Chapter Fourteen
Beth
It was Saturday and my heart hurt, so I slept in.
Shuffled out for breakfast to find Jacob sitting with my parents. Oh, not good.
Oh, not good.My steps only faltered a second while I pretended to not see him. Cereal, bowl, milk, spoon, and I shuffled back toward my room.
“Elizabeth, you have a visitor,” Mom said. I stopped cold.
Damn. Almost got away. “He can wait until I’m dressed,” I said, and continued to my room.
Damn. Almost got away.I was in for a lecture later about manners, but right now I didn’t care. My brain needed fuel before I could deal with any of this. The nerve of him sitting down with my parents!
“Beth…”
He was following me? Of course he was following me.
Right into my room, since I was too slow to shut the door in his face. “I—”
“Listen,
