Mary Sullivan - Cody's Come Home

As for his doors back in LA? They were closed for good. But his mind hadn’t yet left that world behind, and wouldn’t for a while. This feeling of straddling two worlds might be the death of him. He needed to sort out Stacey once and for all.

He asked, “How did you get to the park?”

“I rented a car at the airport and made my way to your parents’ house. Your uncle was there dropping off stuff in case the search went into a second day. He offered to drive me here.”

Thanks, Noah, Cody thought with an uncharacteristic bitterness toward his uncle.

He was being unfair. It wasn’t Noah’s fault; his uncle had merely exercised his basic decency.

Cody drove her into town, stopping to retrieve her suitcases from her rental car on the way, and parked in front of the big old Victorian originally owned by the town’s founding father well over a hundred years ago.

Physically taking her right into the B and B and making sure she rented a room was the only way to guarantee she wouldn’t end up back at his house.

Cody carried her luggage in for her and waited while she registered. In her room, he set it all onto the floor and turned to her.

“I’ll bring your rental car and see you off in the morning.”

“Can’t we at least have dinner?”

“Stacey, I need a clean break. I’m sorry.” He knew he sounded frustrated. To soften the blow of his honesty—they’d been around this too many times—he kissed her forehead. “I can’t do this anymore and you shouldn’t want to, either. It isn’t healthy.”

He opened the door to leave.

“We’ll talk tomorrow. I promise.”

Back in his parents’ house, he showered, closed the blinds in the bedroom he’d grown up in and crawled into bed, pulling the covers over his head.

With a little luck, when he woke up, the past dozen years would have all been a bad dream.

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