Playing It Safe by Lisa B. Kamps

Author:Lisa B. Kamps [Kamps, Lisa B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-02-18T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Aaron drew the hood of the sweatshirt around his neck and knocked on the French door again. The weather had turned cold overnight, more like winter than late October. The wind certainly wasn't helping. Sharp and cold. Biting. The kind that went straight through you and settled into your bones, making you feel like you'd never be warm again.

Still no answer.

He jammed his hands into the front pocket of the sweatshirt then walked to the far end of Savannah's patio and peered around the corner. Her car, a sporty blue coupe, sat in the driveway, untouched.

That didn't mean she was home. She could be out somewhere with her friend, Tessa. Or she could be working in the den at the far end of the house, or even downstairs. There could be a hundred different reasons she wasn't answering the door.

So why the hell was he so anxious?

Because he wanted to see her. Needed to see her, like a junkie needed a fix. And hell, that was such a bad analogy…but it fit. He felt like he was going through withdrawal and the only thing that would make it better was seeing Savannah.

The admission hadn't been easy to make. Hell, he'd fought it, tried to convince himself that there were a hundred other different reasons why he was so antsy and frustrated and short-tempered.

He was tired.

He was having trouble adjusting to the hectic season schedule.

His body was beat up.

He was worried about the girls. About Brooke. Worried he was screwing things up with them.

Yeah, that last item was a big one, the doubt eating him alive every damn day. Each time he thought things were getting better, something else popped up to change his mind, like Brooke getting in trouble for mouthing off to a teacher the other day.

Because she'd been bored.

Because the work was too easy.

Why the hell hadn't he known that? He should have. But the meeting he had yesterday afternoon with her guidance counselor took care of that oversight. Brooke was being moved into the advanced classes now, where she wouldn't be bored.

He hoped.

At least she hadn't copped her usual attitude about it. In fact, she almost looked happy. Which, in an odd way, worried him more—because he should have known Brooke was bored, should have known she wasn't being challenged in school. Just one more thing he worried about it, one more doubt.

The same doubts he'd been struggling with since April, when he brought the girls back here to live with him. That hadn't changed. That didn't explain his recent mood.

What had changed was not seeing Savannah like he was used to, especially since that day they'd all gone to DC. He had chalked it up to the lazy days of summer being over, told himself it was nothing more than everyone being busy. But it was more than that, his gut instinct was sure of it.

And Wednesday night, during the bus drive back from their road game, he'd been forced to come to a realization: he missed Savannah.

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