Single Dads Club by Therese Beharrie

Author:Therese Beharrie [Beharrie, Therese]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Montlake
Published: 2023-06-05T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

Delilah felt like she was on her way to take Rowan to the school dance. Nerves skipped in her stomach, doing intricate moves she’d never be able to replicate in real life. On principle, she thought that should mean her nerves couldn’t do them either. But then, they’d had a mind of their own since she’d received Rowan’s text.

I’m in

That was it. That was all he’d said. So of course, she’d been cool, too, and replied with:

Okay. Get you at six forty-five.

He’d sent her a thumbs-up emoji, which was even worse than two words. She hated that it bothered her, but it wasn’t like she’d spent the three days following that message thinking about it.

She hadn’t. She’d thought about other things. Like their kiss. And how awkward their last conversation had been.

And also, that message.

But it was okay. After tonight, she’d be off the hook. She’d already told Wendy she was bringing Rowan to the meeting. Wendy had been delighted, praising Delilah for thinking “out of the box” and picking a no-pressure situation.

Delilah knew the moment she and Rowan walked in, Wendy would take over, and Delilah would be able to hand the reins of social introductions to her friend.

Which was good. Dealing with the Rowan situation was making her tense. The day before, Delilah had all but shouted at Kirsten to share her opinion of what she’d walked into at Irene’s birthday.

“What if I don’t have an opinion?” Kirsten asked, frowning at the table she was cleaning.

“You always have an opinion.”

“Not on this.”

“Of course you do!”

“No,” she insisted. “I don’t. You’re a grown woman who can make her own decisions—and one of the few people I’ve actually seen own up to the consequences of those decisions.”

Delilah blinked at the unexpectedness of that. At the way her eyes filled a little, and how she had to turn away from Kirsten to catch her breath.

“I think we kind of mutually decided to not get involved with one another,” she said, wiping her own tables clean, even though she’d already done them. “It’s for the best. His situation is complicated, and so is mine.”

“What’s so complicated about yours?”

“I . . . you know. I have stuff to deal with. Emotional baggage.”

“Yeah, and that’s why you’re seeing a therapist.”

A true statement if ever there was one. But she knew as well as her therapist did that she was only going because she thought she should be going.

Witnessing her mother’s arrest had been traumatic. Not to mention the whole I grew up without the love of my parents, only my brother’s, and when he left, I felt lost, so I acted like a spoiled rich girl because that’s what the world expected from me thing.

Except she never talked about any of it in any detail. Anne knew what had happened with Delilah’s mother and the bare minimum of her childhood, but Delilah never shared her feelings about it. Mostly, she talked about her day.

In fact, it was a lot like her friendship with Kirsten, since she hadn’t talked about what had happened with Kirsten either.

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