Diane Adams - The Making of a Man 04 - Clark's Story by Diane Adams

Author:Diane Adams [Dawn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Endless Days

"You took her to see her mother?" Clark looked up from the books he had spread across Jared's kitchen table to see his boss coming through the door looking less than happy. Great, homework on Saturday night and Stevie decided to spill the beans about their little trip. It had been a couple of weeks, but she'd lost ground. Clark hadn't gotten her to tell him what happened. Had no idea how the woman had managed to undo, in a few minutes, so much of what Stevie had taken months to accomplish.

Clark sighed. "She told you?" He laid his pencil in his book and closed it.

"No, she didn't tell me." Jared seemed really pissed.

Clark frowned "What? You make lucky guesses? Go yell at her. If I hadn't taken her, she'd have gone alone. And wouldn't that have been just dandy."

Jared took a deep, calming breath and turned a chair around sitting on it the wrong way, facing Clark across the table. "I went to see Mrs Holland today."

"You did? What did she say? Stevie went all snail back in its shell and won't tell me a damn thing. It's driving me nuts. I knew going there was a bad idea." Clark shifted with agitation in his chair.

Stevie had barely spoken to him since that afternoon. She went to school and did her job, but as far as Clark could tell, that was it. She'd stopped running with him. She wouldn't even go for a walk in the park when he asked her earlier to get a break from his school work.

"There's no point in telling you what she said. Mrs Holland is mentally unstable." Jared stared at the top of the table for the space of a few breaths, trailing his finger over the grain before he met Clark's eyes again. "Which I would have told you, if someone had bothered to talk to me before you went out there."

"I told Stevie going there was a bad idea. But she was determined to go, with or without me." Clark's jaw tightened as he struggled to control his emotions. "And considering the condition she came out in, it's a damn good thing she didn't go alone. I don't know, Jared, she won't have anything to do with me since. Maybe it's time to just let this go. I feel like I'm making life harder for her."

Jared studied Clark's face and he allowed his perusal. Clark was at his wits' end over Stevie. He thought loving her might be enough. Now he wasn't sure. He couldn't even get her to tell him what was wrong. As far as boyfriends went, he had to be the worst one ever.

Jared blew out a breath. "If you are ready to move on, the kindest thing you can do is tell her you are going to start dating and then do it."

"Poor Clark, you are so mistreated." Coming from the office door just off the kitchen, her voice took them by surprise.

Clark and Jared turned to see Stevie standing just inside the room, her expression as hard as her words.

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