Unexpected Chance by Annalisa Nicole Read Free Book Online Page A

the hell does that even mean?” I ask.
    “Nothing, never mind,” she says.
    I catch up to her and stand in front of her. “Tell me what’s going on,” I say, stopping her again.
    “It doesn’t matter,” she says.
    “It does matter? Savvy, it matters to me,” I say, pointing at myself. She rolls her eyes upwards to try and stop the flow of tears. “Alright, I won’t force you to talk about it right now, but I’m not letting you walk home. I’m driving you,” I say, and hold my arm out in the direction of my car.
    “You’re not letting me?” she asks in a high pitched voice.
    I hold up my hands in defense and slowly reach for her bags. I’m not sure what’s going on, but I can see the conflict in her eyes. She lets me take her bags, then I take her hand and lead her back to my car. She doesn’t say a word the entire way to her condo.
    Before I even get to her house, I see a rusty, beaten up brown, Chevy, parked across the street from her condo development.
    “Oh, hell no!” I say, speeding away down the street.
    “What? Wait, you promised. You said you’d take me home,” she says.
    “I don’t think Reno is gone. There’s someone in that car across from your condo. I’m calling Max, and you’re coming home with me,” I tell her.
     
    Savvy
    When I looked around Samantha’s dinner table at everyone, it hit me, and boy did it hit me hard. I’m not like these people. I’m damaged, ruined; I’m no good for anything or anyone. I’m poison, and these people are like royalty. They’re successful, classy, well-to-do, upper class. You know, the opposite of me. If I keep hanging around them, they’ll soon realize it for themselves. I don’t belong with them. I can dream and fantasize about their kind of life, and I can fantasize that I’m good enough to be with Aiden. But it will never happen.
    “Oh, hell no!” Aiden says, and accelerates past my condo looking in his rear view mirror as he goes.
    “What? Wait, you promised. You said you’d take me home,” I say, worried about what he just saw.
    “I don’t think Reno is gone,” he says, pulling out his cell phone from the front pocket of his jeans. He presses a button and the phone rings through the speakers.
    “Max, there’s a rusted brown Chevy sitting across the street from Savvy’s condo. There’s a guy sitting in the driver’s seat, and he was watching Savvy’s house. I didn’t get a good look, but I’m not taking Savvy back to her condo. She’s coming home with me,” he says.
    “On it,” Max says, and disconnects.
    What in the hell is going on? Reno must have smoked too much crack and his last brain cell has been fried. Who the hell would mess with Max, Jax, and the rest of the Wellington clan? Chloe even scares me. The thing is, I know what Reno is capable of doing. I have a mix of emotions running through my head. I just got done telling myself that I’m not like these people, yet I’m going back to Aiden’s house, again. I don’t want anyone to know it, but I am scared to go back to my condo by myself. Maybe I’ll just clean Aiden’s bathroom or something to show my gratitude.
    We pull into his garage, and he closes the door behind his car. He plugs his car in and I still think it’s kind of funny he has an electric sports car. He walks around to my side and opens the door. He takes my bags from me before I get a chance to tell him that I’ve got them, and we go inside. He sets my things down by the couch, and then checks the front windows. Oh my God, does he think that Reno would follow us back here? He closes the curtains, then walks back over to me with a smile.
    “I’m going to go check the battery in your car. You want to come and watch?” he asks.
    I can think about a million things I’d like to watch him do and about nine hundred, ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred, and ninety-nine are pretty dirty and involve him naked. Luckily, watching him look at my car is the millionth thing. A girl can still