Hopelessly Broken by Tawny Taylor

Author:Tawny Taylor [Taylor, Tawny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-07-28T04:00:00+00:00

Something was wrong. She could see it in his eyes.

Jenn felt her smile wilting. What could it be? Things had gone so well yesterday. They’d had a nice breakfast, and then Logan and Aeron had enjoyed their boy stuff together.

Surely it had nothing to do with last night…?

Aeron’s jaw set. “Jennifer, I’m sorry, but I have to leave.”

It took a second for his words to sink in. When they did, her stomach instantly tied itself into a knot.

He was leaving?

He was leaving.

No. He couldn’t. Her caseworker would be back. Anytime. If she found out they were living in the house without an adult, Logan would be taken away.

“Aeron, if it’s about what happened last night—“

“No. It’s not that. It’s…” He shook his head. “Sorry, but I’m just not the hero you made me out to be. I’m just a guy who has a job to do and has a life to live. I can’t get tangled up in anyone else’s problems.”

His words were like razors, slicing through her. He couldn’t get tangled up in anyone else’s problems? Well, far be it from her to do that to him. “Fine. Go.”

“It’s the way it has to be. I’m sorry--”

“Sure. Whatever,” she interrupted. The last thing she wanted to hear was how terribly she’d inconvenienced him. She didn’t want his pity. She didn’t want anyone’s pity. “It would be better if you left before Logan gets up, or you’ll be facing a barrage of questions.”

He almost looked convincingly upset. “I hope you’ll let Logan visit me and Cojack.”

The nerve of this jerk. First he agreed to help her. Then he backed out. But he had the gall to ask if Logan could come and visit? Why? Why did he want to spend time with a little kid, anyway? That wasn’t normal. “I don’t know.”

He nodded. Turned.

She cursed under her breath as she watched him head for the stairs.

She’d been wrong about Aeron. So wrong. Here she’d begun to think he might be a nice guy, trustworthy. Willing to help someone out he barely knew.

No, he was right--he wasn’t a hero. He was an asshole. A selfish, chicken-hearted jerk who made out with a girl and then dumped her.

As her front door slammed behind him, she bid him good riddance, forever. And then she sat down with her phone and tried to come up with Plan B.

She needed someone to stay with them for a while. Someone over eighteen.

Someone who wouldn’t blink at the notion of deceiving a representative of the state.

Someone who didn’t mind bending the rules for the greater good.

Someone who wouldn’t say yes and then turn around a couple of days later and leave her stranded like Aeron had.

Who could that someone be?

She paged down her through her contact list. She hadn’t talked to any of these people in so long, months--the friends who had once been such a huge part of her life. Their lives had all gone on like normal while hers had veered off in another direction. It was January, the beginning of a new semester.

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