Dirty Talker: A Single Dads Club Romance by Piper Rayne

Author:Piper Rayne [Rayne, Piper]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-06-10T18:30:00+00:00

15

Dane

“Thanks for coming.” I pull my car away from the curb.

“I can’t believe you still drive around in this car.” Sara touches the hood and glances back to the backseat. “He rides in the back?”

I look at the empty cup from Double D’s and his paper hat from the other night. “Yeah.”

“Thanks for the pictures.” She crosses her legs and while she’s fidgeting, I try to give her the once over, not really sure what she’s up to these days.

“Well, I figure a mother would want to know.” There’s a little more bite in my voice than I intended.

“Who’d figure a screw up like me could make such an attractive kid?”

She asks the question, but I know she’s not looking for answers. Sara’s never been a real mom, and she seemed to have sensed that after a short time. A year to be exact. Toby woke up on his first birthday without a mom to care for him.

We drive down the road and I could ask what’s been going on in her life. Where she’s been, who she’s been with, does she have any money, how she got here. But the truth is, I had to leave Sara to her own demise years ago. I couldn’t save her and that was just the hard truth.

“Happy Daze looks good. You’ve made a success out of it after all these years.”

“Thank you. Yeah, had to fight tooth and nail for every change, but it was worth it.”

“Do you ever wonder what it’d be like if I’d stayed? What your life would be like?” she asks the same question I thought of a lot early on in Toby’s life. But only because of the insecurity that plagued me when I worried I couldn’t be the father he deserved. Now, years later, I can’t imagine my life any other way. Without Toby, it’s nothing.

I shrug. “Doesn’t everyone wonder about decisions in their life?”

“I look at other moms and I think to myself, why can’t I be like them? What’s wrong with me that I just can’t stay in Climax Cove and take care of my kid? Or maybe I could’ve been one of those moms who drift around with their kid. I could have taken Toby with me.”

“To sleazy motels and drug houses? Have him help you panhandle for food?” The bitterness in my tone can’t be disguised as anything different.

The one unselfish thing Sara ever did was leave Toby behind. Let him have a normal childhood back in the same town she grew up in. Yeah, she was always the small-town girl who couldn’t break out fast enough. I’m not sure when she transformed into that person. High school, junior high, or whether she was born like that, but I always remember her wanting out.

“When you put it that way...” she doesn’t finish because we both know Sara can’t care for herself let alone a child. “I’m afraid he’ll hate me.”

“I’ll make sure he doesn’t hate you, but I can’t say he won’t come looking when he gets older.

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