Making it to my truck at the main house, I climb inside, start up the engine, then lean my forehead against the wheel to take a breath as the guys at the station radio to say they’re already almost at the scene.Good men.
When I pulled up here tonight I was a single man with no family, a past I try my hardest to forget, and the only person I had to keep safe was myself. Everything in my life was tightly controlled and I at least had a fighting chance of keeping my distance from the woman I can’t and never have been able to stop thinking about. My heart gallops in my chest as I start to drive to the scene of the fire. Now we’re tied and bonded forever, and I have no fucking clue how to navigate that because I am not the man she wanted for the father of her child. And the biggest, most glaring question is how the fuck am I supposed to stop myself from wanting to keep her now?
CHAPTER 21
Olivia
My phone is buzzing at six the next morning, and I know there’s only two people on earth who text this early.
CECE
How’d he take it?
ME
As well as someone who got the bomb dropped on them that they’re going to be a parent can. *shrug emoji*
ME
But he says he’s all in.
CECE
I’m not surprised. It’s obvious the way that man looks at you that he’d do anything for you.
I don’t know how to feel about that as I open up the next message. It’s from my father. He’ll be up and ready for his morning walk.
DAD
Morning, Sunshine.
ME
If you can call it that.
DAD
What is the most popular sport on the 4th of July?
I smile.
ME
What?
DAD
Flagfootball.
ME
Haha. You’re a day late.
DAD
Gotta keep you on your toes. Have a good day. Breakfast this week?
ME
