Overtime (Vegas Aces: The Coach Book 4) by Lisa Suzanne

Author:Lisa Suzanne [Suzanne, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Books by LS, LLC
Published: 2023-12-27T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 17: LINCOLN

This has been the day from hell.

After the press release went out, my phone never stopped ringing. Megan is able to screen my professional calls, but it’s all the personal ones that are keeping me from getting a single fucking thing accomplished.

I declined calls without even checking to see who they were from, and eventually I had to mute the damn thing and ignore it.

I’ve been in and out of meetings all day, and I’ve discovered my brother will not be getting a paycheck while he’s suspended, which means I’m out seven hundred fifty K for the moment since I paid off his debts for him and he doesn’t have the money to pay me back.

And since he doesn’t have a paycheck, he has a decision to make about where he’s going to live. He had planned to share a house with Gabe Kessler and Noah Hawkins, two rookies new to the Aces, but if he can’t make rent, he can’t stay there, and he really shouldn’t stay with anyone on the team.

Including me.

Which means that for now, the twenty-seven-year-old adult will be moving back in with dear old Mom and Dad.

I’m not sure being with Dad is the best place for him, but it’s his life to live, not mine. And I’m currently struggling with my own, as it turns out.

Things start to quiet down after regular business hours when most everyone heads home, but I stick around the office a while longer. I order in dinner, and it’s almost nine when I finally head home.

And I find my father sitting in his car in my driveway as he waits for me to get home.

Fuck.

I consider driving around the block and running the fuck away because the last thing I want to do right now is face him, but I know he saw me, and furthermore, I know that’s not a real option.

I pull into my garage, and he stands in my driveway waiting.

“Hey there, Pops,” I say more brightly than I feel, and he just shakes his head as he glares at me.

“What the fuck have you done?”

I blow out a breath. “The right thing?” I say it as a question, but I mean it like an insult.

He rolls his eyes. “The right goddamn thing is protecting your family. Protecting your own. Not turning your brother in like some goddamn criminal.”

“Would you like to come inside to have this private conversation, or would you like to continue berating me in my own driveway where anyone can overhear your nonsense?” I ask.

That sets off the rage.

“Inside. Now,” he demands, and I feel like a kid about to get the belt.

But that’s the thing. I’m older now. Wiser. Stronger—certainly stronger than this old man who has let himself go over the last few years. And once I let go of needing to hear him say he’s proud of me, like most parents might’ve done by now…well, it’s pretty freeing to not give a fuck about what he’s about to say.

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