Going All In by Ali Parker & Weston Parker

Author:Ali Parker & Weston Parker
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 15

MICAH

My heart was hammering in my chest as I drove to the address on the rich side of Providence. I wasn’t at all surprised that Professor McCraven lived in a big white house on a hill. The only question was why Tasha didn’t live with her. The house wasn’t more than a ten-minute drive from campus, and it was far nicer than the dorms Tasha was living in.

I pulled around back and parked next to Tasha’s little red car. I’d made a quick stop by the strip mall down the road and grabbed a pepperoni pizza and a few chick flicks from the red box outside. I wasn’t sure what part I was supposed to play that night, but anything she needed from me, she was getting.

The pain in her voice had caused my heart to contract painfully in my chest, leaving me with the conclusion that she meant more than I was giving her credit for. It was inevitable that my earlier thoughts about hanging out until she kicked me out were solidified. Somewhere along the last two years, she’d stolen a bit of my heart. Damn her for it, but it was what it was now.

I got out and grabbed the pizza and the movies before walking up to the back door of the house. She was sitting on a large white ottoman with her elbows pressed to her knees and her face in her hands. I knocked on the door and backed up a little as nerves tore up my insides. I wasn’t used to girls crying around me. The need to offer her comfort to cheer her up left me working through a million things that I could say or do, but none of them seemed right.

She opened the door and gave me a weak smile. “Thanks for coming. I feel stupid for asking.”

“You didn’t ask.” I smiled down at her and walked in, setting the pizza and movies down on the large dining room table behind her. The place smelled like clean floors and cherries. It was an odd combination, but something about it was comforting was well. “I invited myself, remember? I’m pushy like that.”

“Well, either way. Thank you.” She moved toward me as I turned and opened my arms to her.

“Come here.” I pulled her close to me and leaned down to kiss the top of her head as she molded herself to the front of me. “What’s going on with your mom? I promised myself I wouldn’t ask, but you bringing up that she was dying is a little much to ignore.”

“She’s got cancer.” She let out a shaky sigh and pulled away from me.

My first instinct was to reach out and pull her back against me, but I knew better. She needed more space than anyone else I’d met at Providence, but there was a reason behind it all. Something told me that I would be finding out more about her than I could possibly want to if I had the patience to let everything unfold as it wanted to without forcing it.

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