Controlled Burn by Stacey Shannon

Author:Stacey, Shannon [Stacey, Shannon]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-11-24T06:00:00+00:00

She’d be lying if she said her mom abandoning her when she was little didn’t hurt. Usually it was a dull, barely there ache. But sometimes it was a gaping wound she knew would never heal. Even though she’d learned with age—and through multiple failed marriages on her father’s part—to accept that her mother had probably been leaving her father and not just her, she’d always wondered why she hadn’t fought for her. Even if she couldn’t handle full custody, she could have stuck around for visitations.

As with his own parents, Jessica’s mother wasn’t a topic her father wanted to discuss. He’d claimed she was unstable and they were better off without her. But he’d said a lot of bad things about her grandparents, too, and now she knew better. Or at the very least, they weren’t the same people they’d been while raising their son. So maybe her dad was wrong about her mom, too.

The big difference, as far as Jessica was concerned, was simple. Joe and Marie hadn’t fought to see her because they hadn’t known she existed. Her mother had known. She’d made a conscious choice to remove herself from Jessica’s life, and no amount of therapy or logical pep talks could ever make her understand.

“You okay?”

She jumped at the sound of Rick’s voice, since she hadn’t heard his bedroom door open. “What?”

“You look lost in space, and that’s not a happy expression.”

“I was just looking at your family pictures. You all look really happy. Is that your brother’s boat?”

“It’s my dad’s, actually. But my brother uses it more than anybody else, I guess.”

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