Help Wanted by Marie Rochelle Page B

to return to work. However, how could she look into everyone’s eyes and hear all the welcome backs when she was the only one who knew what truly happened before the last part of the crash happened?
    Keira had to get Charisma off this topic because she wasn’t ready to get into it with anyone. “I just need a little more time to clear my head.  I swear that you haven’t lost that woman who went on vacation with you.  She’s still here.”
    “I hope you’re telling me the truth,” Charisma said looking at her with a doubtful expression on her pretty face.
    “I am.” Keira was relieved that she’d dodged another bullet with Charisma.
     

 
    Chapter Twenty
    “Daddy, it’s so cool that you have your own motorcycle shop.  I love it here. When I tell the other kids at school about this they are going to be so jealous.” Trevor wandered around Choppers while Jim boxed up the last of the motorcycle parts, so he could get the space ready for a new coat of paint and the redesign he was planning.
    “Now, Trevor I told you about bragging to make other people feel bad. I don’t like when you do stuff like that. You shouldn’t ever want to make anyone feel beneath you. Who did you get that idea from?”  He was trying his best to raise his son to be a good person, but he was going wrong somewhere if Trevor was saying things like that.
    “Mom is always saying, if you have something good you need to tell people about it. It’s not your fault that they can’t afford the best things like you can.”
    Jim had to swallow a couple of times to keep from losing his cool. Kathy was ruining every good lesson he was trying to teach his little boy. He couldn’t allow Kathy to turn Trevor into a smaller greedy version of herself.
    He was going back to his lawyer for full custody. The only reason his worthless wife gave him such a battle for Trevor in the first place was for the money. Kathy was getting more from him by having Trevor with her instead of his son being with the parent who truly loved and cared about his feelings.
    Trevor deserved to be in a good caring and loving home. He wasn’t getting that from Kathy and the different men popping in and out of her life every two months.
    Jim hadn’t grown up in the best family environment himself, with both of his parents constantly cheating on each other.  He lost count years ago of how many half brothers and sisters he had, but the sad thing was his parents never got a divorce because they didn’t believe in the word.
    His parents wedding anniversary was coming up in a couple of weeks and they had invited him but he wasn’t sure if he was even going to show up for the party.  He didn’t want to deal with the two of them. Maybe because his mom gave birth to him at fifteen she thought she had missed out on something during her life. His father wasn’t much older than his mother. He had just turned sixteen the day after Jim was born.
    Thank God, his grandparents were still young enough to step in and help his parents out while they finished up high school and then college. He always knew who his parents were but he always thought of his grandparents as his true parents. They taught him how to be giving, loving and understanding of other people. He was going to pass those qualities on to Trevor with or without help from his ex-wife.
    Jim looked at his son trying to find a way to answer him without making his mother look bad. He didn’t want to put Trevor in the middle of what was going on with him and Kathy. “Trevor, when you hear your mom tell you stuff like that, don’t pay attention to her. Anytime you aren’t sure about anything she tells you always remember you can come and ask me, okay?”
    “Mom tells me that you’re a liar and won’t be honest with me. How do I know who to trust?” Trevor asked him.
    A deep, unaccustomed pain filled his chest at the doubt in his little boy’s voice. He never wanted Trevor to be worried that he would never tell him the