Trust (Twisted Hearts Duet Book 3) by Henry Max

Author:Henry, Max [Henry, Max]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Max Henry
Published: 2020-02-11T16:00:00+00:00

TWELVE

Zeus

“Fuck.”

I stop the bike at the end of the driveway and check the letterbox as a reason to stall.

John’s ute sits positioned outside our front door, a dry patch underneath it proving he’s been there since I sent him to get Belle.

I should have figured he wouldn’t just bail her out and be satisfied with an unexplained thanks.

After tucking the bike away in the garage, I step indoors to find Belle in the kitchen with two pots on the stove—a sight I haven’t seen in weeks—and John bouncing a giggling Sera on his knee, hands clasped on her waist.

“Who’s this?” John teases my daughter, turning her so that she faces me. “Dad’s here.”

“Hey, baby-girl.” I cross the room and place a kiss to my daughter’s head before taking her from John’s hold. “Thanks, mate.”

He rises to his feet, glancing over at Belle. “I’ll leave you two alone and head off.”

She wipes her hands on a tea-towel and rounds the island counter. “Are you sure you don’t want to stay for dinner?”

John mimics my action mere seconds ago, placing a kiss to his girl’s temple. “Next time, don’t leave it so long.” He turns to look at me, jerking his chin toward the door. “A word?”

Belle avoids my eye, burying her chin in her chest as she returns to the meal bubbling on the stove. Feeling as though I use Sera as a shield, I hoist her into the crook of my arm, bracing her with my other hand, and follow John out to the driveway.

He opens the driver’s side of his ute and then hesitates, one foot on the runner and arms braced between the roof and door. “Belle gave me the short version of what’s going on, Zeus.”

In other words, he thinks she held back. Interesting.

“Look. I get that you didn’t want to say anything after how this all started between you two.” He pinches the bridge of his nose, elbow still on the roof of the ute. “Not so long ago, I would have flipped my lid and demanded she move home, but your situation is different now.” His gaze settles on Sera.

I tighten my hold.

“The guts of it is, I don’t want you to be ashamed to ask when you need help just because we were friends first.”

“You have to admit it feels fucking weird,” I point out.

He shrugs one shoulder, mouth curled down. “Yeah, it does. I can’t get my head around being your father-in-law, so-to-speak,” he says with a hint of humour. “I mean, we’re the same fucking age.”

“Right.” Sera coos when my hold relaxes a little.

“But.” His tone turns deadly serious. “If there’s one thing I wish I had when Cerise and I went through shit at the start, that was parents to lean on.”

My chest tightens at the mention of his upbringing. John was an orphan. One who would talk non-stop as a kid about the day he’d find out about his parents and where he came from.

He still doesn’t know.

“What I’m trying to say,” he explains, grimacing.

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