sister.”
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