Mythical Creatures by Annie Dyer

Author:Annie Dyer [Dyer, Annie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-21T16:00:00+00:00

Callum

The look on her face when I mentioned dinner made me put a hand quickly over my cock just in case she decided to attack me. It was an obvious and shit thing to say, because she was reading me like a book and I’d basically just said ‘I don’t want to talk about it to you’ and I hadn’t even done it well.

“No. We’re not grabbing any fucking dinner.” She stood up, her hands on her hips and her eyes blazing. “We did this eleven years ago, where you refused to acknowledge anything about what you felt or even feel something behind that fucking stupid armour of yours. For fuck’s sake, Callum…” She sat back down again. “I’m glad Marie’s okay. She’s doing well considering what that operation must’ve been like.”

“You swear as much as her.” It was probably a compliment.

She shook her head. “Callum…”

“I don’t want to talk about my dad.” Even I could hear that I sounded like a petulant child. “I know he seemed concerned…”

“Proud,” she interrupted. “He seemed proud. He seemed like he was reaching out and he wanted to talk.”

“He wasn’t always like that.”

“I’m not saying he was. I’m not saying you shouldn’t feel the way you do. What I am saying is that eleven years ago when you told me you wanted something more with me, I couldn’t say yes because of this.” She gestured to the tablet.

“They weren’t invented then.”

“Don’t be flippant.”

“Why then?” My voice was quiet, calm. “Why couldn’t we have had something more than friends who fooled about?”

“You’d never had a relationship before. And I just thought that if things didn’t work out and I ended up breaking up with you, I’d do you so much damage. You were this gorgeous, confident boy on the outside and when I got to know you, I saw how you hid yourself behind all that. I didn’t know if I could be enough for all the feelings you had and if I’d be strong enough to catch them when they came pouring out.” She was standing up again.

I didn’t react. I’d spent most of my life not reacting. I didn’t cry or get that feeling inside when something was really good, not much scared me. Not much made me happy, not really happy.

“What do you want me to tell you about my father that you don’t know already?”

“Anything you want to. Whatever you want to tell me about him. The first thing that comes into your head.”

“I never understood why Marie loved him.”

She sat back down, tucked her feet under her. “Tell me why you think she loves him. Because she must’ve done to have taken on you four and had two more. She left her business in New York, didn’t she? For a widower with his four kids.”

I hadn’t thought about it as bluntly as that. “He’s a workaholic. He didn’t know how to hug us…”

“Did he hug Marie?”

“Yes. He would put his arm round her and I remember once I saw them kissing.

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