Page 140 of Family Bonds: Alana & Brennan
“Don’t remind me.”
“That was my thought,” Cindy said.
“The company Jonathan works for is being sold and moved to Alabama.”
He thought for a second, remembering the conversation between Darin and Kirk. “This is what you meant about things being taken care of soon enough at Christmas?”
“Yes. It was my hope he’d leave with the company. He doesn’t want to go and is trying to find another job within any Bond business. He’s not getting calls for any interviews.”
“And he thinks it’s Alana’s fault? She’d never do that.”
“She wouldn’t and she didn’t,” Darin said. “She thought I did. Or Jonathan thought I did and he was probably whining to her about it to fix. We fought because I did nothing but said I’d fix it if she wanted me to.”
“Fix it for Jonathan to get a job?” he asked. He didn’t expect her family to gothatfar.
“God, no. To make sure he never ran his mouth again. This only made it worse for him. Which Alana pointed out. I don’t know if Mitchell or Ethan flagged him to not get interviews. I didn’t ask and don’t care.”
He wasn’t so sure Darin didn’t know the answer to that, but it wasn’t his place to question it.
All he cared about was Alana.
“So this dickhead shows up and gives her a hard time over his job?”
“Jonathan’s career is all he’s ever cared about,” Cindy said. “I think Alana knew that deep down but turned a blind eye.”
It went back to her wanting a family as much as he did.
A conversation the two of them had so many times.
Would she really have sacrificed her own happiness to get that dream?
Hadn’t he done the same thing?
Brennan knew things wouldn’t work with him and Rene, but he did the right thing when he found out she was pregnant.
“My daughter needs someone in her life that is going to put her at the top of their list,” Darin said. “Or damn near close to it.”
He nodded.
He’d been clear Becca came first. Though he loved Alana, she might still feel as if she wasn’t a priority in his life.
“I won’t ever make her feel as if she’s not enough,” he said. “I promise you that.”
The conversation stopped after that, him trying to get his emotions under control.
Anger over her not trusting him enough to say that her ex had been bothering her.
Frustration with himself for not seeing anything because maybe he was so lost in his own drama.
Heartache that he might have let her down if she didn’t feel as if she could come to him.
Trust was a big issue for them both. They could say they loved each other all they wanted, but it wouldn’t change a thing if she didn’t know he’d be there for her.
They landed a few minutes later, the three of them getting into a car that was waiting for them.
He’d heard that it was Sophia’s and that Emily had picked her mother up and brought her to the hospital to be with Alana.
He wanted to race in before her parents, but he had no claim to do that.
