Always in My Heart by Kayla Perrin

Author:Kayla Perrin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kimani Press
Published: 2012-12-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

“Well, it’s good to know you’re alive.”

Nigel, who had just wandered into the kitchen, met Callie’s eyes. He had gone to his favorite bar and chilled with some other cops and Marshall, then crashed at Marshall’s place for the remainder of the night. The look on Callie’s face said she thought he had spent the night in a brothel.

“I hung out with some cops at a local bar,” Nigel said by way of explanation, wondering why he had to explain himself. He had been gone from the house for one night. Callie had been gone for ten years.

Then he went over to Kwame, who sat at the kitchen table with a plate of scrambled eggs and toast in front of him, and put an arm around him from behind. “Morning, son.”

Kwame looked up at him, his smile as bright as the sun. “Morning, Dad.”

Callie withdrew two coffee mugs from the cupboard. She placed them on the counter audibly, and Nigel got the sense that she was trying to get his attention.

“I hope you don’t mind that I got up and started making breakfast,” she said. “We couldn’t wait on you forever.”

Nigel sauntered over to Callie, suppressing a smile. “Sounds to me like you missed me last night,” he couldn’t resist saying.

The look she leveled on him was lethal. “I was simply worried that something may have happened to you,” she said in a lowered voice.

Or had she spent hours remembering their kiss, as he had?

That was a road Nigel didn’t want to go down, even if the heat he’d felt as he had kissed Callie last night was more intense than anything else he’d experienced.

Except, of course, for the last time he’d kissed her… .

Not going there, Nigel told himself. So he said something certain to diffuse any sexual tension. “I was gone for one night. You were gone for ten years.”

Callie’s eyes widened at the comment, then narrowed.

“What?” Nigel went on. “You didn’t think I worried about you?”

Callie said nothing, but he could tell by the expression on her face that he’d made his point.

“Mom thought you went to see your girlfriend,” Kwame chimed in.

Callie’s eyes bulged in mortification. “Kwame!”

“What?” Kwame asked innocently. “When I asked where Dad was, you said you thought he went out to see his girlfriend.”

“I—I said maybe,” Callie sputtered. She didn’t meet Nigel’s gaze.

So she cared. That knowledge caused an odd stirring sensation in Nigel’s gut.

“Help yourself to coffee, and the rest of the scrambled eggs,” Callie told him.

“Aren’t you going to eat?” Nigel asked.

“I’m fine with the coffee,” she said, her tone clipped. She still didn’t meet his gaze.

Oh yeah, she cared. That was clear to Nigel.

“What are we gonna do today, Dad?” Kwame asked.

“You’re going to head back home, get showered, spend some time with your aunts,” Callie interjected. “I’m sure your father has things to do.

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