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She didn’t know if she pushed too fast. Maybe hitting the gas wasn’t such a good thing.
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NO ISSUES
Amonth later, Brennan didn’t know why the hell he was struggling to let Alana know how he felt.
She’d all but put it out there that one day that he was everything she wanted in a man and he froze faster than the rain on his windshield last night leaving work.
The roads were clear from the ice storm, and his daughter was itching to get out and do something.
He’d promised a snowman this afternoon if the snow in the backyard didn’t have a layer of ice on it for them to break through. If it warmed up enough, they might be lucky.
“How much do we buy?” Becca asked. “Thewholestore?”
He looked at his daughter in the seat of the grocery cart giggling. “No. Alana gave me a list of the items the food pantry could use. Let’s get a few bags while we get our food for the week. When we finish putting our groceries away, we can deliver these.”
“And see Alana?” Becca asked, her booted feet kicking the metal of the cart.
“She’ll be there, but I’m not sure if we’ll see her.”
She’d told him they called two days ago and asked if she could volunteer since they’d just had a big food drive this week and deliveries came yesterday morning before the storm.
Items had to be sorted and stocked. The pantry itself was closed for clients, only open during the week with some night hours.
Alana worked a night or two this month also.
She always spread herself thin in his eyes.
Their job was picking up now, she still helped in the community when needed, most weekends they spent together, but she’d never spent the night with Becca in the house.
That was another conversation they were going to have to have.
His mother didn’t have an issue taking Becca overnight, but there didn’t seem to be a need for it once Becca got used to Alana being there in the morning.
Becca loved having Alana around. His girlfriend loved being around his daughter.
No issues there.
No issues at all in his relationship that he could find.
The office had been slightly stunned at first with the news and then it died down.
Celia hardly said much more than hi to him when they crossed paths at pre-K. Worked for him.
Everything was going well.
She talked about hitting the gas, but it felt as if one of them was tapping the brake.
He didn’t want it to be him.
He was positive he caused it though.
“I want Alana to live with us. Can she?”
“What?” he asked. “Where did that come from?”
Becca shrugged. “Because I have fun with her. I want to see her more. If she lived with us, I would.”
