Chapter Thirty-Seven
Beth
By summer, Jacob was less secretly-sensitive poet and more love-‘em-and-leave-‘em rock star. Calandra was on his arm for public events until August, but I knew she wasn’t the only girl he saw. Stardom had truly turned him into a player.
Yep, all play and no responsibility.
I even filled out his checks for him, only asking him to sign his name.
He’d always run in his own orbit, so to speak, but now…he started taking everything for granted. Especially me.
“Bethie…” came over the intercom.
I cringed and pressed the talk button on the unit. “Yeah?”
talk“Order in some food. The guys are comin’ over.”
“What do you want? And how many do you mean by ‘the guys’?”
He’d taken to hosting parties or get-togethers on short notice and making me and Maria scramble to pu
