A Life With No Regrets (Fairhope #5) by Sarra Cannon

Author:Sarra Cannon [Cannon, Sarra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: books about small town romance, New Adult small town romance, contemporary womens fiction, Contemporary small town romance series, New Adult Contemporary Romance, New Adult womens fiction, Small Town Romance series
Publisher: Dead River Books
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Two

Thank God for comfy beds and blackout curtains.

Exhausted from spending most of the morning in the ER, I fall into bed, looking forward to at least four hours of uninterrupted bliss before I have to show up at work. I told Jo I’d take her shift tonight so that she could look out for her dad. About fifteen minutes later, though, someone is banging on my door. I grumble and roll over, tempted to just pull my pillow over my head and wait for them to go away.

But what if something else has happened to Rob? He was in good spirits after they moved him to his hospital room this afternoon, but I’m still worried there might be something more serious going on with him.

I get up, pull on my jeans, and rush to the door.

Only, it isn’t Jo. It’s my dad.

I run a hand over my face, my stomach in knots. What have I done now?

Reluctantly, I open the door. “Hey, Dad. What’s up?”

I assume my most casual stance. It’s a good defense against my father, who always seems to be wound up tighter than a jack in the box. I’m nowhere near calm on the inside, but I don’t want him to know that.

He pushes the door open and blows past me. “Colton, what the hell is wrong with you, son?”

I swallow back the words that come into my brain. I don’t even dare open my mouth for fear that I’ll say something that will only make this worse.

“Imagine my surprise when I get a call from Neal this afternoon saying that you didn’t show up for the very important interview this morning?” Dad says.

I close my eyes and breathe in, exhaustion weighing me down.

“I’m sorry, Dad, I completely forgot.”

Which is just about the worst thing I can say. I realize it after the words have passed my lips. Dad’s entire face tenses, and if he was the hitting type, this would have been the moment he balled his hands into fists and let it rip.

“You forgot?” He adjusts his jeans on his hips and points a finger at me. “Do you have any idea just what I had to do to get you this interview? I went out of my way to get you in when they were already full up, Colton. They had to pass on some other guy who actually cares about this job, and you forgot?”

He shakes his head, disgust written so clearly on his face, it brings a bad taste to my mouth.

“Well, now I never asked you to do that, did I?” I say. Not that my father really cares what I want. He never has. All he thinks about is what he wants for me. What he thinks is best for me.

And in his eyes, I’m already the type of loser who misses interviews and takes everything for granted. So why even bother telling him about Jo’s dad? To him it would just be another excuse, and I’m too tired to drag this out.

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