Perfect Storm by Elise Faber

Author:Elise Faber [Faber, Elise]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781637490556
Publisher: Elise Faber

Seventeen

Caleb

Yeah. I’m such a good mother that I nearly let my son die because I missed the signs, work at a fucking titty bar so I can afford to stay in one bedroom…

One bedroom.

He’d just come from that one bedroom, hadn’t recognized that it was housing two people, least of all an adult who, presumably, wasn’t obsessed with trains, unless some things had changed over the last couple of years.

Hell, who was he kidding?

Some things had changed?

Everything had changed.

Though, he supposed, those changes probably didn’t include Kim loving choo-choos of all colors and sizes and needing rubber bumpers on the corners of her furniture so she didn’t bonk her head.

I have six hundred dollars in the bank with the dream of moving into a one-bedroom apartment and not having to rely on my landlord for babysitting help…

Six hundred dollars.

Fuck.

He’d practically spent that today alone on stupid shit and some food to put in her pantry. Hell, there was more than that in the envelope currently sitting on the kitchen counter.

And that was all that was standing between her and Cole and not having anything.

Because he hadn’t been there.

They’re a good strong family with more resources than a woman who dropped out of high school, barely got her GED, and then didn’t finish college because she got knocked up. If Soph throws money or lawyers at me, I might…I might lose him.

She’d dropped out of college. He knew she’d worked fucking hard to get there because she’d told him, knew she was close to finishing because she’d told him that, too.

But that had gone up in flames.

Because of him.

And he’d deal with that, find a way to fix that wrong. First, though, he needed to deal with the rest of the bullshit swirling through her brain. “How could you think that I would take him away from you?”

Her face blanched.

The pieces came together in his mind as he moved closer. “That’s why you’re worried about lawyers.”

She went even paler.

He glanced up, met Raven’s eyes. “I’ll sort her shit.”

Raven was shoving her cell into her pocket. She moved to a coat rack, set just inside the front door, grabbing a hospital-branded fleece, tugged it over her head, and he realized she’d never made it out of her scrubs. Which, considering she was being called back to the ER, appeared to have been the right decision. “Good,” she said, yanking the zipper up, “because that is the last time I want to hear shit like that spouting out of her mouth.”

With that, she yanked open the door, marched out into the garage, and then was gone.

And he was standing in a kitchen marred with bullshit, guilt, and trying to figure out how in the fuck to navigate his way out.

“Mama!”

The tension dissipated like a pin hitting a balloon.

Footsteps pounded down the hall and into the kitchen as Cole burst into the kitchen, tears on his cheeks.

Kim was on her feet and moving toward Cole before he’d managed to take a step in his son’s direction.

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