Tagging Up (Callahan Family Book 5) by Carrie Aarons

Author:Carrie Aarons [Aarons, Carrie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-09-23T23:00:00+00:00

16

Clark

I feel like I’m constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Colleen knows now, and I can’t help but wonder when she’ll approach me about it. Will she tell anyone, namely Walker?

Something has me restless, or a lot of things, I guess. Either way, I had to get out of my house. So I came down to the park, but now I’m just cold and walking through the picturesque little town greenery all alone. Why is it that I’ve never had a problem flying solo before now? Yet I feel the stark loneliness creeping up the collar of my black goose down jacket.

Ever since the day we sat on the rocks and looked out over the horizon of Packton, I can’t stop thinking about what Anna said.

It’s people who have seen the mistakes of their parents and swear never to make the same ones with the person they fall for.

Could that really be true? Could I really be a faithful, committed boyfriend, husband, whatever? Will the buck stop with me, will the sins of my parents end because I choose to end them.

It’s never felt like that. Because I’ve been with plenty of women, and I’ve never felt one ounce of possessiveness. I’ve never felt a drop of wanting to try to pursue anything.

So why her? Am I just infatuated, or could this be the real thing? It would be the universe throwing me the ultimate fuck you if I ended up tripping head over heels for a girl who is much younger, related to my best friend, and has a mouth that most of the time shocks the hell out of me.

It’s also the only mouth I’ve ever actually cared to listen to when words come out of it. I found myself intrigued and invested when Anna was talking about her childhood, about what she’d overcome as just a baby. It made more sense, what Walker had said about the extenuating circumstances of why her parents wanted to keep her home.

She was sick, and she’s here. She’s overcome so much and gone on to make that mean something in her life. Could I make the trials and tribulations of my own childhood mean something? Could I correct those wrongs?

Why does being around Anna make me think so?

This is what happens in the off-season. When I have too much time on my hands and I’m left alone with my thoughts. And now that Colleen knows, it makes the whole thing more real. I not only went back on my word and kissed Anna when I said this thing between us was over, but soon my friends might know.

“Hey, Clark!” Hannah waves in my direction, her girls skipping through the park ahead of her.

“Uncle Clark!” Noelle cries when she spots me, running until I catch her and fling her into the air.

“How are my two favorite girls?” I ruffle Breanna’s hair as I set Noelle down.

“Mom said we could go get hot chocolate and then bring it to see if the lake was frozen over.

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