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Back to You
Book: Back to You Read Online Free
Author: Natalie-Nicole Bates
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wedding guests—most of whom he didn’t know.
    As he stood alone near the golf course, the sound of a giggling female caught his attention. Caleb Smith with his impossible-to-miss red hair loomed over a young woman. Her face and body were obstructed from his view by Caleb’s body. All Nick could make out was a bare arm with a mostly-consumed bottle of vodka dangling from the hand. But it was apparent that the couple kissed passionately.
    At least someone here is having a good time, he thought.
    Suddenly there was a crash and the sound of glass breaking followed by more peals of female laughter that he recognized: Lynsey with a man who was way too old for her. Caleb had to be at least twenty-four, and maybe even older.
    Without a second thought about his bride, who was probably frantically looking for him inside, he stormed over to where the couple were once again lip-locked, their hands pawing each other’s bodies. He unceremoniously yanked Lynsey by the arm out of Caleb’s grip.
    “Hey!” The couple yelled simultaneously.
    “She’s just a kid, Caleb! She’s only sixteen!” He blurted, holding Lynsey tightly by the arm.
    Caleb grinned, casually lit a cigarette, and handed it to Lynsey before lighting another for himself. “She might be sixteen, but she doesn’t look it and she sure doesn’t act it. Besides, sixteen isn’t statutory; it’s just right.”
    “Come on, Lynsey, I’m taking you inside,” Nick insisted, trying to pull her away from Caleb, but she shook off his grasp and latched onto Caleb’s arm.
    When she turned to him, her brown eyes smoldered with rage. “Go back to your little virgin wife, Nicky. She’s waiting for you.”
    Lynsey turned to Caleb. “I’ll meet you at your car in five minutes. But first, see if you can smuggle a bottle or two of vodka from the bar…and wedding cake. Lots of wedding cake.”
    He bent down and kissed her hard, and she wobbled in her high heels. “I’ll be waiting for you, princess.” He winked.
    It took every ounce of willpower, not to mention the fact that he was at his own wedding, to keep from punching Caleb in the jaw, knock the cigarette out of Lynsey’s hand and give her a good shake.
    When Caleb disappeared back into the wedding reception, Nick grabbed her squarely by the shoulders and looked down at her. “I need to know if there is any chance at all that you’re pregnant.”
    “So, that’s what you’re worried about, Nicky.” She smiled wryly. “Well, rest assured that you didn’t get me pregnant. Even if you had, it doesn’t matter now. You’re married!”
    “If you’re pregnant, I’ll get out of the marriage. I’ll get an annulment.”
    “Nicky, just go to your wife and forget about me. We’re over. Now I’ve got a man waiting for me, and I guarantee that I’m going to have a much better night with him than you will with your fragile, frigid little virgin. I have to give you credit though, Nicky, two virgins within a span of two weeks. You’re quite the stud,” she said snidely.
    He looked down at the poor little drunken teenager with her pink lipstick smeared on her face by a man who was way too old and waiting to take advantage of her intoxicated state. Sadness consumed him. He had driven her to this excess.
    “Lynsey, let me find your mother so she can drive you home. Caleb is way too drunk to drive, and so are you.”
    “Go to hell, Nicky! That’s what you deserve, and I wish you nothing but the same unhappiness you’ve caused me. I won’t have to wish very hard, I’m sure.”
    With that, she turned, threw the cigarette to the ground, and staggered toward the parking lot where Caleb waited for her beside his red convertible.
    When Nick returned back to Unity after his two week honeymoon, Lynsey had accepted the scholarship in Lausanne, Switzerland and moved away.
    Over the year that followed, Suzy was terribly upset that her best friend abandoned her, but she continued to write faithfully to Lynsey. In return,
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