Running Into You by Taylor Love

Author:Taylor Love [Love, Taylor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary Romance, African American,
Publisher: Taylor Made Daydreams
Published: 2018-01-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Cam was putting the finishing touches on dinner as he thought about last weekend. Even though they’d gone to bed early, they’d still slept in until nine the next morning. Andrea had insisted on making breakfast instead of going out in the snow, so they’d cooked together. He had wondered if his “realization” would have changed with some rest. The answer had been a firm “no”, as they spent the morning and early afternoon together. In fact, being homey with her had solidified the startling understanding that he was falling in love with her. Just the thought made him shake his head. He’d only been in love one other time, but he supposed it had been puppy love, since it was in high school. That, like a lot of things had come to an end with the death of his parents in his senior year.

His parents had only been in their mid-forties when they were killed by a drunk driver, coming home from one of their many date nights. They were good parents to him, caring and active in his life. His father had been a North Carolina transplant to Michigan, which is one of the reasons he’d gone there for college. His mother had been the youngest of four siblings and the outcast of her family.

They’d all had the potential for a good life, but the difference had been his mother’s drive. She had been the only one in her immediate family to go to college. Her siblings and some cousins had called her stuck-up for wanting more out of life than having several kids by the time she reached her early twenties. Instead, she’d graduated, got a good job, and met his father not long after. When they got married, they moved to a better neighborhood in Detroit, and that just made the divide even worse. Cam’s parents had taught him to be proud of where he was from and where they lived, but had also stressed there was nothing wrong with wanting more and uplifting your community as a whole.

Compared to his cousins, he’d had nicer things and more varied experiences. Though his mother wasn’t close to her two sisters and brother, she had tried her best to treat her nieces and nephews right. Needless to say, he ended up having an ambivalent relationship with his cousins because of all the tension between the adults. When his parents passed, he’d actually told the social worker he preferred to stay with a foster family, over his own. He’d known the only reason that either sister had stepped up was the thought of getting the monthly check that came along with him. Even though his parents were only middle class, his Aunts had used his mother for money when she was alive. He wouldn’t allow them to do it to her in death as well.

Even though his family home had been paid off a few years before they passed, he knew the court wouldn’t allow him to live there without an adult, and he wouldn’t turn eighteen until after the school year ended.

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