Second Chance Family by Rebecca Barber

Author:Rebecca Barber [Barber, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skye High Publishing
Published: 2023-05-01T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Jake

“What did you do?” I boomed, almost ripping the door from its hinges.

“Excuse me?” Mom countered from where she was sitting at the kitchen table sipping her iced tea.

“Kellie, Mom. What did you say to her?”

“Don’t take that tone with me, Jake,” Mom warned, but it wasn’t going to help. I was about to destroy something. If she thought Gladiator had a temper, she was about to see mine.

“Mom! Kellie just took off like a bat out of hell without saying goodbye. When I left her not twenty minutes ago, she was fine. Busting my balls, but we were good. Now she’s running. What happened?” I demanded.

Mom stood up, turned her back to me, and poured the last of her drink down the sink before rinsing the glass and setting it on the dish rack to dry. If she was hoping I’d calm down while she went about her business, then she didn’t know shit about me. If anything, it was only fueling the frustration.

“Mom!” I tried again.

“I did nothing wrong, Jake. Cassie needed to use the bathroom, so they went upstairs. When they reappeared, Kellie looked like she’d seen a ghost and was hightailing it out the door.”

“Did she say anything?”

“She just said she had to go.”

“Agh!” I raged, stomping out of the kitchen and heading upstairs. When I rounded the corner and saw some papers on the floor, I bent down to pick them up. I might be as mad as a cut snake right now, but I wasn’t about to trash the place. At least I hadn’t thought I was going to until I saw it.

Snatching up the paper lying on top, my blood roared through my ears, and my pulse skyrocketed. Spinning on my heel, I stomped into the kitchen before tossing it down on the kitchen table.

“What the fuck is this?” I hissed, pointing at the offending document.

“What?”

“Don’t. Just don’t. Where the hell did this come from?” I demanded.

Mom picked it up and scanned it quickly. She didn’t need to read it. She already knew what it said. “When I spoke to our lawyers a couple of days ago, I asked them to draft it.”

“You asked them to draft it?” I repeated, not sure I’d heard her correctly. At least I hoped I hadn’t.

“She doesn’t even call you Dad, Jake.”

“That’s between me and my daughter. You had no right…”

“I have every right!” Mom spat angrily as she stood up and glared at me. “That woman kept my granddaughter from me. She kept your daughter from you. Surely, you can’t be going to forgive her for that.”

Mom and I had never fought. Not really. We’d argued, especially when I was a horny, dumb teenager doing stupid shit, but it’d never gotten real. At the end of the day, she’d always been my mom, and I’d always been her baby boy. It wasn’t like it was with Dad. He and I could fight and go weeks without exchanging a word, but usually, I apologized to Mom, undoing the damage before I even went to bed that night.

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