I See...Love (A Different Road #1) by Annalisa Nicole

Author:Annalisa Nicole [Nicole, Annalisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B013TFTNF0
Publisher: Annalisa Nicole
Published: 2015-08-23T23:00:00+00:00

“We should get going,” Josh says, standing in my doorway.

Today we make the two hour drive to pick up Kate. I’m not sure what to expect this time. This is the first time she’s done serious treatment. This is also the first time she’s coming to live with me again since we were kids.

Kate was always my dad’s favorite. She was only five when they died, but in those five years, she managed to wrap herself around my dad’s little finger. In his eyes, she could do no wrong. Kate was daddy’s little girl and Stephen was his pride and joy. Stephen was always the first word out of my father’s mouth when he talked about family to his clients at our house. Stephen was the starting quarterback, Stephen was in all the advanced classes, Stephen, was on the path to go to an Ivy League college. Stephen was his golden child. Even through all that, Stephen hated my father. We both did. Kate didn’t understand yet to hate him like we did. The only thing Stephen and I had in common was that we hated our father. I still don’t understand why I was the one groomed to take over the business and not Stephen. Oh, Stephen has his role, which he can’t seem to do, but it was me who was molded to become the picture perfect clone of my father.

I get in the passenger seat and try to push out the unwanted memories. If Kate doesn’t agree to move in with me, I’m prepared to play hardball with her. I had Sebastien draw up conservatorship paperwork. If she doesn’t agree on her own, she’ll have no choice. Because of her history, it wasn’t difficult to get a judge to sign the papers. All I have to do is file them with the court and Kate will have no other choice. All her decisions will be made by me. I was serious when I said I wasn’t going to lose another family member.

Since she went in six months ago, we’ve been having weekly phone conversations. In the beginning, they were difficult. She usually didn’t say more than two sentences to me. She’s never discussed anything that went on during her treatment. I made the trip once to see her on family day, but after that, she said it was too hard on her and she asked me not to come again. That hurt, and I still wonder if I should have let her have her way. Maybe it would have made moving in with me easier if I had played a bigger part in her recovery.

I’ll never forget the day I got the call from her roommate saying that Kate was lying on the floor unresponsive in their apartment in a pool of vomit. Josh broke every speeding law the short drive to her apartment. I’ll never forget the smell of vomit when I walked in. But what I never expected to smell again was the smell of death.

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