Betrayed
Chapter 36
Garrett’s POV
The following Monday, end of April:
I have waited almost three years for Addison to contact me. I was waiting for her to send me a message, call me, text me, or tell me she was safe. Her birthday was in less than two weeks, and I needed to find her. I have looked for and asked around at each college we played at with
no success. No one seems to know where she is. No one has even heard of her. I don’t have
the money to pay for a private investigator, not just yet, but I will soon.
My dream had been achieved. I signed with a team, and Dad and Mom were proud of me. All I have to do now is take my finals. I am now officially a member of a team on the East Coast. I am exhilarated that my dream is now a reality. The weird part is that I know that if Addison
were here with me, it would feel so much better. She was always my biggest supporter. Cheering me on and telling me that one day I would be playing in front of a stadium of fans
cheering me on.
It is frustrating to learn that the dream I have always carried with me didn’t make me as happy as I thought it would. I always thought my greatest goal was to become a famous quarterback, to be respected and adored by the fans, and to lead my team to victory. Yet now that it is here, it doesn’t seem to matter as much. Without Addison in my life, it was no longer
the same dream.
It hits me that without her, life is good, but it isn’t great. I am so frustrated right now. Where the hell is she? I have turned down hundreds of girls here. They were hot and willing to do anything I asked, but I didn’t want them. They don’t mean the same thing that Addison does to me. She was not just a beautiful girl. She was my girl. I am starting to get weaker on the whole no dating or having casual s*x anymore. The frat house is alive with the sounds of my teammates having their fun every night. There is a revolving door of girls who want to get their claws into a player before he goes pro.
But I didn’t want a girl right now, especially one like that. I wanted a forever kind of girl, and that would always be Addison. The fact that I couldn’t find her to tell her that was hard, Addison was everything I ever wanted. She was intelligent, kind, and sarcastic. We could talk about anything and everything together. There were no awkward pauses between us. We didn’t have to try because we were in sync. Things between us always went smoothly.
I closed my eyes and tried to calm myself as my c**k got hard at the thought of her. I have
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had to deal with this issue alone for a while now. Almost three years, and I was tired of it. I had been doing what I needed to. I know she loved me. Why hasn’t she come back to me? She could have reached out to my parents at any time. Her house was being rented out, but it was hard to go home. I missed her so much. Plus, things around my house are different now.
My parents have been frustrated and low–key angry at me ever since Addison left. They may not say it to my face, but I can feel the change between us now. They have treated me, just me, much differently since about three months after she left. I didn’t know why things changed between us, and they were fine, leaving me in the dark. It didn’t escape my notice that this was the same thing I did to Addison when I shut her out.
I was always glad when I could return to college. It was easier to hang out and drink with my friends than to see the disappointment in my parent’s eyes every time they looked at me. I didn’t like to see the amount of damage that I had caused. I was hoping that they would want to talk to me about it. I could see on several occasions when Dad was about to speak to me, man–to–man, but my mother stopped him. I didn’t know what was happening, but I figured they would eventually talk to me about it if it were serious enough.
Each time I left to go back to college, I would always tell them the same thing after I hugged them goodbye. “If Addison calls, give her my number. Tell her how sorry I am. I thought I was doing the right thing by trying to get proof that Tammy was behind the video. I messed up. Tell her I love her,” I have it memorized by heart now, but I meant every word. I just wanted her
back.
I still held out hope that she would return to me one day. I knew why she was mad. Believe me, I knew. My mother had never been as angry as the day she confronted me about allowing Tammy to hang all over me. That, to Addison, made it look like I had used and then thrown her
away. She didn’t forget the dig of, “If it were me, I wouldn’t take you back, Garrett. You betrayed her trust in the worst way after she gave you another chance. I don’t know if you can earn
another chance.”
I would have been angrier with Mom if she hadn’t burst out crying after she said it. She was upset because she always wanted Addison to be her daughter–in–law. Addison’s mother and mine had dreamed of our families being tied together by marriage. I could hear her telling Dad how disappointed Ana would be to know what I had done to Addison. That day, she cried for a while, but I don’t think she ever got over it. These days, I can see it all over her face. The anger and pain are still there in equal measure.
