Category: Romance

Read Daddy Issues by Kate Goldbeck Chapter 19 – Imanage to drip both queso and honey-chipotle sauce on Nick’s hoodie. He assures me it’ll come out. “Kira uses her sleeves as napkins most of the time,” he says, and I remember that this man regularly loads a washing machine with little skirts and socks. “I’m used

Read Daddy Issues by Kate Goldbeck Chapter 18 – Ican’t hold it. I can’t hold it. I can’t hold it. Think about the desert. Think about Dune. Think about those silica gel packets you’re not supposed to eat. Instead, I think about kidney stones. UTIs. I picture the irrevocable harm I’m doing to my internal organs by holding it.

Read Daddy Issues by Kate Goldbeck Chapter 17 – set my empty glass down on the weathered bar top at Treehouse, breaking my promise to myself about getting drunk. In my defense, I made that promise when I still had a place to live and a delusional belief that my mom had faith in my ability

Read Daddy Issues by Kate Goldbeck Chapter 16 – “Can you text Jan and your cousin Amanda?” My mom is going over a guest list that is much longer than I would’ve expected a year ago. “They haven’t RSVP’d, but I thought they were both coming.” She and Perry are in the kitchen, updating the status of

Read Daddy Issues by Kate Goldbeck Chapter 15 – “Make a right up here,” I say. “Just past the Rusty Bucket.” “For someone who doesn’t drive, you definitely know your way around the city.” “I grew up here.” I shrug, which about sums up my feelings for Columbus at the moment. “I thought adults could choose the

Read Daddy Issues by Kate Goldbeck Chapter 14 – Hal sloshes a highball glass down on the service well, sticking one sad little lemon wedge on the sugared rim. He doesn’t care about creating pirate ship sails out of rinds like I do. I have an artist’s attention to detail, even if it’s almost last call. “I

Read Daddy Issues by Kate Goldbeck Chapter 13 – “You have your keys today?” Nick is about to lock his door as I’m letting myself back into Mom’s place after a “productive” afternoon at the pool. “Lesson learned,” I reply, fumbling with the lock. It’s been finicky since I attacked it with the bobby pin.

Read Daddy Issues by Kate Goldbeck Chapter 12 – “The back will look jaw-dropping at the altar,” the wedding dress consultant tells my mother. “And the condition is fabulous on this one. Just a tiny bit of boutique dust.” I take a sip of my third glass of sparkling rosé offered by the shop assistant and

Read Daddy Issues by Kate Goldbeck Chapter 11 – “Just pick something!” I yell as I crouch down to check on the frozen taquitos Hal placed in the oven when we arrived at his apartment after we closed up Lōkahi. “There’s an art to selecting the right film for the right person,” Hal says, scrolling through every film on

Read Daddy Issues by Kate Goldbeck Chapter c – “She’s out,” Nick says forty minutes later, shutting Kira’s door softly. “And by that I mean, your cousin is asleep on Kira’s floor.” I’m standing at the kitchen island, eating the last scraps of leftover pizza. “I’ll wake her up when my mom and Perry get back.”