Chapter Nineteen
Preston
The woman was going to drive me in-f*****g-sane. I knew the second I let her in, it’d be my undoing. I wasn’t ready to see my father, not after staying away for so many years. I tried blaming my f****d up life on him, when in all honesty, it was my own fault. It was better to push everyone away and not give a s**t, than deal with the disappointment on their faces when I didn’t live up to their expectations.
A part of me wanted to go back to that way of life, but Emma was like a d**g. I didn’t just want her . . . I needed her. Even now, watching her as she stared out the window of my car, all I could think about was throwing her on my bed and forgetting every f*****g thing in my life, except how it felt to be near her.
We pulled into the hospital parking lot and
