Summer in Manhattan by Katherine Garbera

Author:Katherine Garbera [Garbera, Katherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780008194765
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2017-07-13T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Hoop got to the office early. Spending the entire day with Cici had been good but when she’d left to go home it had awakened feelings he’d thought he’d outgrown. Those feelings that he’d left in boyhood when he’d been in the foster system. Before he’d come to live with his Ma and Pops.

Loneliness.

For so many years he’d only relied on himself and even though he had siblings and good friends he always kept a part of himself isolated from them. A part of himself tucked away from the bonds with those others so that he wouldn’t be disappointed when they left.

He got it. There was something about starting a new relationship and that headlong rush of wanting to be with the other person all the time. But this was different. This felt different.

Cici’s scent was on his clothes and even after he’d left his yacht and gone to his apartment, he couldn’t shake her. He’d watched ESPN and read up on the case that Martin brought him in on and it distracted him for a while. He wanted to prove himself and he would. This was something he was good at. And for a few hours he forgot about his personal life.

But still it was Cici on his mind as he’d gone to bed.

Cici and her baby.

In the past, he’d just go out with the guys to distract himself, but Garrett had Hayley now and the rest of the guys from the precinct were on duty. He wished he’d made some friends at the law office but everyone was like him. They worked all the time and in their downtime, whatever they had, they stayed away from anything to do with the office.

So here he was at five-thirty in the morning on the treadmill at the office gym. He should be thinking about the junior partnership. He had a huge case load but instead of reviewing that he was wondering if a family was always going to be just out of his grasp.

He ran harder as the program he’d selected went on an incline but even the air burning in his lungs couldn’t shake the thought that maybe he was one of those people who was always on the outside looking in.

He knew the Fillions had adopted him and made him their own but a part of him always felt like he knew the truth. He wasn’t one of theirs and no matter how much he wanted it to be different, he couldn’t change that. Sometimes, when he looked in the mirror, he wondered who his ancestors were. Had he inherited the cut of his jaw from his father, were those his mother’s eyes? But there were no answers.

He was a solitary man and most of the time that didn’t bother him.

Damn.

He needed to get out of his head. To stop obsessing so much. But he couldn’t. When he closed his eyes, he saw Cici and thought about the baby growing inside of her. He wanted to be a part of her life but he’d never seen himself as a father.

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