This Won't Hurt by Cara Dee

Author:Cara Dee [Dee, Cara]
Language: eng
Format: epub

Cadaqués looked exactly like I’d seen in the photos. Primarily white houses graced the green hillsides, with winding cobblestone streets and countless little boats in the bay.

From the balcony of our adjoined suites, we saw the whole town, and nothing but a boardwalk separated us from the private beach below. It might actually be smaller than the one we’d visited at Lake Como.

Each morning, Jake and I took the boys out for a run. A tradition we’d started recently. Jake went one way with Casper, and I took another with Colin.

I hoped Adam would be interested in joining one day, when he was old enough, but so far, he showed zero interest in nature, hiking, wildlife, running—practically everything Jake and I enjoyed doing with the other two boys. Instead, Adam stuck to going bananas in swimming pools, and he was really into music too. To the point where Jake had dusted off his piano-playing skills and introduced Adam to a new world. Russell had been next. He played the piano too, as well as the harmonica and the guitar. Adam could sit next to him for hours and mimic the movements of Russell’s fingers.

Safe to say, we knew what we were getting Adam for Christmas.

Colin and I jogged up another hill. The morning sun was starting to get hot. The town was waking up to a new day. We ran alongside the one-way path that followed the shoreline, and we were joined by cyclists and the occasional Vespa.

Places like this one made me think further into the future. I mean, one day, I wouldn’t mind slowing things down. Maybe have a vacation home where Jake and I could take more time off and just be.

We’d been through so much and still had decades left to share.

Family members had gotten married, divorced, popped out kids, died, moved… My nephew Crew lived in LA now. Greer was happily married and had more kids than I could count. One of the perks of getting together with a man—or possibly more than one—who already had children. In no way was my brother monogamous. He lived on his farm with three other men, for chrissakes. Even Mira was married, and she’d once sworn to stay single forever. She’d probably never have kids, though. They just weren’t her jam, outside of the Auntie role.

“Dad?”

“Yeah?” I swallowed dryly and tried not to pant like a madman.

“Are you doing Patagonia next year?”

“Oh—probably not.” I heaved a breath and wondered if this hill would ever end. “Remember when we visited Uncle Greer and Uncle Archie last spring? Archie gave me an idea I kinda wanna sink my teeth into.”

Greer’s hubby had grown up partly in the UK, and we’d gotten to talking one evening about the food industry. How certain ingredients were labeled toxic and ended up being banned in Europe, while we inhaled them in the US. The investigative journalist in me needed something other than nature documentaries from time to time.

“Why?” I asked curiously.

He ran closer to me as a group of cyclists whooshed by, and he grinned sheepishly.

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