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Authors: Amanda Bennett
This Trust of Mine
This Trust
of Mine
By
Amanda
Bennett
Copyright
©
2013 By Amanda Bennett
All
rights reserved. Printed in the United States
No
part of this book may be used or reproduced in any form or by any means
electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any
information storage and retrieval systems, without prior written permission of
the author except where permitted by law.
The
characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to
real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.
Cover
art by Robin Harper/ Wicked By Design
Check
out other books by Amanda Bennett
Time To Let Go
Beautifully Broken (The Broken Series #1)
Breaking Beautiful (The Broken Series #2)
Misguided Heart
This Love of Mine (Raine Series #1)
Coming
Soon
This Heart of Mine (Raine Series #3) JULY
2013
Unbreakable Hearts (The Broken Series #3
novella) AUGUST 2013
Faithless SEPTEMBER 2013
(All dates are subject to change)
You
can find Author Amanda Bennett at the following:
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www.goodreads.com/author/show/6550967.Amanda_Bennett
A huge thanks to everyone who constantly
supports me and reads my books. You all are amazing beyond belief.
A special thanks to:
Jenn Foor (Author)
Rebecca Donovan
(Author)
Thank you for all the support.
Robin Harper (Cover Artist)
You are an amazing person and cover artist and I
have decided I am keeping you..LOL
Thank you to all of my new friends on Facebook,
Twitter and Goodreads y'all are amazing, wonderful people.
A HUGE shout out to The Rock Stars of Romance,
y'all ROCK!!!
Thank you to all the book bloggers that have helped
spread the word for all of my books and that have taken the time to read and
review my work. I seriously couldn't have asked for better people in my life:
Denise & Nic w/ Flirty and Dirty Book Blog,
Swoon Worthy Books, Sugar and Spice Book Reviews, Into The Night Reviews, I
Heart Books, The Book Hookers, Hardcover Therapy, Morning After A Good Book,
Bridger Book Blog, The Sub Club, Winding Stairs Book Blog, Sandwich Making
Bitch Book Blog, LeBook Squirrel, Totally Booked, Book Crush, and The Little
Black Book Blog, just to name a few
To my #1 fan and amazing new blogger Tamsyn Bester
(The Secret Book Brat) You are an amazing person and I am proud to call you my
friend.
A HUGE thanks to my beta readers and amazing new
friends. I could not have finished this book without y'all:
Cami Holt-Krystyniak (my amazing editor and an even
more amazing best friend), Ena Burnette, Mechelle Lovell-Jackson,
& Tosha Powers
Table of Contents
Chapter 1
One month later
Madison
"Raine,
get your ass out here and warm up, I don't want to have to tell you
again."
"Yes,
Coach." I yelled back as I slipped my cell phone back into my bag. This
was the tenth time I had checked it today, and still nothin' from Kayla.
It had now
been a month since I had spoken to her last. I called her after the long as
hell, twelve and a half hour long drive, but she didn't pick up. After at least
twenty more calls on my behalf, I finally got a phone call back from Cami. She
did little to ease my anxiety by saying that Kayla was sleeping and would call
me back sooner rather than later. She also told me not to worry.
Well, it was
too late for that. She had seemed so excited for me to call her when I got in,
I guess I just assumed she would pick up the instant she saw my name illuminate
the screen. Apparently not.
That whole
first day of practice was extremely brutal. Not only had I not worked out at
all over the short summer break, but I also couldn't manage to keep my head at
practice. When I got back to the dorms that evening, I took a quick shower and
prayed that in the ten minutes I was gone, I hadn't missed her call.
Luck had
been on my side that night, because she called the minute I got back to my
dorm. From the moment I answered the phone, I knew something was off with her.
She wasn't my happy, carefree, pretty girl anymore. I urged her to tell me what
was wrong, but she just told me she was missing me and to not worry.
Unfortunately, when it came to that girl, all I did was worry. I knew her momma
hadn't been back, mainly because I had my gran keeping tabs on her, but I would
also hope that she would have said something.
Our
conversation that night was short and sweet, with the promise that she would
call me the next night, around the same time. That was exactly twenty-nine
days, eight hours and five, now six minutes ago. Believe me, it wasn't for a
lack of tryin'. I had picked up my phone countless amounts of time, but it
always went straight to voicemail. Voicemails I knew she wasn't receiving or at
least not listening to, because her voicemail box had been full for a week now.
