Still Can't Get Over You

Chapter 6

A WEEK LATER; Whispering Pines; North Carolina;
H's POV;

Staring at the dish of lasagna that Beth had just placed in to my hands; I didn't and couldn't see what her possible angle was. I knew that there had to be one; considering Shannon said that there was always an angle when it came to his best friend and my cousin's girlfriend.

From all accounts no one really liked her much, which I figured must be hard for her. Being with a man and not being able to get along with his friends and Family was bound to cause a lot of problems.

Maybe that was what this was about; bringing Dylan a dish of her favorite food in the hope that she could build a friendship. That had to be the angle; it would appear that was the only possible reason as to why she would go out of her way to cook something for someone that she didn't even know.

But even as I thought that; it didn't feel right. Something was up with this whole scenario and with no way of knowing if I was right I just looked at Beth and smiled.

"Thank you Beth; Dylan will love it; lasagna is her favorite," I said trying to remain neutral when I wanted to demand what kind of game she was playing. "Oh and Jeff's too if I remember correctly,"

Instantly his head was snapping up and glaring at me. Smiling I placed the dish down on the counter as he failed to realize that he had just given me the answer that I had been looking for.

Ever since Dylan came to live with me in LA; I had asked her about what had happened to make her leave Carolina; where she had been happy despite all the bullying that she had to endure, but hanging out with Shannon and his friends had been where she was the most comfortable and happy, she had thrown herself in to wrestling and she was good so when I told Carmine not to worry about it; I had meant it, Dylan could look after herself when it came to fighting in a ring and that was down to my cousins and Shannon.

My head turned to where Shannon was watching me completely clueless as to what was happening here, but in my eyes Jeff had just told me all that I needed to know. Dylan had refused to talk about it; saying that she had gotten fed up with being bullied and having no real friends of her own, but in a way I had always wondered if it had anything to do with my older cousin.

Dylan had always had the hugest crush on him, telling me that she felt lost when it came anything to do with Jeff, whenever he was around she felt weak; like she didn't know where she was or what she was doing.

It seemed that somehow Jeff felt a spark of something towards Dylan; had he always felt this way about her?

Or was it just because she was famous?

I looked at Shannon and just as I was trying to communicate to him silently, the phone had started to ring loudly. My man moved towards the machine and picked up the receiver obviously thinking that it was Dylan calling to let us know that she had arrived.

My man's little sister had confessed that she would hire a car to take her and her friends out here; when she had asked Shannon if she could take some friends with her he had whole heartedly agreed. I knew my man had missed his little sister considering they had always been so close, there had been far too many years that had passed where they hadn't talked and I knew that he wanted to make that up to her in anyway that he could.

Ever since the night in the Jacuzzi a week ago, we had gone out on dates, we kissed, we talked, we laughed and we enjoyed spending time with one another but at my own request nothing had happened between us yet; every night he would walk me to my bedroom door, give me a long passionate kiss that could literally render me incapable to talking let alone walking and then he would leave me alone to sleep in my own bed.