Total pages in book: 79
Estimated words: 80074 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 400(@200wpm)___ 320(@250wpm)___ 267(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 80074 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 400(@200wpm)___ 320(@250wpm)___ 267(@300wpm)
Tabloids would be losing their shit tomorrow. I could see the headlines now, “Jackson Pierce and Cash McGraw caught in a heated argument.”
I didn’t give a flying fuck, ignoring the press and his groupies, I snarled, “You know Harley’s my wife?”
With his eyes still on me, he slowly nodded.
“And we have a baby girl.”
“I ain’t here to have a pissin’ contest over Harley.”
“Cash will you sign my tits?” one of the linebacker’s girlfriends slurred from the crowd, pushing against the guards to let her by.
He didn’t pay her any mind.
“Yeah, like you give two fucks about her.”
“Don’t go there, man.” He firmly shook his head. “You think I wanna be here for this bullshit? Dealin’ wit’ you in my fuckin’ face? You think this is the way I’d wanna see either of you, after all these years?”
“I don’t give a fuck what you think, or about your contract. You should have gotten fuckin’ sued rather than show your face on my fuckin’ turf. Besides, you can afford it. You’re Cash McGraw, right? Fuckin’ pussy.”
He stepped right into my face.
I didn’t hesitate in spewing, “Of all the songs you could sing, you picked that one? Who the fuck do you think you are?”
“It was in the contract. I had no say. But I don’t got time for your bullshit. I gotta plane to catch. Now get the fuck out of my way.”
“Well, you’re gonna make time. I’m not done with you yet.”
“Fuckin’ A!” he snapped. “I never lied to anyone ’bout what I wanted in life. Especially Harley. You think it was easy for me? For everyone, includin’ my parents, my father, turnin’ their backs on me ’cuz I didn’t go down the path they wanted.”
“Harley always believed in you, and don’t you ever fuckin’ forget that.”
He narrowed his eyes at me with remorse written all over his face. “What do ya want me to say, Quarterback? You won the girl. Is that what you need to hear?”
“Cash! Cash! Cash!” the room chanted.
Unable to hold it in any longer, I demanded, “Were you in love with her? Are you still?”
His jaw clenched as he tugged his hair back. “I see you haven’t changed, still insecure as always.”
“Answer my fuckin’ question, McGraw.”
“And what if I don’t? Huh? What are you gonna do?”
“I’ll beat it the fuck out of you.”
“Jackson, I wasn’t scared of you then, and I ain’t scared of you now. I won’t ask you again, get the fuck outta my way. I need to go.”
“She always deserved better than you,” I scoffed out, seething. “I never understood why she loved you so fuckin’ much. I still don’t. ’Cuz the man I see standing in front of me is nothing but a little bitch with his dick tucked in between his legs. You may have had her fooled back then, but now she knows what you’re really made of. Run, pussy boy, it’s what you do best.”
With that, I turned and left. However he stopped me dead in tracks.
Finally revealing, “Harley was ... is my best friend. I love her like a sister. I never meant to hurt her, and I have to live with that every day. You don’t know a damn thing ’bout me. What I go through knowin’ I turned my back on her to make my dreams come true. Except, the only life I’m livin’ is the hell created for myself, so fuck you.”
From the corner of my eye through the swarm of people, I saw Harley walking back into the venue.
Insistent on ending this, I threatened, “If you ever come near her again, I’ll break your fuckin’ hands. Try to play your precious guitar then. Do you understand me?” Meaning every last word, I turned to face him, but he was already gone. As if he’d never been there to begin with.
“Cash, don’t go!”
“We love you, Cash!”
“Cash! Cash! Cash!”
Trying to collect myself, I caught my bearings before walking back over to Harley. Her back was to me, and I instantly pulled her into my arms.
Needing to feel her warmth.
Her comfort.
Her love.
“Please don’t let him ruin our night,” I whispered in her ear.
“Jackson...”
“Please, Harley. I’m begging you.”
She spun herself in my arms, immediately pushing me away. Killing me inside.
“I can’t. Not right now,” she stressed. “I just want to go.” Her guard back in full effect. Like I didn’t just have her eating out of the palm of my hand.
Even after all these years, all this time.
That motherfucker...
Was still taking her away from me.
Chapter 20
<>Jackson<>
Then: Almost twenty-one-years-old
Teddy ran to me. Excited as could be when he heard me walk through the door of my apartment. His momma, on the other hand, was shaking her ass to the beat of the music blaring off the speakers of my stereo system.
She was cleaning the windows on my sliding glass doors. From top to bottom, swaying her luscious hips from side-to-side. Dropping her ass to the floor to get those hard to reach places.