Teaser - The Appointment Chapter 15
From Chapter 15 - The Thorns - Jasper POV
"Basically, I didn’t really give Carlisle or momma a reason not to say no when I kicked up a fuss about going home. I thought I knew everything. Boy did I not. I could still hear my father’s gruff welcome home. If I closed my eyes and listened hard enough, I could still feel the sharp sting of his belt on my back. The burn of bourbon down my throat, the tickle of white powder in my nose that even now I had to put my coffee down to brush off.
All the things I’d done just because I could. To prove that I wasn’t the golden boy that my Father had made me out to be. James Whitlock’s heir. James Whitlock’s Varsity Baseball star wunderkind. James Whitlock’s perfect son. I was so very far from any of those labels that he or the society he ran in put on me - and I had tried and done everything to show that I wasn’t."
"Basically, I didn’t really give Carlisle or momma a reason not to say no when I kicked up a fuss about going home. I thought I knew everything. Boy did I not. I could still hear my father’s gruff welcome home. If I closed my eyes and listened hard enough, I could still feel the sharp sting of his belt on my back. The burn of bourbon down my throat, the tickle of white powder in my nose that even now I had to put my coffee down to brush off.
All the things I’d done just because I could. To prove that I wasn’t the golden boy that my Father had made me out to be. James Whitlock’s heir. James Whitlock’s Varsity Baseball star wunderkind. James Whitlock’s perfect son. I was so very far from any of those labels that he or the society he ran in put on me - and I had tried and done everything to show that I wasn’t."