Holding A Heart <3 (On-Hold) - Chloe Knox (summer beach reads .TXT) 📗

of silence; I watched Dayton from my peripheral vision. Every few moments he'd glance back, keeping an eye on Keeley as she snored away. His eyes would quickly snap back to the road and stay put, almost never blinking.

"Why are you so anal?" I asked abruptly.

Dayton narrowed his eyes at me with disbelief, "What?"

"I meant with your driving. You just seem so...careful. Shouldn't guys like you be, you know, speeding or something."

"Guys like me?"

"Yeah, pot-heads." it slipped out and made my chest immediatley tighten with guilt and embarrassment, "Sorry."

Dayton's lips twitched, as if wanting to smile but held it back anyway, "Would you preffer that I go twenty miles over the speed limit?"

"Well...right now? Yeah. Your doing ten on a twenty-five mile an hour road. Now stop trying to avoid the question."

Yet another moment of silence; I watched Dayton as he swallowed a thick knot in his throat, eyes big and watering. I couldn't help but notice his grip tighten significanly on the wheel, his knuckels were turning white, "My, uh...my best friend recently died...he was in a car crash."

Damn! I should have gone along with the speeding thing

, "Jeez, I'm sorry...I didn't know. "

Dayton didn't speak, just nodded...and while most people would have shut their mouths right then and there, I continued to ask questions. "I thought you and Reece were best friends?"

Dayton's soft gaze turned hard and angry, he was glaring at the open road. "I'm his. He never was or will be mine."

By now, going back to complete silence wouldn't make this car ride better, only worse. I had to keep talking, but his time I eagerly changed the topic, "So...you and Keeley...?"

Dayton's brows furrowed, "What about me and Keeley?"

"How long have you two been dating?"

There was a moment of hesitation, then he smiled, a faint chuckle escapin his lips, "Ummm, no. Me and Keeley aren't dating."

"Oh...I just thought with how gentle you were being with her, and how flirty she was with you that--"

"We used to be a thing...it never was that serious but...yeah..."

"Oh, okay..." I looked over my shoulder at Keeley. Even drunk off her ass and snoring, she looked beautiful and unique, "It's really refreshing to see...you still being all sweet on her and stuff." I thought aloud.

Dayton shrugged, "It's not that big a deal...what about you? S' there a guy in the picture?"

"Nope." I said with fake cheer, popping the 'p'.

"No...?" Dayton asked, sounding a bit like he was trying to entertain a toddler with disbelief, "No guy at all?"

I sighed, "I, apparently, turned my last boyfriend gay."

Dayton looked at me, eyes narrowed and mouth agape, yet turned up at the corners. A faint noise escaped him, as if wanting to speak but not knowin what to say. So instead of talking, he laughed.

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Publication Date: 05-31-2012

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Dedication - to my favorite lil sis & my best friends both on BookRix and in "Real Life"! You know who you are, this is for you, for all the support you've all given me!