Here I Go by Jamie Bennett

Author:Jamie Bennett [Bennett, Jamie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-01-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

“Are you sitting down?”

“Cassidy, it’s three hours earlier here than where you are. You’re calling me before six in the morning, and it’s the day after Christmas! Of course I’m sitting down, because I’m in my bed. Most people wouldn’t even have answered at this time of day.” But actually, I was already awake when my phone rang because I’d been listening to Cain as he left for the office. He’d headed out around four.

I rubbed my eyes, very tired. I’d been up late the night before, too, not able to sleep even in this comfortable bed. When I’d eventually nodded off, I’d woken up again and again, until finally I decided to stay that way.

“I had to call before your mother did,” Cass told me, and that made me sit up.

“What about my mother? What’s happening?” I asked her. “Is everyone ok?”

“They’re fine,” she said, and I lay back down. “Oh, hold on. It’s Aria,” I heard her say to someone else. “She’s telling me what Cain got her for Christmas.”

“A coffee table book about California. A key to his car,” I filled in. “An electronic one that was expensive on a nice key ring. And I walked across the Golden Gate Bridge as a present to me.” At the last minute, Cain had gotten a call from Asia, and he hadn’t been able to come, not to church and not on the walk. He’d been sorry.

“He gave her nice stuff,” my cousin relayed loudly to someone, and then said into the phone, “My mom says hi and she misses you. I’m going outside.” I heard a door slam. “Really?” Cass asked in a more normal tone. “That’s what he got you? A book and a key? I thought he’d give you a car, not just a key. Or he’d finally spring for a big ring.”

“I already told him that I didn’t want a ring from him,” I explained. “It doesn’t mean anything. It’s silly symbolism,” I said, quoting Sebastián from the party.

“Is this really Aria? Being on the West Coast has already made a difference in you,” she marveled. “I guess you didn’t feel that way about silly symbolism here in Tennessee when you put your father’s wedding band on Cain’s finger. Does he know where his ring came from?”

No, because I hadn’t told him. “Why are you calling so early, Cassidy? I’m tired.”

“Because I have to tell you what happened yesterday. It was crazy! You really didn’t hear from your sisters?”

“No.” I’d temporarily blocked them both. They were having a huge argument because Amory’s new sofa supposedly looked exactly like the one that Aubree had bought last year, and Bree was having a fit that Mory had copied her. Judging from the pictures they had sent, I guessed it was similar—they were both tan, after all, but Mory insisted that the legs and arms were different, and anyway, she wouldn’t have picked anything that resembled Bree’s ugly furniture because she had better taste. It had led

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