Coming Home (Homeward Bound Series Book 1) by Rebecca Barber

Author:Rebecca Barber [Barber, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Limitless Publishing LLC
Published: 2016-09-26T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

ZOE

This whole trip had been nothing but a disaster. A colossal fucking disaster. Everything that could have gone wrong had and now I was sitting in Jenna’s car, my arms wrapped around my bag staring blankly out the window at the night sky. I didn’t know what to say. She must hate me. She’d just been summoned in the middle of the night to her sons’ house only to find them beating each other senseless.

Choking on the sob stuck in my throat, I swallowed deeply.

“You okay?” Jenna asked, her voice soft and caring.

“Yeah,” I lied.

We pulled into the driveway of her modest house and I realised that not much had changed in all the years I’d been away. Her yard was still sparse and neat, and the paint, although having been refreshed, was still the same deep forest green. Killing the ignition, Jenna climbed from the SUV and climbed the stairs.

“You coming?” she called out behind her, dragging me out of my own head.

Quickly I unbuckled my seat belt and slipped from the car. As soon as the door shut, the beep from the automatic lock propelled me absentmindedly towards the front door. Stepping into Jenna’s house, I realised just how much it felt like home…an overwhelming sensation I hadn’t been exposed to in as long as I could remember. With my parents gone and no siblings to speak of, life was sometimes lonely. It was never boring, but sometimes a girl just missed the basics. Like stepping into the time capsule of her family home. Or sitting on the floor in her teenage bedroom staring at the boy band posters of days gone by.

“Well, I need a cup of tea after all that excitement.” Jenna smiled, taking the bag from my arms and leading me towards the back of the house.

When she pushed open the door, my heart caught in my throat. I was expecting it to look exactly like it did last time I’d been there. Posters on the wall. Dirty clothes piled in the corner. An unmade bed. A pile of magazines stacked on the night stand. It was nothing like that. Spencer’s teenage bedroom was gone and had been replaced by a light, clean, and airy guest room. Complete with fluffy lavender towels folded neatly at the end of the bed. A guest room ready to be used at a moment’s notice.

Jenna must have sensed my hesitation. “It’s okay, Zoe. I know it doesn’t look like last time you were here. I promise it smells much better too.”

Jenna winked at me and I felt myself blush from the tips of my toes to the top of my head. I hadn’t been aware that Jenna had known how much time I’d actually spent in Spencer’s bedroom all those years ago. Apparently she did.

With a quiet laugh, Jenna moved out of the room. “Why don’t you go and grab a hot shower and warm up while I make a pot of tea? Then we can catch up.”

Not trusting myself to string a sentence together, I agreed quickly before ducking into the bathroom.

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