Finding Peace by Emilia Finn

Author:Emilia Finn [Finn, Emilia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-09-14T16:00:00+00:00

Sixteen

Tina

Let’s get stupid

I’m an asshole. A complete, tool head, jerky asshole.

I can’t believe I treated Aiden that way. I know better. I know he’s not Sean. I also know he adores Evie.

He’s spent time with her, without me, at Kit’s house a million times, but I panicked. She wasn’t here when I woke up and neither was he, and I lost it.

I was ready to chase them down and take her back, then pack our bags and move to Yemen, but then he comes waltzing back up the stairs, handsome as hell with his sexy jaw and pretty eyes, laughing with my baby and carrying breakfast treats.

And I was an asshole.

It’s been three days since then.

I got a text from him that evening, simply saying, “I’m sorry. Call me when you want.”

That was it.

And I didn’t call him.

Because I’m an asshole.

I stayed hidden in our apartment, watching Frozen for the six millionth time with Evie, and pouting because I had the best sex of my damn life the night before, with possibly the best man I’d ever met in my life, a man who adores my daughter and is good to the core, and I was an asshole.

My eyes drag up to the ringing phone on my desk, the loud trill startling me out of my pity party. It’s Tuesday again and we’re back at work; I need to work to afford to buy more breakfast treats, since the only person who’s ever bought them for me with kind intentions was treated badly and probably won’t ever want to hang out again.

“Christina Cooper Studios.”

“Hey, it’s Izzy.”

I slump against my desk, dropping Christina and picking up non-professional Tina as I rest my head in my hands. “Oh, hey Iz, how are you?”

The days are mild again, just past the bitter cold of the winter, so while inside the studio, I’m wearing a racer back black dress, leaving my shoulders partially bare and as I lean over, my long hair tickles my skin.

“I’m good,” she answers easily. “How’ve you been?”

I’m still an asshole. A lonely, miserable asshole. “I’m good. Just working.”

“Busy?”

“Yeah, I’ve got a bit on. Which is good,” I add. “Pays the rent.”

“That is good. Listen--”

“How’d Jack go on the weekend?” I cut her off, remembering Jack’s fight. Evie and I didn’t go because I was too scared to see Aiden, and it was pretty much guaranteed he’d be there. I’m such a coward. And a jerk, because I know Evie wanted to go. To see Jack, yes, and to see the exciting fights, but mostly to see Aiden. I scared her the other day when I got mad at him. More proof that I’m an asshole.

“He smashed it,” she says excitedly. “Won in the first round.”

“Really? That’s so cool.”

“Yeah, he wasn’t screwing around,” Iz giggles. “Knocked him out, like forty seconds into it.”

“Wow.”

“Yeah, I think we’ll move him up to proper competition soon. We gotta get his applications in when Kit isn’t watching though,” she laughs, her happiness seeping through the phone and lifting me a little.

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