Appeal to You (A Beyond the Cove Novel Book 3) by Jaclyn Quinn

Author:Jaclyn Quinn [Quinn, Jaclyn]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2019-07-29T16:00:00+00:00

“Phyllis, did the information packet from FAFS get here?” Avery asked his office assistant.

Phyllis smiled. “Trust me…the second the Foster and Adoption packet comes, it’ll be in your hand.”

Avery hung his head and laughed, pressing his thumb and forefinger into the inner corners of his tired eyes. “Sorry. I guess I’m just anxious.”

Her face softened. “I know you are.”

He’d had a lot of time to think over the last few days, especially with Ryder not returning his calls or texts for the past week. He’d had a feeling, before they’d even crossed that line, that he’d be the one getting hurt in all this. And even though he had gotten hurt, it wasn’t in the way he’d thought it would be. Knowing Ryder was going through shit Avery couldn’t even begin to understand didn’t make it any easier, though. He was being shut out, and it hurt like hell. Maybe Ryder was right; maybe Avery wanted him to be someone he just wasn’t.

So, after some thinking and weighing the pros and cons, he’d decided to focus on something he could do to help make a difference. Single people became foster parents all the time, so why couldn’t he? The thought had rolled around in his head until he’d finally talked to Nina and Stan about it. He knew that road hadn’t been easy for them, but he could also see how Chris was lucky to have a safe place to stay. Ryder had never had that. And there go my thoughts again; always on Ryder lately.

Avery glanced out his office door, across the open reception area, to the closed door on the other side. The other office was identical to his; it was what they’d liked about this building when he and Kevin had first started their own practice. Avery handled the family law side of it, and Kevin had taken on business-related and small claims cases. Now, Kevin’s office sat empty and served as a painful reminder that he was gone.

Seemed pretty hypocritical for Avery to think that Ryder needed to let go of the things that haunted him, when Avery still hadn’t been able to find a new law partner. It wasn’t nearly the same thing, but he hadn’t forced himself to move on, either.

Avery glanced at the framed picture on his wall. It was of the day he and Kevin had first signed the lease for this place, and they both had the biggest smiles on their faces. They’d been unstoppable back then, having no idea what would happen years later. Avery took a deep, shuddering breath and shifted his eyes to the calendar on his desk. Sunday would be one year that Kevin and Maggie were gone. The pain had lessened over the last year, but he didn’t think it would ever truly go away.

Over the last week, he’d struggled with what he should do about Ryder. The boys were Jake and Eli’s now, and Ryder was one of their best friends. For the first time in a long time, Avery was wondering if he belonged.

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