Chapter 59

• Brant
• After the awkward lunch, where Melissa had shamelessly flirted and her mother, Lisa, wouldn’t stop dragging up my past with her daughter, we took a stroll around the cabin. Melissa clung to my arm the entire time. Later we had a light dinner, and I had to practically convince her that I needed to freshen up. That was how I finally escaped to my bedroom, the place spotless and organized, and how I ended up, steam rolling over me as I stood under the shower.
• Melissa had been there for me once, back when Jessica left me. I had been a wreck then, drowning, trying to scrape Jessica out of my damn head, and Melissa had filled the silence. She was the distraction I let in.