The Moment We Fell by Kelli Warner

Author:Kelli Warner [Warner, Kelli]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fiction
Publisher: Wave Runner Publishing
Published: 2019-06-25T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINETEEN

Cade

I’m pressed against the wall inside the kitchen door like an eavesdropping creeper. I told myself that I wouldn’t do that, that whatever Macy and Paige talked about in the next room is their business, but when Shawn took out the trash, I couldn’t help myself. So, now I’m keeping one ear to the living room and one eye on the back door.

The sadness in Paige’s voice when she talks about her mom puts a stranglehold on my heart. I didn’t know her watch was a gift from her mother. I’ve never seen her without it, and she’s always touching it, fumbling with the band or rubbing her fingers over the glass. It all makes sense now.

It also nearly kills me to hear the hurt in my sister’s voice when she talks about our dad and my refusal to see him. Macy gets nostalgic this time of the year, but the fact remains that the man broke the law. A jury of his peers decided that. And let’s not forget, he’d abandoned his family long before the judge’s gavel sealed his fate. I don’t owe him anything, not my sympathy and certainly not my forgiveness. Macy needs to accept that.

At the sound of Shawn’s footsteps, I dart back to the sink, just as the screen door opens. Shawn returns a few items on the counter to the fridge, but he keeps glancing over at me.

“You really like her, don’t you?”

“I don’t dislike her,” I say.

“Well, that’s romantic,” Shawn quips. “You know, I might use that line on Macy later. ‘I don’t dislike you, babe.’ I’m sure that will sweep her right off her feet.”

Placing a glass in the top rack of the dishwasher, I say, “Paige is just a friend.”

“If you say so,” Shawn replies, a knowing gleam in his eye. I flick my hand, splattering him with soapy water. He jumps out of the way, but not before a few drops speckle his shirt. “Okay, okay, take it easy.” He laughs. “I’m just saying that she seems like a great girl.”

Whether Paige Bryant is a great girl is not a topic for debate. She is, by all measurable standards, a great girl. Which entitles her to be with someone who matches her level of greatness and has something to offer her in return. Do I even qualify for that title? That is the bigger question that I can’t get out of my head. Am I kidding myself to think that I’m the guy for Paige? I didn’t have any doubts until Friday night, when Quinn cornered me at the bowling alley during one of the band’s breaks. After Paige excused herself to refill her soda, that bold redhead leaned her elbows on the table and stared me down.

“Are you legit?” she’d demanded.

I’d like to take this moment to declare that never in my nearly eighteen years on this planet has anyone ever asked me that question. And I wasn’t entirely sure how Quinn wanted me to answer it. I hadn’t spent much time with her before I met Paige—zero time, to be exact.

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