Chapter 8 - Callum has an uncomfortable conversation with his daughter
Ultimately, Jamie was the more sensible of the two of them. He went home, he said, to clear his head and not have to deal with the awkwardness of a walk of shame or a changed pickup location the following morning. Callum worried over it like a loose tooth while he tidied the flat. With Jamie here all weekend details like making the bed or ensuring dirty clothes went in the hamper had fallen by the wayside. Callum hoped he had given Jamie the answers he had demanded. But had he been too forward and effusive in doing so?
He was distracted from his fretting by his mobile ringing. It wasn’t, to his brief disappointment, Jamie. It was Leigh, his and Nerea’s eldest daughter.
“Hello, sweetheart,” Callum answered. “Is everyt
