Winter Swans by Danica Winters

Author:Danica Winters
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, paranormal
Publisher: Crimson Romance, an imprint of F+W Media, Inc.
Published: 2013-10-07T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

She’d never been a parent, but Harper knew that whenever a principal called to report an “incident” there would be no good news to follow. There would be no awards to pick up, no sweet smiles, or slaps on the back. For the first time since they’d found out about Chance having a daughter, she wasn’t envious. She shuddered to imagine sitting in the office, staring at the principal’s austere white walls, filled with the nervous energy of someone who waited to be judged.

Chance turned the truck down the road that led to the high school. A tight scowl was planted on his face.

“I’m glad Kodie wanted to stay behind. I didn’t need him cracking Little Miss Trips-A-Lot jokes,” Harper said, trying to lighten the mood, or at the very least make the look of anger disappear from Chance’s beautiful steely eyes.

Chance grumbled an unintelligible response, but the look on his face didn’t flicker.

The knot in her stomach clenched tighter as she thought of how Starling had to be handling the pressure. Starling had already been through so much, it seemed unfair there were more battles to be fought. Yet in life, it always seemed when the disastrous ball of fate started rolling downhill, it only stopped once it had slammed into everything and everyone in its path.

If Starling was a normal girl, instead of a nymph, Harper knew the young woman would have been a mess as she waited for them in the principal’s office. However, having watched how she handled the loss of her mother and her former life, Harper couldn’t help but feel that Chance was probably taking the incident harder than his daughter. Starling had a way of being dismissive of the emotional turmoil surrounding her, but not Chance.

Harper passed a glance over at him, but nothing had changed — his eyes still carried the angry edge of a parent getting ready for a fight that centered on their child. It was hard to imagine him looking fiercer.

Chance pulled the truck to a stop as he parked in front of the beige high school building. The students’ parking lot, which had been unoccupied when Harper had dropped Starling off, was overflowing with empty cars. The main entrance was emblazoned with a bald eagle, but there was nothing to signal there was life behind the predator-covered doors. The emptiness did nothing to comfort her nerves.

“Do you want me to go in with you?” Harper offered, trying to break the tense silence that filled every inch of their space.

Chance squeezed the steering wheel and then glanced, sideways, at her. “Why did you take her to school again?”

Not another fight.

“She wanted to say goodbye to her friends before you took her to God-knows-where.” She stopped. She hadn’t meant to escalate the situation. No. “I mean, I couldn’t say no. She really seemed like she wanted to go to school.”

“Did you ever stop to think no teenager ever wants to go to school?”

She sat back against the seat.

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