The only thing she has been proud of me for is that I stopped sleeping around. She was glad that I was serious about waiting for Addison. I am more focused on college, getting better grades, and killing it on the field. That is until I saw the article about Addison. That day,
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everything changed for me.
It was raining pretty hard, so I drove to my tutor. Finals were coming, and I needed help with math. We always met in the common area to study at his fraternity. It’s much quieter there than at my fraternity. Last month had been super busy. During spring break, I had flown out to
meet with two teams about the upcoming draft, so I hadn’t had time to go home to visit.
I doubt any of my family members have seen the magazine yet. I know that if Valerie had seen
it, she would have told me. My parents thought that Addison was a sweetheart. Hell, I’d
believed it, too. I have been a fool. I doubt my mother had seen it. I am sure that she would
have told me if she had. The magazine was over two months old, and the picture was noted
as being taken around the middle of February. It was lying haphazardly on the coffee table
among the other magazines.
It was a gossip rag, and I never read them, but the cover caught my eye. Correction, it was
Addison’s distinctive hair color that captured my eye. My heart caught in my throat as I looked
at the caption asking who the mystery woman was with Evan Williams. It wasn’t the fact that
she was in the photo looking gorgeous. It was the fact that she was holding a small child in
her arms. I couldn’t tell how old the child was or if it was a boy or a girl she was keeping safe.
But she was trying to protect this child from the cameras.
What hurt me so much was that Evan protected her from the paparazzi. His jacket had been
thrown over to protect the child’s identity. They looked completely in sync as they ran towards
his vehicle. His vehicle, which had a child’s booster seat, already set up in the back seat. My
vision blurred as I realized that I had been played a fool. Here I am, having changed for her,
and for what? She had already clearly moved on.
A profound pain hit me and almost drove me to my knees. How could she do this to me? I thought she loved me. She told me she loved me. I thought that she was just angry with me about Tammy. I thought she would eventually talk to me about it. I thought she would be my wife, but here she is, playing house with one of the rich bachelors in Dallas. I guess Karma is returned to punish me for not telling Addison what I was doing.
Well, I won’t be waiting for her a minute longer. I was a sucker for her love, but that is over and done with now. I have no reason to be on the straight and narrow anymore. I will be out to get mine and to hell with having another relationship. If I can’t have Addison, I don’t want to get married. I was making a plan as my tutor approached me, motioning to a quiet corner for him.
to help me out.
“Not today. I will call you later,” I told him as I passed him. I scoffed as I thought about everything I had done, all for her, like having male tutors, avoiding parties, and staying locked in my room. I had learned that the hard way, as on more than one occasion, I had been
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surprised by a girl entering my room uninvited.
I felt so stupid. I have been doing this for three long years. Yet, this was my reward? Well, not anymore. There were always girls hanging out in the main area of our frat house. The moment I entered, three of them perked up. I could see hope in their eyes. They had chased me before and didn’t want to take no for an answer. Well, I won’t be telling them anymore. I had stopped at a drugstore on the way back. I had everything I needed for a month.
I barely had to nod, motioning towards the upstairs, when two of the three girls jumped up and ran up the stairs. I didn’t mean for them both to head up, but what the hell? This was a fantasy of mine anyway, so I headed up behind them. Their skirts were so short I could see their thongs as I followed them up the stairs. These girls were not my first choice, but they would do in a pinch. They still have a fresh and innocent look about them.
When we got to my room, I saw that the innocent act was just that, an act. They were happy to work together to please me but then got furious when I kicked them out after we were done. Doing that left a bad taste in my mouth, but I was angry. I wanted to hurt Addison, but hell, she wouldn’t even know I had done it, let alone that I had waited on her for so long.
I was done being a sucker. I went down to grab some beers and headed back to my room. From now on, I was out to do whatever I wanted. To hell with Addison. She didn’t wait for or want to come back to me. I won’t be waiting on her anymore, either.
