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leave me time to have a boyfriend. Heck, it doesn’t even give me enough time to date, period.”
    “I guess not.” The reality of what she was dealing with made me want to punch the sperm donor’s lights out for his part in Callie’s having to give up her dreams. Not once as a kid had she mentioned that she dreamed of being a waitress in a diner when she grew up. “Which diner do you work at?”
    “Blue Star. It’s close to here and my boss allows me to work the early shift so that I’m home more for Logan.” This might’ve been true, but she didn’t seem happy about it.
    I wanted to ask about her family, since surely they were helping her out. Her parents were those kind of people—just like my parents were. But I didn’t want to risk her bringing up Alexis. I didn’t want to risk her mentioning what my ex-girlfriend was up to. Alexis and I might not have been anything more than a great fuck, but that didn’t mean I wanted to hear about her life. Maybe I would eventually…but not tonight.
    Callie yawned. “I need to get Logan to bed now, then work on an assignment that’s due soon. So…”
    “Yeah, I should go,” I said, even though it wasn’t what I wanted. What I really wanted was to hold her, kiss her, and tell her that everything would be all right, but who was I to say that? What did I know about anything?
    She walked me to the apartment door, but before I left, I made a detour into Logan’s room to say goodbye to the little guy.
    “Are you going to Disneyland with us?” he asked, smiling with the same dimples that my father and I had, which made me wonder even more about his biological father. No one in Callie’s family had dimples. Logan’s had to come from his dad.
    “Sweetie, Jared is super-busy with his band. But you and I will have a lot of fun, just the two of us.”
    The dimples on his face vanished and he nodded. I nearly told him I would come, just to see his smile again, but I had no idea if I could join them. I didn’t want to make a promise I couldn’t keep. And something about Callie’s attitude made me question if she even wanted me to join them.
    I left Logan’s room. At the apartment door, I paused. I knew I should walk away and leave Callie and her son to live their lives while I lived mine, but for some reason I couldn’t. During the past few hours the restlessness had taken a snooze. I had no idea why. Maybe I missed her friendship more than I realized. All I knew was that I itched to spend more time with her, with the girl who once had tried to tag along with Alexis and me because Alexis had told her that we were going bowling. “Bowling” had been her code word for driving to our favorite spot and screwing in my car.
    Except now Callie was no longer a girl. She was a woman who had my blood heating in a way no other woman had before—not even her sister.
    “I’ll check with the band and see if I’m free next weekend. If I am, I’d be happy to go to Disneyland with you guys.”
    “That’s not a good idea.”
    “Why’s that?”
    “Because I don’t want Logan getting too attached to you. He likes you and I can’t risk him liking you more than he should.”
    I should’ve accepted what she said, since he was her son, after all. He had nothing to do with me. “Other than your father, does he have any males in his life? Any positive influences?”
    A flash of pain crossed her face, but it was gone as quickly as it had come. “He’s fine, Jared. And it’s better this way. Better than constantly dealing with guys letting him down and eventually walking out of his life.” The real reason she didn’t date.
    “And you think I’m gonna let him down?”
    She averted her gaze. “Goodnight, Jared.”

Chapter 6
Callie
    The apartment door shut behind Jared. I leaned back against it for several minutes, staring at the picture of Logan when he was a baby.
    And you think I’m gonna let him down?
    That was exactly what I believed would happen. It wouldn’t be