Fighting for Esme: Brotherhood Protectors World (Team Falco Book 1) by Jen Talty & Brotherhood Protectors World

Author:Jen Talty & Brotherhood Protectors World [Talty, Jen & Protectors World, Brotherhood]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Twisted Page Press, LLC
Published: 2023-02-20T16:00:00+00:00

After turning on the blinker of Troy’s truck, Esme glanced in the rearview mirror. She eased onto the highway. “Not a bad ride,” she said.

“I like it.” Troy glanced up from his paperwork. “Thanks for driving. I wasn’t prepared for all the paperwork I’d have to deal with between my two jobs, but you’re giving me a chance to get caught up.”

“Not a problem. It gives me something to focus on after visiting Heather.” Esme hadn’t expected to feel anything toward her birth mother except maybe anger and disgust. Those two emotions lingered in her system, but they weren’t the driving force of her heart. No. She felt a sense of sadness and loss. Grief had overwhelmed her soul and she had nowhere to file it. “It always bothered my dad that I read her letters.”

“Why do you?”

Her father always told her that her questions would never be answered. That the letters were Heather's way of keeping Esme in her life in the hopes of having her feel pity so she’d give her a hand with the prison system and her lawyers. But with every letter came an ounce of hope. Deep down, Esme knew her dad was right, but she couldn’t let go of the need to understand and her father didn’t know what it was like to be her any more than she understood his pain.

“The first time I visited Heather, who claimed to love me, I asked her to explain how a mother could leave a child in a burning building to die. I told her I wanted to know how that made sense in the eyes of God. I got a lot of bullshit about demons, and I told her when she was ready to tell me the truth, she could write me.”

“You opened yourself up to a lot of communication.”

“That’s what my dad told me.” Esme checked her mirrors and noticed a fancy sport SUV racing up on her left about ten cars behind. Whoever was driving zipped to the right, crossed three lanes, and moved up two cars. She gripped the steering wheel with both hands. She had been driving SUVs her entire life, and she’d handled a fire engine just fine when she worked as a firefighter, but she was doing seventy miles an hour, in heavy traffic, with an asshole weaving in and out, heading right for her.

That made her uncomfortable.

“For a long time, I worried there was a piece of her inside me, so I looked for that in those letters.”

“Did you ever find it?” Troy set his hands on top of his papers and kept his gaze fixated on her, something she valued in his personality. It made her feel important and that wasn’t something she’d gotten from a lot of men in her life lately.

“No. And for that reason, I’m glad she wrote the letters and that I read them. It helped me see that there is more of my dad in me than any other human out there. Biology isn’t necessary.

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