Love Runs Deep (New Beginnings Book 7) by Margaret Daley

Author:Margaret Daley [Daley, Margaret]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: New Beginnings Book 7
Publisher: Margaret Daley
Published: 2019-09-22T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

“How did the campaign planning go tonight?” his father asked when Zane came into the house twenty minutes later that evening.

“You should have come.” Zane checked the mail on the counter—mostly junk, which he tossed into the trash and kept the one bill.

“No, I don’t see me doing something like that. I would like to see Ruth as our mayor, though.”

“Great. She’d love your vote. I’ve been thinking about something.”

His dad muted the TV show he was watching and focused on Zane. “So have I. I appreciate you giving me a job, but I don’t want you to feel obligated to hire your own father. If I don’t carry my own weight, I need you to tell me. I don’t want to be a charity case.”

Zane dropped into the lounge chair across from the couch, tired from the fast pace of his day. “You aren’t. I need your help. In fact, I want to see if you’ll work for Kim repairing their upstairs while I get the school finished. Then I’ll be able to put a couple of other men on it, too.” His dad’s expression remained neutral so he hurriedly added, “It would only be about two weeks. I’ll even come over in the evening and do some myself. I’m going to check tomorrow night. She said something about a wiring problem.”

“I’m not an electrician. I can do plumbing and general construction.”

“I know. I’ll work on the wiring if you can do the rest until I have more men.”

“Why does it have to be finished so quickly?”

“Because her father is having trouble dealing with the destruction to his family home. Every time I see him, I sense that. I can see it in his face, like he’s lost. If I can restore his home, he may start to recover.”

“Son, you don’t owe that man anything.”

“But I do owe Kim. I left her. Not the other way around.”

“She found someone else.”

“But they’re divorced. Something went wrong because I know Kim’s feelings about marriage. She only wanted to get married one time. No divorce.” What had happened with her and Scott? The man had fit every criteria her family would have thought important.

“Sometimes what seems good on the surface isn’t.”

Zane stared at the deep lines on his father’s face, put there by many years of drinking himself into forgetfulness. There had been a time when he’d first left Hope that he’d turned to alcohol until one day he woke up and didn’t know how he’d ended up passed out on a bench in Jackson Square. He’d glanced at another man in the same condition, trying to figure out where he was. He’d remembered seeing his father like that many times. That was when he started to turn his life around. He would not become his father and let what happened to him in the past rule his life to the point of self-destruction.

“Are you talking about Mom? Why did she leave us?”

“Because I wasn’t enough for her. She wanted something…different. I can’t really blame her.

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