Chapter 5
Austin
I can’t believe I lost.
I’ve never lost in Mario Kart. Not since... the last time I played Brett years ago. I groan and drag my hands over my face. I know he’s laughing. Mother fucking... No. I can’t let Brett have any kind of effect on me. I need to go back to being the one in charge of my thoughts and emotions. I have to control myself a little better.
I don’t even know what I’m doing here. I swore I’d be done with Brett, but I don’t know... something changed between us the night he saved me from Carson. I started seeing him a new light—no, a slightly better light than before. I’m still angry over what he did back in high school, but I’ve made a little room for forgiveness. Just a little. I’m still a work in progress.
But I can’t stop thinking about him, that hot, s
