«Momma said there'd be boys like you. Tearing my heart in two, doing what you do best. Taking me for a ride, telling me pretty little lies. But with you, I can't resist.»
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His teammates patted him on the back or head as some sort of congratulations gesture. He understood they weren't exactly doing that because he has gotten his head out of his ass and finally managed to go back to his pre-Jenna training mood. Yeah, they were definitely not doing it for that.
"Man, now that you're officially divorced you can get back in the market for those who can't." Alvaro joked. Getting a few whistles from the other guys. "Not me though, happily married." He said, and some of his teammates snorted. Alvaro threw an empty water bottle at Marcos Alonso, who apparently retorted with a joke to Alvaro's comment in Spanish. Eden chuckled, not understanding what was going on but still getting the comeback.
He could feel David Luiz side-eying him, so he glanced back. "Yeah, let's just hope he doesn't do anything stupid." And Eden just knew, he just knew, the Brazilian had the 'like Jenna' on the tip of his tongue. It was projecting itself through his eyes.
"Define stupid." Eden answered back, just with the mere purpose to piss him off.
David Luiz rolled his eyes. "You know stupid." He indeed knew stupid.
"I feel like stupid has a name." William stopped next to Eden and eyed both David Luiz and Eden repeatedly for a few seconds.
Stupid definitely had a name. And a face. And she didn't want to see him anywhere near her for the rest of her life. So yeah, it was definitely a stupid move.
After their conversation at the park (it may have been his fault to sit next to her when he spotted Jenna, but the fact that they were in the same park was completely accidental, though he decided to keep that encounter to himself) he understood that those small and bitter exchanges going on between them since he discovered she was back in London weren't helping any of them.
Both times ended with her leaving after pretty much telling him he was the biggest asshole in the world (in a longer way), and both times also made him realize he would never get over her, which obviously was bad.
"I'm not going to do anything stupid." He told them, even though that was exactly what he was going to do.
Something stupid. And why was that? Because as soon as he left the training building, he knew exactly where he was going to go, and it was not his house.
If the universe was still by his side, Jenna Lavryn still lived in the same house she used to live in five years ago. He wouldn't stalk her, because that was illegal and totally weird, but he wanted to be the one looking for her. The two times they've met, it had been technically accidental, he approached her both times when he saw her but it's not like he had planned to find her in London. Now he wanted to do it. He needed to talk with her, for real this time. Eden wanted to hear every single thing she kept for herself, but he wanted to be the one to seek for it.
So he drove to where he remembered he had dropped off her so many times five years ago. The house still looked like he last saw it, except its painting was wearing off. Jenna's family was not crazy rich, but she explained him her mother had a very good job back she was alive, and her father managing to position himself where he was with music helped a lot.
Eden parked in front of the house and sighed in relief as soon as he read the plaque in the wall next to the main gate.
Lavryn Family.
