Free Amethyst Tears (YA Paranormal Romance) (Luminescence Trilogy) by J.L. Weil Page A

matter how you twist it, I still deceived him. I should have told him the truth much sooner than I did, and in the process I hurt him.” I slumped against my seat, food forgotten. This was not making me feel better.
    “ So what happened when you told him? Did he get mad at you?” he asked with a hint of irritation creeping in.
    I twirled my straw. “Something like that. I haven’t talk to him since the night I told him. He is avoiding me like I’m contagious with a deadly disease.”
    “Then he’s an idiot.” His eyes flashed.
    I shifted in my sit . “It’s not like that.”
    He arched a brow, clearly not believing me. “What makes you so positive? He hasn’t called you. H e’s been avoiding you.”
    I shrugged. How could I make him understand that what was between Gavin and I ran deeper. It was more. There was some invisible thread st ringing us together. “I can’t explain it.”
    His gaze held mine with a glowing tint. “That’s crap, and you know it.”
    Doubt bubbled up. Did I? I wasn’t so sure anymore.
    Crossing his arms he declared, “He sounds like an asshole.”
    “He’s not, really. Actually he’s been nothing but supportive,” I defended.
    “Well that may be, but if I were him, I wouldn’t have walked away so easily.” There was passion and anger in his words.
    Gulping, I believed him. The change in his eyes was swift, scarily so. I would be lying to myself if I didn’t admit that there was a fraction of fear inside me. He must have noticed it, because a moment later he banked that fire, and sighed. “I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to sound so harsh.”
    I fro wned. Maybe I was just being overly twitchy about this whole thing. I had nothing to fear from Lukas, never had before. “Let’s just forget about it.”
    “ Under one condition,” he replied, stretching his long legs.
    Great . I was almost afraid to find out what his one condition would be. I eyed him warily.
    He smiled at me with his Lukas award winning grin. “ You share dessert with me. We need chocolate.”
    I snickered . “You’re right. Chocolate makes everything better.” Well at least if you are a girl.
    He ordered a triple chocolate cake. Just one. And like that, there was a weight gone from air again. I could breathe. Gone was the weird tension, he was the Lukas from my dreams. My golden witch. My friend.
    I missed him.
    “Here.” He forked a bite of chocolate cake, holding it suspended over the table. “You have got to try this.” He stretched across the table. The college t-shirt he wore spread across the muscles on his chest.
    Yum. And I wasn’t just talking about the cake.
    My mouth watered.
    I kept my expression blank. A part of me knew I was crossing a line, but it was not like I was kissing him, even though it felt...more. The candle on the table flickered, and I rubbed my hands on my jeans. Leaning over the table, I took the bite he offered. The chocolate literally melted in my mouth. “God that is good,” I said after I swallowed the sugary goo.
    “You bet your sweet ass.” His emerald eyes twinkling.
    “Your way with words is staggering.”
    “I’m just getting started.”
    “That’s what I’m afraid of.” I seriously hoped that was a metaphor for something else. Or I was going to find myself in a precarious situation with more guys than I could handle. Breaking hearts wasn’t my forte.
    Friend , I reminded myself. We are just friends.
    Who would have ever imagined that at the brink of eighteen, I would find myself in such a mess? Certainly not me.

     
     
    Chapter 10
     
    ANOTHER WEEK WITHOUT GAVIN .
    Depressing.
    This was getting ridiculous. How was he going to keep his grades up to graduate? It wasn’t like he could just spell his way through high school. Or maybe he could.
    Enough was enough. I got that he was mad at me, that he refused to answer my messages, but there had to be a way we could co-exist for gosh sake.
    To make matters worse, Rianne decided today was the day she made