First Comes Love (New Castle Book 1) by Lydia Michaels

Author:Lydia Michaels [Michaels, Lydia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-02-02T00:00:00+00:00

Kat woke up on time, but was still moving at a slugs pace. Her period arrived in the middle of the night and, of course, she was almost out of tampons. Still out of cereal, she had to make pancakes again. If she didn’t get to the market soon, she was going to run out of pancake mix as well. Slow, but steady, she dressed for work and got Mia ready for the day.

After loading Mia into the car and climbing behind the wheel, she started the car and backed out of the driveway. When she put the car in drive, it died.

I forgot to get fucking gas!

The steering wheel smacked against her forehead. Complete defeat swamped her, extinguishing her last flicker of forced enthusiasm. She could not do another day like the day before. Keeping her head on the wheel, she growled and began to cry.

“Momma?” Mia’s small voice came from the backseat.

“What, baby?” Kat tried to compose herself. It wasn’t happening.

“What are we doing?” Her question only made her feel like more of a failure, wringing out another string of shuddered sobs. “What’s wrong, Momma?”

Taking a deep breath, she wiped her face. So much for makeup. How had something as simple as getting to work avalanched into something she could no longer handle?

She rubbed her temples and tried to think of what to do as she saw Tyson climbing into his work truck. Guilt and fear added to her upset.

She was so tired of feeling guilty, tired of trying to keep everyone happy, tired of coming up short when it came to being an adult. She just wanted to say fuck it and let someone else deal with all the crap that needed to be done.

His truck slowed next to her little car as he leaned out the window. “Did your car break down?”

“I ran out of gas.”

He said something she couldn’t make out and pulled to the curb. As he walked toward her car Kat instructed Mia to stay put and got out as well. The moment Tyson saw her face he scowled. “Are you okay? What the hell happened?”

Upset that she looked bad enough to get a reaction like that two days in a row, she welled up and choked out, “I had a really bad day.”

He laughed. “It’s seven a.m.”

She wished she could find the humor in her ridiculous statement. Her attempt at laughter came out as a jagged sob. “It’s been going on for thirty-six hours.”

“Aw, come here, kitten. Don’t cry.” He pulled her into a hug.

She clung to his strong form, greedily taking the offered comfort, knowing it was dangerous to depend on him for such things. His palm soothed her back as his lips pressed into her hair. She needed to pull it together, but a gate had opened and she was pretty sure the hinges and latch washed away.

“What happened?”

“Everything,” she mumbled into his shirt. He always smelled so good.

“Do you want to talk about it?”

“No.”

“Okay.”

Still, her words followed a shuddering breath.

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