Clarity by Nicole Dykes

Author:Nicole Dykes [Dykes, Nicole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-11-12T00:00:00+00:00

She has officially lost her fucking mind. I mean, I want to protect Bree more than anyone, but marriage? This has gotten out of control.

By the time we leave the social services office, it’s time to pick up Bree. After dropping off Blair’s car at the house, we swing by the school, but we’re a few minutes early.

“Talk to me.”

I look over at her, surprised she’s still trying. I don’t get it. “About what? Getting legally fucking married to each other?”

“Yes.” She looks down at her phone. “It says here Missouri has no wait time on a marriage license. We can go tomorrow, get our license, and be married by a judge before noon.”

Jesus fucking Christ. She holds up her phone, showing me the official website she has open. I just lean my head back and try to take some deep breaths.

Married. As in actually married.

That’s something I never planned to be. I look up in time to see Bree walking out toward the pickup line with both boys in tow. They’re always by her side, and it shouldn’t, but it fucking irks me.

“God, they’re cute.” I turn to look at Blair, annoyed by her statement.

“They’re twelve.”

She laughs. “I mean the three of them, best friends for life. And yeah, you can already tell they’re all going to be devastatingly beautiful.”

My hands clench tightly around the steering wheel as Bree and the boys, Fletcher and Rhett, stand beside the car, joking around. Even I have to admit, it’s good to see Bree being a kid with a smile on her face. These boys seem to be able to do that for her.

I roll down the window. “Come on. We can’t hold up the line.”

Blair shoots me an annoyed look. “Damn. Chill, Dad.”

“That’s what I’ll be if we go through with this.” I keep my voice low, and Blair just shrugs me off. Bree rolls her eyes at me from outside the car, waves goodbye to the boys, and climbs in the back seat.

“Why are you both here?”

My body tenses, but Blair turns around in her seat to look back at Bree. “We had a meeting with the social worker bitch.”

Bree visibly straightens in her seat, and I know she’s worried but is trying to remain calm on the outside. “What did she want?”

I hear the quivering in her voice even though she’s trying her best to hide it. I exit the school parking lot and glance at Blair, signaling for her to tell her.

Blair is still twisted in her seat looking back at her. “Mr. Herrington and his wife are moving forward with applying for adoption.”

I hear the sharp intake of air and the unmistakable fear in her eyes as I look through the rearview mirror. “What?”

“We aren’t going to let it happen,” I say definitively, “ever.”

“That’s right.” I can see Blair’s smile directed toward Bree from the corner of my eye as I drive back to Blair’s house. Her voice, however, is cautious. “How would you feel about us

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