I hated the
fact that I had let a girl do this to me. I know I was the one who all but
broke it off, but we had promised to at least talk. We only had a few weeks
left before school now, and I was starting to go a little nuts. What if she
found someone else, but couldn't bring herself to tell me? Ugh, this shit was
starting to get really ridiculous.
The next
day, after practice came to a close, I gathered my things and high tailed it
back to my dorm. I knew my coach was ready to give me a verbal lashing, but I
just wasn't in the mood to deal with his shit today. When I opened my door, I
half expected my roommate to be there, but he had yet to show up.
I threw my
gym bag onto my bed in the far corner and quickly grabbed my cell phone checking
it for messages. Still nothing. Damn it, Kayla. If I didn't have practice and
if school wasn't about to start, I would've driven my ass down there, demandin'
she talk to me. I scrolled through my phone for Glenn's number and dialed.
After the third ring, I was about to hang up, but then I heard Glenn's voice.
"Hello?"
There was a lot of commotion in the background and I wondered where the hell he
was at.
"Hey,
what's goin' on?" I shouted.
"Madison,
bro, how's it goin' in the big AZ?"
"It's
goin'. Hey, I need to ask you a question." I didn't want to involve Glenn
in my drama, but from what I had gathered from the last time we talked, he was
still talkin' to Cami.
"Shoot."
"Have
you still been talkin' to Cami?" I regretted askin' the minute the words left
my mouth.
"On and
off, yeah. Why what's up? Is somethin' wrong?" I could still hear an array
of voices in the background and I was starting to get pissed.
"Where
the hell are you?"
I heard him
shush everyone and it suddenly went very quiet. "We're havin' a little
going away party for everyone headin' off to college. We're all down at the
swimming hole. Cami's actually here, do you wanna talk to her?"
A wave of
relief washed over me, but it only lasted for a second because suddenly, my
mind went to wondering where Kayla was. "Yeah, put her on please."
The line
went silent for a minute and then Cami's small girly voice echoed through the
line.
"Hello?"
"Hey
Cami, how are ya?" Ugh, I just wanted to get straight to the point, but I
also needed to handle this conversation with finesse, so I could get as much
info out of her as possible.
"I'm
doing good, Madison. How are you? Sorry, dumb question. I'm guessing you want
to know where Kayla is?"
She didn't
sound irritated at all by this, so I went for it. "Yeah, if you don't
mind. I've been tryin' to call her for a month now, and I get nothin' back. Is
she okay, Cami?"
She let out
a loud sigh before answering me. "She's doing good, Madison. She's just
been busy getting ready to start school and all. She's actually here with
me."
My mouth
dropped open and my mind ceased to work. I was also having a hard time
breathing. What did she mean she was with her? Kayla could find time to go to
the hole with everyone, in a bikini, but couldn't even pick up a phone to talk
to me? What the hell?
"Serious,
Cami. Are you serious?"
"Yeah,
Madison. I'm serious; she's on the other side of the hole right now swimming
with Dennis.
She was at
the swimming hole, and she was there with
Dennis.
I'm surprised smoke wasn't billowing out of my ears, because I was fuming.
I felt like I was about to pass out with all this new information. And, I was
suddenly beginning to worry that Kayla was slipping back into her old ways. I
could only hope that Cami wouldn't allow that to happen.
"Madison,
you still there?"
"Yeah.
Alright well, as long as she is okay then I'm gonna let ya go. Thanks
Cami."
Before she
could respond, I hung up. I wasn't interested in knowing anything else that was
going on with all of them. Obviously, what I thought we had, was totally
different than what she thought we had.
I chucked my
phone across the small room, and I heard the screen of my iPhone shatter as it
hit the wall. I threw myself back onto my bed and covered my eyes with my left
arm. How could it have gotten to this point? Everything seemed fine when I was
saying good-bye and leaving. What the hell had happened between then and now?
I knew it
was still early in the night, but I was bushed and had no reason to stay up
anymore. She wasn't going to call, and I sure as hell wasn't going to push her
any further by tryin' to call her. I was officially done tryin' to make her
want to be with me, or even talk to me. I shoved off my clothing, keeping only
my boxer briefs on, before rolling over and drifting off to sleep.
*****
She was
there, standing in front of me. Her beautiful, brown curled hair hung down to
the waistband of her super tight, short white cut offs. My eyes raked down her
body, taking in every single detail of her, so I could commit it to memory. Her
pale pink shirt clung to her sweaty body in the mid-day sun and when my face
finally met hers, she was smiling.
I wanted to
reach out and touch her, but I had been having these dreams long enough to
know, that if I tried, she would disappear and this time I wanted her to stay.
"Why have you been away from me so long?"