The Wright Love by K. A. Linde

Author:K. A. Linde [Linde, K. A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Publisher: K.A. Linde Inc.
Published: 2018-05-15T04:00:00+00:00

Fourteen

David

“I don’t know how many other ways to tell you. I’m not coming home,” I told Katherine on the phone.

She’d called a half hour ago to try to convince me to come back, but that was out of the question. She knew I wasn’t coming back.

“David, be reasonable,” Katherine said.

“This is me being reasonable. I’m on the phone with you. I don’t have to be. I have other things going on in my life.”

“Will you talk to Mom?”

“No,” I said emphatically.

“She’d really love to hear from you. It’s been so long.”

“I know that you’re on their side, Ren, but I’m not.”

Katherine exhaled noisily in frustration. “Have you at least decided about the wedding?”

“Are you actually going through with it?” I joked.

Her response was feral. “I don’t talk about your poor life choices. You don’t have to talk about mine.”

“Fine, fine.”

I could practically see her eye roll. “So, just come home already. Fuck.”

“You know that’s not happening. Why must you keep bothering me about it? I have a new job. I’m happy here. I’m seeing someone. Don’t drag me back into your shit.”

“You’re seeing someone?” Katherine asked. Her voice shot up an octave. “That’s new.”

Well, fuck. Now, I’d done it.

“Yes. It’s very new.”

“Details. I’m still a girl here.”

“She’s my boss’s sister. She’s younger than me. Younger than you actually.”

“Robbing the cradle?”

“No,” I said with a laugh. Talking about Sutton actually lightened my entire mood. It was so much easier to talk to Katherine about this than to discuss our parents. “No, she’s definitely an adult. She has a two-year-old son.”

“Whoa! Wait, hold up,” Katherine said in disbelief. “You’re dating a single mom?”

“Yeah,” I said cautiously.

“That’s crazy! I never would have pegged you as the type.”

“What type is that?”

“God…not type. But I just didn’t imagine you as a dad. It’s super weird to think about. I still see you as you were in high school. Thinking of you with a kid…that’s just…surprising. Are you really ready to be someone’s dad?”

Dad.

Whoa.

Okay, so I hadn’t thought about it in those terms. Yes, I wanted to date Sutton. Yes, I loved Jason. Yes, I knew they were a package deal. But the word dad had never really crossed my mind. And, with my fucked up past…it wasn’t really a word I was comfortable with. I was not close to my father. Not by a long shot. My past was complicated. Adopting a kid…well, I knew that had a lot of its own difficulties.

I swallowed back the rising panic in my chest. I knew I was getting ahead of myself. It wasn’t like I was going to marry Sutton tomorrow and pick up right where Maverick had left off. That was a horrible notion to even consider. She was hardly ready for a relationship. There was no way we were going to move into that route anytime soon.

But thinking about it was…not rational. I needed to shut down those insecurities. Because that was what it was…my own fears about my upbringing. And, if I wanted to see where this would go with Sutton, then I needed to give it a fair shot.

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