Keepsake ebook by Oliveira Amy

Author:Oliveira, Amy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-01-31T00:00:00+00:00

I was going to kill him.

That was all I could think while I drove through the streets of Chicago, my knuckles white and my heart full of rage.

“I can’t believe he would do that. Two weeks, you get that? Two weeks.”

Lachlan didn’t reply, not even when I made eye contact through the rearview mirror and I knew he could understand me. In the last two weeks, I learned a lot with the littlest Castillo. He was quiet, but the kid was smart.

I got a bunch of memory games for him since our first visit with Dr. Maya, and he was amazing with them. Not just good for his age. I played with him enough times, never letting him win, and still Lachlan was cleaning the floors with me every week.

He also disliked certain foods. He wouldn’t tell me what they were, but by trial and error, I knew if I put a pea on his plate, he would refuse to eat it.

So, I had to accept while he wasn’t talking to me yet, he was listening.

Lachlan was a superb listener. I kept rambling, telling him how many ways I’d kill his brother. Not my best parenting moment, I knew I could do worse.

“A fight. Can you believe that?” I glanced at Lachlan, but he looked so cute dangling his little legs from the seat, my heart melted. “Of course you don’t. You are a sweet boy, aren’t you, Lach? You are never going to fight and get me called to school.”

I parked at Lone Pine, my pits sweating and staining the blouse under my jacket. I hated being in trouble. Even though I wasn’t directly in trouble, I was responsible for the teen in trouble. Which made me in trouble by association.

I opened the door and then got Lachlan, undoing his seat belt and helping him out of my BMW. He left his pacifier behind, but not before sending me a look like he wanted to bring with him.

“You know the rules, buddy.”

He knew them, so he left it in his car seat, giving it a longing stare before grabbing my hand. Poor child endured my sweaty palm and my brusque walk without complaining. I opened the front door, forgetting for a second that school was still in session.

Lone Pine Academy was full. Kids in front of their lockers talking and messing around in the halls. I turned and took Lachlan into my arms, afraid he wouldn’t like cutting through the crowd.

I was steaming. Everything I did was to make life easier for them. Dash tried again and again to antagonize me, and I turned the other cheek. But fighting at school?

No, I couldn’t deal with that.

I blew a hair out of my face as I marched straight to Godwick’s office. When had teenage boys gotten so big? Dash was tall, but Alvaro was so large sometimes I forgot Dash would look intimidating if his uncle didn’t make him look like a little boy.

Regardless, anger took over. I stomped through

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