Fire & Ice by Eve Langlais

Author:Eve Langlais [Fire & Ice]
Language: nld
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Romance
Published: 2005-06-28T23:11:52+00:00

Fire and Ice by Eve Langlais

“You’re a drug dealer?” Marissa could only stare at him. Oh my God, but he seems so nice. Not like those addicts she saw wandering the streets of town, begging for change to get another fix.

“Was. I don’t go near drugs now. Back then, though, I was living the high life—literally. And then I got caught. I spent almost two years in jail, and since my release over a year ago, I’ve been drug and alcohol free.

My parole officer even makes sure of that, giving me random blood tests.”

“But you don’t act like a convict.”

“And how does a convict act?” Dirk retorted. “Never mind—having seen some of the guys in the joint, I can kind of see where you’re coming from. Honestly, though, being in jail was the best thing that could have happened to me. Not being around the drugs and alcohol, not to mention separated from my buddies, I had a chance to look at my life and realize I didn’t like it so much.”

“But what about the boys and their mother?”

“Ah yes, Carla. Well, see, Carla was a part of the gang. It’s how we hooked up. It’s a wonder the boys ended up normal, what with the drugs we both did. Not to mention she hit the bottle pretty hard while pregnant.

When I went to jail, she couldn’t handle the boys alone, not that I was much help back then. She ditched them with my mom and took off with some guy in the gang who decided to run from the cops instead of going to jail.”

“But how could she leave them?” Marissa whispered. “They would have been just babies.”

“Oh, leave them she did,” said Dirk grimly. “And she never looked back. Not one card, phone call, nothing. My poor mom, she had her hands full when she first got them. We hadn’t exactly been exemplary parents.

She brought them to visit me every weekend even though I begged her not to, I was so embarrassed. I didn’t want them to see their dad locked up like some animal. But now I’m glad she did, because it made me realize I had to change my life. That the boys deserved something better.

Hell, I deserved better. When they released me I went to live with my mom and the boys for a while. She taught me how to take care of them, and they learned to get to know me. The real man, not the drunken, 76

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