Falling For You_A Bragan University Novel by Gianna Gabriela

Author:Gianna Gabriela [Gabriela, Gianna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-11T04:00:00+00:00

I roll my eyes at his message. If he doesn’t want to pay for it, he doesn’t have to. It’s not like I use it anyway. All I do is talk to him and Mom on it…and well, Zoe too.

I’m about to call him back when I get a call from my mother.

“Hi, Mom,” I answer, resting back against the wall. Both parents in under five minutes—that can’t be a coincidence.

“Are you ignoring your father?” she asks.

“No.”

“Then why aren’t you answering his calls?”

“He called me once.”

“So you are ignoring him,” she says, like she’s caught me in a lie.

“No. I was just getting ready to call him back.”

“Why haven’t you?”

“Because you called me.”

“Honey, you know better than to ignore your father.”

He’s done a pretty good job of ignoring me. Why shouldn’t I do the same?

“I wasn’t ignoring him.”

“I’ll hang up now so you can call him back. Call me when you’re done.”

Of course my father would call my mother to complain about me not picking up. He has so many people at his beck and call that he expects the rest of us to just drop whatever we’re doing and answer him.

Begrudgingly, I dial him back. “Emma Lynn?” he says when he answers the phone.

I don’t bother greeting him. “Yes, sir?”

“Why didn’t you pick up?”

I roll my eyes at his question. “I hadn’t realized you called. I was going to—”

“I had to call your mother,” he says, interrupting me.

“—call you back.” I finish.

He mutters something under his breath. “How’s the tutoring going?”

“Fine.”

“What do you mean fine?”

“I mean I’ve met with him once. We went over a few of the things that will be in the exam. I gave him an assignment and we’ll be meeting again soon.”

“How soon?”

Every word he utters makes my skin crawl. “On Sunday, I believe.”

“Okay. How often are you getting together for meetings?” He ignores the fact that I told him I’ll be meeting with his football player on Christmas Day. I guess holidays don’t matter when football is always at the forefront of your mind.

“We’re meeting twice a week, like you said.”

“Maybe you should be meeting more often.”

“I don’t think that would be helpful.”

“I need him to play and that means he needs to pass this exam. I’ll reach out to him and tell him you’ll be meeting daily.”

“Daily?”

“Yes. Daily.”

“But—” I start to argue but realize it won’t work because he’s already hung up.

I lay back on my bed and look up at the ceiling. I’m frustrated to say the least, but I know it does me no good. When it comes to my father, there’s nothing I can do—not when he’s the reason I’m not paying for tuition, housing and books.

Not while my future, like his football players’, is in his hands.

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