Nick and Eve by Elle Rush

Author:Elle Rush [Rush, Elle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Elle Rush
Published: 2019-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Eve

Nick Klassen just jumped to her number one spot of favourite men on the planet. Not only had he saved her a trip to the grocery store, he had hand-delivered a care package of more soup, chewable vitamin C tablets, and tissues. Tissues with lotion. Her nose was in love with him.

When there was another knock half an hour later, she was at a loss as to who it could be. She’d already told her mother not to stop by; she had everything she could possibly need.

She absolutely did not expect her father to be at her door.

Eve had been fresh from the shower when Nick arrived. Now she had an afternoon’s worth of sick sweat and rumpled hair. She didn’t have the energy to worry about it.

“Hi, Dad.”

“Hi, Evie. Can I come in?”

She stepped aside. She noticed how his head swiveled as he toed off his boots. He’d never been to her apartment before; he’d never asked if he could come over. The last time he’d seen where she lived, she had posters of well-scrubbed boy bands on her walls and stuffed animals on her bed. That wide-eyed little girl was long gone.

He perched on the edge of her sofa. The cushions were well-worn, but he wouldn’t sink below the frame. “I didn’t know you like to travel.”

“I’m saving.” Eve had seen most of southern Manitoba and a little of Saskatchewan and Northern Ontario, but that was it. She had plans, though, and a separate bank account that could take her to British Columbia in the summer for a weeklong vacation, or to Mexico the next winter if she kept on target.

“You didn’t vacation with your mother and sister?”

“On what? All that child support you missed?”

Paul flinched. “It’s too late to make a difference to you now, but I want you to know that I’ve made up those payments. At least Emily will have the opportunity.” He sat straighter and took a deep breath. “I’m sorry I wasn’t a good father.”

Eve had no idea what to do with that. “Thanks?”

“I want you to know, when I left without a word when you were little, it had nothing to do with you. You were a great kid. Emily was a wonderful baby.” He was still except for his hands. His fingers twisted over themselves like a ball of worms. “I was the problem. I was in a rush to have it all—the house, the family, the career—but I was too immature and stupid to realize I had to earn it.”

She knew that. She hadn’t understood it at the time, but when she looked back as an adult, the fights she’d overheard when she was in bed and her parents were in the kitchen had always been about her father’s next great idea and her mother’s insistence on stability. After he’d left, that had become her mother’s primary focus. It was one of the reasons Eve was the way she was. “I don’t ever remember you saying this before.”

“Because I didn’t.

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