Just a Heartbeat Away by Cara Bastone

Author:Cara Bastone
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HQN Books
Published: 2020-05-05T22:03:59+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

SEBASTIAN WAS JUST chatting with one of the lunch ladies when he heard the shouting from down the hall.

Becca, the lunch lady, scrunched her wrinkly face up. “What the hell is that?”

Seb was already skirting around the lunch tables and jogging down the hall. That was a man screaming his royal head off. Not the kind of sound anyone wanted to hear in an elementary school.

Lunch wasn’t scheduled to start for another fifteen minutes, so Sebastian wasn’t worried about kids flooding the hall immediately.

Following the echoing, reverberating voice, Sebastian found himself half a hallway down from Via’s office.

“If this bitch thinks she can tell me shit about how to raise my daughter—”

Sebastian left his stomach behind as he ran even faster.

One of the third-grade teachers poked her head out of her classroom door; clearly the man’s voice was carrying.

Sebastian was ten feet away from Via’s open office door when he heard the firm, dulcet tones of Principal Grim’s voice. Well, thank God Via wasn’t in there alone.

Sebastian skidded to a stop in the open doorway, one hand on either side of the frame. His breath caught at what he saw.

A humongous man, maybe six feet tall and a doughy two hundred and fifty pounds, was leaning across Via’s desk, viciously pointing a finger at Via and Principal Grim, who stood side by side. Via’s cheeks were pink, but she looked calm. Shit, even her hands were tucked into the pockets of her trousers. Fin’s purple necklace glinted against the golden skin of her chest.

Principal Grim looked just as calm, if not a little less patient. Her wild dyed hair was starting to come a little loose from her barrette. She raised a hand to quiet the man shouting obscenities, and when that didn’t work, she raised her voice herself.

“Mr. Tate. I’m going to ask you one more time to sit down. And you are obviously being extremely inappropriate if even Mr. Dorner could hear you all the way in the cafeteria.” She gestured toward the doorway.

Sebastian intentionally pulled up to his full height of six foot four. He wasn’t as big around as this guy, but he wasn’t as squishy either. He crossed his arms over his chest and let his biceps flex a little.

The man, a sheen of sweat shining on his forehead and his brown hair sticking up in a few places, sneered at Sebastian. But he sat his ass down in the chair.

Principal Grim gave Seb a meaningful look, and he stayed right where he was in the doorway.

“Mr. Tate, I understand that you have taken offense to some of the things that Miss DeRosa has written in this report. And that you resent being asked to come in to go over them. But I will have you know that I familiarized myself with your situation and reviewed this report before she was authorized to show it to you. I stand by everything she says. I have complete confidence in her.”

“She doesn’t know shit about my family life.

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