Where I Belong by Heather B. Moore

Author:Heather B. Moore [Moore, Heather B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Mirror Press
Published: 2018-03-19T16:00:00+00:00

If Cameron had taken time to think of how he was about to meet Jane’s mom, he might have second-guessed his invitation to drive Jane. Yet, he wasn’t too worried about it—and why should he be? It wasn’t like they were dating or anything; she wasn’t his girlfriend. They were just fetching her mom’s dog, and then he’d drive Jane back to Pine Valley.

Besides, Cameron hadn’t even met her dad—the parent she did live with.

The drive had been just under two hours, and because it was Saturday, they didn’t hit any California rush-hour traffic. Regardless, Cameron was surprised at how relaxed he felt around Jane. Whenever he had to drive Crystal just a short distance, it seemed they had to make multiple stops, and she was on her phone most of the time, either talking to a friend or texting.

Jane had taken some pictures on the way but had otherwise stayed off her phone.

She told him about the high school golf team she’d played on and how there were four coaches. “They just wanted to get out of teaching their last-period classes on tournament days,” she said.

“Did you want to do more with golf? Like play in college?” he asked.

“No,” Jane said. “Like I said, I wasn’t all that good. It was just a fun thing to do. When I was a senior, my art teacher helped me apply to one of those fancy art schools. But when the acceptance letter came, my mom flipped out over the tuition.”

Cameron glanced over at her. “Art? You’re an artist too?”

“I could sketch a mean flower,” Jane said with a self-deprecating laugh. “Nothing good enough to get me a scholarship—thus the tuition.”

“Still, it sounds like you were accepted to a prestigious art school.”

Jane shrugged. “It didn’t matter, because in the long run, I still had to make money to support myself. When you meet my mom, you’ll understand why I couldn’t keep living with her, and my dad had his own life with his new wife. Art school would have put me into a lot of student debt, and then who knows if I would have even been able to make a living as an artist.”

“So what led you to starting a cleaning business?” Cameron asked.

She told him about working as a receptionist at the office where her mom worked as a dental hygienist. “But when my step-mom died and I went to the funeral, I saw that my dad was in bad shape. So I decided to move. I got a job cleaning hotel rooms at the resort and picked up a few private clients that way. Eventually I had enough to quit the resort.” She pointed to a street sign up ahead. “Turn right at the corner.”

Cameron obeyed. Jane’s mom lived on a quiet street in an older neighborhood. The yards were well kept, though, and he could tell that people took pride in their homes.

“It’s been nice to have a break from my mom, to tell the truth,” Jane said. “I love her, but.

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