Never Let Go (The Storm Inside #4) by Alexis Anne

Author:Alexis Anne [Anne, Alexis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Spinning Compass Publishing
Published: 2016-05-21T05:00:00+00:00

12

JAKE

Eve was still at the stadium working out something with a vendor, so Zoe and I drove straight there with the kids. I didn’t think she knew exactly what was going on, but she knew enough. She had been nothing but awesome with the kids and working around my schedule this week, but she had a look. You know the kind…the “your-wife-left-you” look.

Technically it was just a week apart and Eve was working, but anyone with two brain cells could see that we weren’t right. And when two people who are normally all over each other aren’t right and then suddenly choose to spend a week apart—a week they didn’t have to spend apart—you know it’s because they can’t stand to be around each other.

“So we’ll go straight to the house after this?” she asked tentatively, with those big eyes that studied everything I was doing.

Of course I could be reading the situation completely wrong. Sometimes Zoe was taking notes in her head for one of her books and I had no doubt that I was currently a fascinating character study. But more than likely she was just worried I was about to start crying or some shit like that.

I was not going to start crying, even if it did feel a heck of a lot like a piece of my soul had been surgically removed without anesthetics, but Zoe didn’t need to know that.

“Yes, we’ll say hi, see the stadium, and take her back with us. Cassandra is there and dinner will be ready when we arrive.” At least I thought that was what she said. I really hadn’t been paying much attention. All I cared about was getting my family back together.

Max was passed out in her car seat, as she usually did on any car trip that lasted longer than twenty minutes, and Sam had her headphones on watching an episode of Paw Patrol.

“Cool. It will be fun to have all the cousins together for a couple of weeks.”

And the thing was, she genuinely looked excited. I wasn’t sure where we’d found Zoe, but I was grateful. A part-time nanny who could step in and work full-time on occasion, and was totally cool with extra kids? And pleasant to be around? And professional? She was a rare find indeed.

“You don’t mind?”

She shook her head. “Not at all. Cassandra will be there most of the time so it’s not like I’ve taken on a small school by myself. All the kids get along for the most part. And the beach is five hundred yards away. Trust me, I’m good.”

There wasn’t a game so the stadium parking lot was empty. I wound down to the loading ramp and parked in the small lot off to the side.

“I’ll sit with Max if you want to take Sam inside,” Zoe offered.

“You sure?”

Ten-to-one she didn’t want to be in the room to witness the epic uncomfortableness that was about to occur between Eve and me.

“There’s no reason to wake Max. But if she does wake up, I’ll scoop her up and come in.

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