Broken Fairytales Series Box Set (Broken Fairytales, Buried Castles, Shattered Crowns) by Monica Alexander

Author:Monica Alexander
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, love, beach, music, broken fairytales, forcing gravity, work of art
Publisher: Monica Alexander

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Zack

“She hates me,” I announced when I walked into the game room at my dad’s house. “It’s over. I’m done. I’m going to bed.”

My dad’s wife, Sierra, who was a bit of a drama queen in emotional situations, looked up in shock. “Oh no!” she said, her hand flying to her mouth. “What happened?”

She was sitting with Jen on the leather couch while my dad played pool with Andrew. I wasn’t sure where Derrick was but assumed he’d gone out with some of the girls he’d met at the show, as was his usual MO. No matter, I wasn’t in the mood for company. My plan was to make my announcement and go straight to bed. I really wanted a drink, but I’d been sober for two months, and I wasn’t going to change that now.

Jen shook her head at Sierra. She knew me well enough to know that I wasn’t about to sit on the couch with them and open up about my feelings. I watched Sierra make a face at my dad that said, ‘Do something’, but my dad just shrugged. He was even less of a feelings guy than me.

“Sorry, man,” Andrew said, leaning on his pool stick. He looked back at Jen who was eying me sympathetically.

I realized then that all four of them were just watching me, looks of pity written all over their faces. They knew I’d gone out on a limb that night, dedicating Emily’s favorite song to her, but in the end it hadn’t been enough, and now they felt bad for me.

Well, fuck that. I didn’t need their pity. Emily was just a girl. She didn’t want me. Big deal. I’d get over her.

Without saying a word, I turned and left the room, heading down to the second floor of my dad’s monstrosity of a house. Why he and Sierra needed all that room was beyond me.

Before ducking into the guest room I was staying in, I paused outside Lily’s room. We didn’t make it to my dad’s house all that often, but since he had nine gazillion bedrooms, he’d given one to her. Sierra had happily decorated it with lady bugs and white furniture. I had a feeling she’d been hoping my dad would agree to have another child, and sort of had an ‘if you build it they will come’ mentality, but so far he hadn’t caved. He hadn’t been a great father to begin with, so I was pretty sure he wasn’t all that excited about reliving the experience.

I slowly opened the door and could see through the faint glow of the pink nightlight that Lily was awake. She was sitting up in her crib, talking nonsense to her favorite white teddy bear. It made me smile.

No matter how shitty I was feeling, Lily could always make it better. It was why I’d stopped by to see her. Therapy via a twenty-one month old.

“Daddy!” she said, as soon as she saw me.

“Lily, what are you doing up?

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