Free Broken #4 (The Broken Series - Book #4) by Claire Adams

it.”
    I
laughed. “It's really not that dramatic. My dad just taught me a lot of stuff.”
    Karen
laughed. “Don't be a spoil sport there, Jet; you can't win them all.”
    “Well,
why not?”
    We
all laughed and Jet got up from the chair he was sitting in. “Well I have to
hit the little boys’ room. I will be right back, Natalie. I will leave you in
the care of my lovely sister.”
    Karen
sat down in the seat that Jet vacated and smiled at me warmly. I really liked
his sister. She seemed sweet. I was just about to engage in a conversation with
Karen when out of the corner of my eye, I saw Katie get up from her seat. It
wouldn't have seemed unusual, except for the fact that she went the same way
that Jet had gone. I sat there for a few minutes, wondering what I should do. I
wanted to be able to trust Jet, and I was sure the two of them going down the
hallway had just been a coincidence. But something was nagging at me to go find
Jet.
    “Natalie,
are you sure you're okay?”
    Startled
I looked at Karen and nodded. My God, she must think that I'm a basket case.
    “Sorry,
Karen, I'll be right back.” I stood up abruptly, not offering any type of
explanation, and headed down the same hallway they went down in search of the
bathroom. I knew there had to be a main floor bathroom for guests, and when I
turned another corner, there was Jet against the wall. They appeared to be
talking when all of a sudden, Katie kissed him. It was the worst thing I had
ever seen, and I wanted to scream.
    “What
the hell is going on?” I yelled at them, and Katie separated from Jet
immediately, looking embarrassed. I spun around and walked away, hearing Jet
call to me from down the hall. I wasn't about to have any type of a
conversation with him at that moment. All I wanted was to get the hell out of
that house. I made my way around the corner and headed for the closet to grab
my coat. I didn't want to alarm any of the other guests, so I slipped my coat
on and quietly left the house without looking back. I just needed to get out of
there.

 
    Chapter
Eight
    Jet

 
    I
stood in the hallway with Katie, unable to believe what just happened. Staring
at her, I just shook my head; I didn't even have words to say to her at that
moment. I turned away and ran down the hallway to find Natalie. I couldn't find
her at first. I checked the other bathroom, and the
sitting room where my family was. I asked Karen if she had seen her. It hadn't
occurred to me that she would actually leave my house. But as I stared at the
front door, I knew that she had done exactly that.
    I
rushed out the door and saw her walking down the sidewalk. She was actually
planning on walking home alone on Thanksgiving. I could have just killed myself
at that moment. After all the time it took to get her to be mine, and now this had to happen. How could I have been so stupid? To have allowed anything to upset Natalie this way? She
didn't deserve things like this happening to her, especially after she went
through what she did with her ex.
    It
killed me to see her walking away from me. I called out to her a few times,
yelling her name down the street, but she didn't even turn to look at me. She
just kept walking. I start running after her and grab her by the arm. I turned
her around and the look on her face should have turned me to stone.
    “Natalie,
please let me explain.”
    “Explain
what, Jet?”
    I
sighed. “Natalie, it's not what you think at all. Please, I know what it looked
like, but it wasn't what you think.”
    “Oh no?”
    “She
kissed me, Natalie; I didn't kiss her .”
    “Oh,
is that how it works? So because she made the first move, it doesn't count?”
    “That's
not what I mean. It wasn't me doing anything. She made a move on me; it was out
of my control.”
    “Don't
feed me bullshit, okay? She has been all over you every chance she’s had, and
you're telling me you had no idea that she was about to kiss you? I wasn't born
yesterday. I sure as hell know