by Kailin Gow
No guilt, no complex, no wanting to bottle up my feelings and lumping it all in until I could explode.
I’ve never acted so fast in my life. I got everything set for a wedding in minutes. Luis, Hector, my parents, Summer’s parents, Summer and Rachel were all informed and ready to go for tonight.
The only person I had been dreading to see, was Drew.
But we had to, and it was the last step in seeing if there were any regrets with Summer and Drew.
Summer and I met Drew at his place on top of the Donovan Dynamics Los Angeles building. We gave him 5 minutes before visiting him there.
He answered the door in his boxers, his hair rumpled, and lipstick marks all over him.
I glanced at Summer, and she looked down. One thing about Drew losing his memories about Summer, was that he had no idea how hurtful it looked when he paraded women around in front of her.
If he had deliberately broken up with Summer and was parading women in front of her with no regard to her feelings and dignity, I would have set him straight.
But here he was acting like some drunken frat boy and hanging out with some floozy, who came to the door all wrapped in plastic wrap. I avoided looking at her parts that should have been covered up but was fully on display.
“Oh hey Nat and Summer,” Drew said. “You did show up. Carmel and I were just finishing up for the night. Come in.”
We walked in and sat down on a cleaned part of the leather sofa, while Carmel disappeared into Drew’s room. She came back out wearing Summer’s red and white silk kimono.
Summer looked like she wanted to snatch it off of Carmel.
“So guys,” Drew asked. “What’s going on?”
“Drew,” I said, getting down to it. “Do you remember anything about Summer at all?”
Drew looked at Summer and smiled. “You are punking me, aren’t you? Summer’s your girlfriend. Had been for years. What kind of a question is that?”
I took out a photo of Summer with Drew, also the invitation I received to attend their wedding. I showed it to Drew. “Remember this? You should. You and Summer were engaged. You were about to get married to her. And the reason why her clothes are here is because she stayed with you all the time. You two were inseparable.”
Drew’s face was frozen as he touched the wedding invitation over and over again. He shook his head. “I don’t recall being with Summer.”
“You loved her so much, Drew, you fought off her rapist attacker, you switched schools to attend USC to be with her…” I wished I could stop, but I had to be fair and let Drew have this last fighting chance to be with Summer, if she choose.
Drew got up and went over to Carmel. He handed her her clothes and said, “I think it’s time you went home.”
“What?” Carmel asked. “So it was true about you and this woman?”
Drew said, “Whether it is or not, I don’t want you here.”
Carmel swore, grabbed her clothes, throwing off Summer’s kimono, and slammed the door on her way out.
“Summer,” Drew said. “I remember having a crush on you for so long when we were kids. But you always wanted Nat. I wished I could remember how we got to being engaged, but I’m drawing a blank. I really don’t remember. But what it’s worth, I am so sorry if I broke your heart, and we are no longer together.”
I looked at Drew closely. He really didn’t remember anything.
Perhaps it was for the best.
Drew got up and began clearing up things around his place. He looked confused, bewildered, and a bit sad.
“Do you want to go through with the wedding?” I asked Summer. There was the possibility Summer would go back to Drew.
Summer turned to Drew, “Drew, I analyzed your checkup, and I think you should know you’re fine. Your medication isn’t causing the blackouts. But I think you need to take a vacation. Stop stressing yourself. I think,” she turned away for a second and swallowed. “You need to find someone who would help you grow, but at a pace you’re comfortable with, and in a way you could feel like yourself. With us, in a way, we were too different, and I wanted you to be more like, well, Nat. You became like him, but it was eating you up. Until you needed to escape. I don’t ever want to put you in that position again, no matter how much I loved you. You should be free to be yourself. You should be free to love again, as I have fallen again back in love with Nat.”
“Drew,” I said, patting his shoulder. “I’d like to say I’m sorry, but I’m not. You’ve had your chance with Summer, and now it’s mine. We’d like you to come to the wedding with us on the jet, but you are fine to decline.”
I looked at Summer and then Drew.
Drew stood up and said, “I’ll get my things. I wouldn’t miss my brother and his woman’s wedding for anything. Let bygones be bygones, I say.”
So that was that, and Drew came with us on our way to the compound where everyone had gathered to join us.
Epilogue
Rachel
Summer and Nat had the most beautiful and elegant wedding ever planned within a couple of hours. I couldn’t have done a better job than Nat. Once again, he had proven to be amazing at anything and everything. Like Summer. She really was Nat’s equal. She never had to baby him like she did Drew. She never had to second guess him and his fidelity.
Drew, as much as I loved him as my brother, was a handful. But still had captured Summer’s heart. She was serious about marrying him. She wouldn’t have chosen him before if she didn’t.
Summer was the type of woman who put everything into a relationship. She gave it her all, and then some. She also gave whatever she was focused on her all, like her career and her legacy for Aunt Sookie. She was my role model, but she was also the woman guys fell for. I was just glad it wasn’t Astor Fairway. I still have hopes for him noticing me.
But then there was Luis now who surprises me everytime we get together.
Teddy, whom I love to break and seduce. There was so much to him than him being a statue. I love breaking that discipline.
Not to mention all the other men at the compound and outside. I was like the female version of Drew, and in a way, I was glad Summer ended up with Nat. Drew was my twin, and sharing the same genes and physical attributes, we were driven, by sex, by adrenaline, by challenges, and people saying “we could not” to us.
I was a Donovan, by blood, and being a Donovan, I knew Drew was struggling to stay with Summer after 10 years, while he had women after women, opportunities after opportunities thrown at him.
He would cry over Summer for a good while, I was sure when he realized what he gave up. But he would be back on the market again, sampling everything he could.
I wouldn’t cry over Drew Donovan losing Summer to Nat. He was a Donovan, and like our father, we have a hard time staying still.
The infidelity gene? I hope there wasn’t something like that, but maybe if I was attesting to it. I couldn’t be committed to one man or another. I definitely didn’t want that, and I definitely wanted to be just as respected for me, for my role as an owner and partner at Donovan Dynamics, and for my career as an actress.
I know Nat disapproved of what I was doing at the compound. Drew would too, although he would be just like me if this place was filled with good-looking hot girls for the taking.
But I had found some valuable information while partaking in the taking of the hottest single physically fit men on the planet. The spy whom Nat wanted to trap on his compound was not at the compound when Nat was gone with Summer on their mission.
The spy was right there with them. And I have a mission of my own to find out who.
Rachel, Drew, and the Donovan’s stories continues in Summer’s Landings Standalone Novels; a spin-off of the Loving Summer Series
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