Chapter 26
Jack deserved Erin’s denial and rejection of what he knew was true. He’d been in love one other time in his life, and could never mistake the feelings. But he was to blame with how piss poor he treated Erin. He denied her, as well as himself, and blamed it all on what happened with Joey, when really, Joey was nothing to the equation at all. Joey was merely the catalyst for Jack to finally face what he was so afraid to face: being in love again.
Joey was sitting on the bottom step of the porch with two black eyes, and a big lip. He had a bag of frozen peas on one eye. He watched Jack walking up, and appeared weary.
“So, I guess I screwed this up.”
Joey stared at him for a long moment before a smile tugged on his cracked lips. “You could have just told me.”
“You didn’t have t
