Total pages in book: 75
Estimated words: 74875 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 374(@200wpm)___ 300(@250wpm)___ 250(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 74875 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 374(@200wpm)___ 300(@250wpm)___ 250(@300wpm)
Though, I hadn’t thought that she’d do that.
I’d thought, for sure, that she’d still be there waiting.
So I’d gone in search of her once I’d gotten a ride from Travis of all people.
Once he’d dropped me off, I’d gone directly to Hennessy’s house only to find her not there, but a fucking For Rent sign out front.
Pairing that with the fact that I’d gotten new patient papers from another psychologist a couple of towns over, I was fit to be tied.
Seriously, if she were there right then, I’d demand to know what in the hell had happened in the last twenty-four hours to cause her to lose her damn mind.
I started to work on the house, and lost track of time. In fact, it was nearly two in the morning before I realized that I’d been at it all night, and hadn’t stopped for food or anything to drink in nearly eight hours.
Once I’d made it to the kitchen, I looked out the window over the sink as I downed a glass of tap water, and my eyes narrowed when I saw her car.
It wasn’t parked in the normal spot. It was parked on the side of her house, nearly hidden unless you were standing exactly where I was standing.
My jaw went tight as I narrowed my eyes.
That little shit.
I slammed my empty glass on the counter with a thud and exited the house seconds later.
The moment my boots hit the front porch, I tried the knob.
Locked.
Pulling out my lock picking kit—a handy tool that I’d found worked great when I was trying to get through locks and gates to get to a car—and deftly opened her door without a second thought.
The lights were all out when I entered, and I paused at the door as I relocked it to help my eyes adjust.
The moment I saw all the packing boxes, my anger returned ten fold.
How was she just going to leave, when I knew for a fact she loved this fucking house, as well as the area?
Which blinded me to the fact that the moment that I’d locked the door, Hennessy had started toward me with a freakin’ baseball bat of all things.
She swung, I heard the whistle of the wood in the air as it tried to connect with my head, and turned at the last moment so that it connected with my shoulder rather than my head.
“What the fuck, Hennessy?” I cried out.
The wood bat hit the floor.
“Tate?” she asked in confusion. “God, what are you doing breaking into my house?”
I didn’t answer her, instead shooting back a question of my own. “Why do you have a ‘For Rent’ sign in your front yard?”
She hissed at me. “You can’t just walk in here like you own the place!”
I ground my teeth together. “You left me at the vet’s office, too. Made me hitchhike home.”
“I didn’t make you do anything. You’re a grown man. You could’ve called a cab,” she sneered.
Where was all this anger coming from? What had I done to her to make her this pissed off?
“Is this because of Ariya?”
She inhaled loudly. “No.”
“Liar,” I countered back.
She growled under her breath. “You’re so freakin’ annoying. Though knowing you have a daughter with some other person that isn’t me kind of sucks, I’ll get over it. It’s not like we had anything going on anyway.”
“It’s not like we…” I paused. “We did have something going.”
“Well, it doesn’t matter now, does it?” she countered.
I gritted my teeth. “Yes, it fucking matters. You and me aren’t done. And you’re not moving out of your house.”
She laughed in my face and bent over to pick up the baseball bat. “Get out of my house. Oh, and stop using your goddamn saw in the middle of the night.”
I froze, surprised to hear her let a curse word past those lovely lips.
“You cursed,” I pointed out.
She laughed humorlessly. “Go away.”
Instead of going away, I moved forward, snatched her up by the waist, and moved her until her entire body was flattened between mine and the wall.
“How about you check the attitude and tell me what’s going through that crazy head of yours,” I snapped.
My cock started to stiffen at feeling her lush ass so close, and it took me a moment to realize that she’d spoken.
“What?” I asked, unsure of what she said.
“You heard me, dammit. I told you that I can do anything you can do.”
I blinked. “Okay.”
What was I supposed to say to that?
“Okay?” she shrieked. “Just okay?”
“Yeah,” I said. “Okay.”
She growled. “You don’t think I can do the things you do, do you?”
Well, no. But that’s just because she’d never done them before. I had no doubt that if she put her mind to it, she could do anything she wanted.
“That’s not what I said,” I started. “What I said was…”