Letting Go (Mitchell Family #1)(54)
Author: Jennifer Foor

Ty got all serious. “Pretty much.”

“I aint havin’ this on my watch. All this over a damn girl? You both know better.” My uncle said. He shook his head and waited for me to say somethin’.

“She made her choice.” I stated while lookin’ to my cousin the whole time.

“Fuck you Colt. You stole her while I was down and out, you pu**y bitch.” Ty yelled.

“You weren’t even together. Stop your damn cryin’ and get over it. She picked the better man. Move the hell on with one of the little sluts you bedded while you were with your girlfriend.” He deserved everything I said. I just didn’t care about savin’ our relationship. I knew this was goin’ to happen. Everyone else might have been fooled by his calm reaction last night, but I wasn’t. He was still pissed and lashing out. That was what he did best.

“I said cut it out!” My uncle yelled. He shook his head and started pacing between us. “You two are the closest thing to brothers that you are ever goin’ to get.” He turned to look at me directly. “Colt, did you know your aunt used to be obsessed with your father?”

“He mentioned it before.” I admitted.

“We were thirteen. She would hang out with me to watch my brother. She told me she would never be with me. Finally, he got an older girl pregnant and crushed all of her dreams about them getting together. The rest is history. I know your situation is more involved, but I know what it is like to want something that you can’t have and have your heart broken while you wait.” He stood between us and looked at Ty. “I don’t know everything that you’ve done, but I saw you the other night with that blonde. Then I saw Van here soakin’ wet runnin’ back to the farm later that night. At first I thought she saw you and ran away upset, but yesterday mornin’ I watched Colt here, walkin’ home with wet clothes. I tried to wake him that mornin’ and he wasn’t asleep in his bed. So, I am just assumin’ you two were together. I don’t want to know what happened. It doesn’t even matter. I tried to keep you apart and obviously, you didn’t listen. Now if I didn’t need the help, I would send you packin’, but I do need it. This shit needs to be worked out. I can’t have this goin’ on.”

Ty and I just kept givin’ each other dirty looks. I tried to be nice to him and consider his feelins’, but it just wasn’t goin’ to do a bit of good. Ty was as stubborn as they come. “I will do whatever it takes, except let her go. I just can’t do that.”

Ty crossed his arms across his chest, while Savanna sighed and shook her head. Finally, she threw her hands in the air and started walking away from all of us. I should have been ashamed for fighting like I was a teenager, but I was sick of his ass.

“I’m done here!” I said to my uncle before running after Savanna.

Neither of them said anything as I walked away.

I found Savanna on the couch. I could tell she was pissed from the look on her face. Ironically, she looked sexier than I had ever seen. I sat down next to her, but she wouldn’t look at me. Like a little kid, I danced my face in front of her and made silly faces. She tried to hold in her laugh, but finally she broke.

“Stop doing that. I am trying to be mad at you.” She said as she pushed me away.

I didn’t know why, but I felt determined. My night’s agenda was to make Savanna smile and forget about the crappy day. I stood up and pulled off my shirt. She tried to ignore me by turning on the television, but I got up and started dancing in front of it. I flexed my chest like some wrestler would do. She kept attempting to look past me, even closing her eyes, as I got closer. When I could clearly see that she wasn’t giving in, I knelt down in front of her and kissed her hand.

“How are you doin’ Darlin?”

She moved her shoulders. “I actually think I should go home. I mean, I am just causing too much stress for your family right now. If I took myself out of the equation, maybe you and Ty could work things out.”

“Savanna, I will only be here for another month or so. I really don’t want to lose any time together, especially when you haven’t decided what you want to do yet.”

She stood up and walked away from me. “Would you just stop talking about it. I can’t take it anymore! I can’t take the yelling and the fighting. I feel awful inside about everything.”

I sat down on the couch and looked at her, really looked at her. “Savanna, I don’t understand. What are you sayin’?”

“Please just take me home Colt. I need time to think about everything. This is all just getting to be too much for me. I just need to breathe.”

Women can be impossible, every man will say that, but Savanna was makin’ absolutely no sense. One minute she was all about being with me no matter what, and the next she just wanted her space. I shook my head, got up, and grabbed my keys. “Let’s go then.”

She didn’t say a word as we walked out to the truck. I looked over and saw her focused on the ground. She never looked my way. She never shed a tear. She was just quiet.

We got a mile down the road and I just couldn’t take the silence. “Savanna, please talk to me Darlin’. I know things happened fast for us, but you make me feel better than anyone else ever has. I just want to take care of you.”

I noticed how far away she sat from me. The distance was killin’ me because usually she sat with her legs up against me. She looked out the window and refused to answer at first. When she finally did. It wasn’t what I expected.

She waited until we pulled up at her house. I got out to walk her to the door, but she stopped me halfway up the sidewalk. “I never expected to feel the way that you make me feel. I never even thought it was possible to love someone the way that I love you.” She paused for a moment. “Colt….Ty was right. I can’t leave with you. I am so sorry.”

I reached out for her, but she had already turned and ran into her house. I stood there just waitin’ for her to run back into my arms. To tell me that she was just joking. But, she never did.

I waited a good ten minutes, flabbergasted about what just happened. Whatever Ty said to her in that barn got her thinkin’. I wasn’t even sure, at this point, where we stood. I was sure about one thing. I had a little over a month to convince her to change her mind. I was not about to give up on her that easy. It would be a cold day in Hell before I walked away from Savanna Tate.