Drilled: (Hard 'n Dirty Book 7) by Ava Sinclair

Author:Ava Sinclair [Sinclair, Ava]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-09-12T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Iris

Am I being unfair to give Cal hope for a future together? I was honest when I told him no man has ever made me feel the way he does, and I’m not talking about the sex. Sitting cradled in his lap while he spun a vision of home and family made me yearn for a world I can’t have unless I give up mine.

I know how controlling my father is. He’s holding my trust fund over my head, and the better part of me thinks I could walk away from it and be the ordinary woman I fancied I could be, one who sits on the front porch of a farmhouse watching her working class husband push their kids on the tire swing.

But giving up my life is easier said than done; that pretty domestic vision would come with a price. There would be checkbooks to balance, bills to pay. I’d have to go from not looking at price tags to clipping coupons. My education would be no guarantee of a good income. Bachelor’s degrees in communication are a dime a dozen. I never thought about going to grad school. My trust fund made additional schooling something I could afford to do on my own timeline.

If I’d have been a son, my father would have pushed me into business school so I could help him run the business. But he’s got a very archaic view of women and groomed me to be a spoiled little rich girl who’d stay out of sight and out of mind until she married some acceptable man.

It’s silly to think of a life with Cal. I tell myself that as I drive back to the hotel, dogged by the guilt that given my situation, he’s is the equivalent of a recreational drug I’m doing over the summer. Cal gives me pleasure, an emotional high. But there’s no practical way it could work. My racist father would not just try to ruin my life, he’d try to ruin Cal’s, too.

“Oh, god…” I speak the words into the empty interior of the car, wondering how I’ve managed to get myself into such a hot mess. I could call him. I could tell him that we have to stop seeing each other, that this can’t go anywhere. But for the life of me, I can’t bring myself to pick up the phone. When it rings just as I pull into the hotel parking lot, I startle, half hoping it’s his number flashing on the screen. But it’s not Cal’s number. It’s my father’s number. I don’t want to answer, but I do.

“Hi, Daddy.”

“Iris, where the hell have you been? Rita said you were coming back to the hotel to work. I’ve been trying to call you for the last few hours. When I couldn’t get you I got worried and came over.”

I feel a sudden chill. “You’re here?”

“Yeah, I’m here. Where are you?”

“I just pulled in, Daddy.”

“I’m in the lobby. Come on in.”

It’s an order. He clicks off.

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