DADDY ISSUES: A SINGLE DAD ROMANCE by Morris Liv

Author:Morris, Liv
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-17T16:00:00+00:00

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Lucas

I destroyed my family twenty years ago. I was a seventeen-year-old jackass who knew his good looks and money would open life’s doors and girls’ legs. I attended an elite boarding school in Massachusetts, hanging out with kids whose families were written about in history books.

Girls pushed each other out of the way to sleep with me. Guys wanted to be my friends, mostly to have a chance with the girls I didn’t take to bed. My attendance at a party determined its success or failure. I was the “it” guy on campus with my nose stuck up so high in the air, I didn’t know where I was going.

Funny thing about being on top of the mountain with the wind at your back? There’s only one place to go—down. And my fall resembled an avalanche as the ground I stood on disappeared under me.

During Christmas break my junior year in high school, my family stayed at our estate in Vermont. Snow covered the hundred-acre grounds. Restless from being cooped up in the house, I talked my parents into taking the snowmobiles out for a late afternoon ride.

My mother and I rode together on one. My father and sister paced behind us on theirs. I’d begged my mother to pull over and let me drive. I hated sitting in the back seat.

Finally, my persistence paid off and she relented, even though I hadn’t passed the required safety course. She warned me to keep my speed down and stay on the normal path.

I did neither. What happened after I took control would haunt me forever—has haunted me since that day.

I guided the snowmobile a few feet off the usual path, thinking it would still be safe. Then I saw a small mound of snow piled ahead of us. Instead of doing the smart thing and returning to the normal route, I accelerated the engine and aimed smack dab for it.

Right before we cruised over the mound, my mother screamed at me. The piercing sound of terror in her voice still visited me in my nightmares. I tried to turn the snowmobile, but it was too late. There was a jarring stop to our forward motion when we hit a tree stump buried in the snow. The crashing sound echoed in the quiet woods. We flew through the air in separate directions. I could still close my eyes and picture the scene in slow motion. The endless reel tortured my mind, but I deserved the punishment.

My father came upon the wreck seconds later, or so he told me. I was dazed from the crash and calling out for my mother, but she didn’t answer.

Twirling red lights from the ambulances filled the snow-covered grounds like a horror movie. Later in the night, after the hospital ran every possible test on me, a doctor released me to go home. He said I was lucky to land in the fresh-fallen snow. I asked him how my mother was, and his eyes had turned toward the floor.

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