Total pages in book: 80
Estimated words: 75599 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 378(@200wpm)___ 302(@250wpm)___ 252(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 75599 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 378(@200wpm)___ 302(@250wpm)___ 252(@300wpm)
“I know,” I growled quietly.
“What’s the hesitation I seem to hear there?”
I shook my head. “I have no hesitations. Not with her,” I added fiercely. “But, there’ll be complications.”
Aiden raised a brow and I sighed, grumbling.
“She’s a patient.”
He winced, but then shrugged. “Not the greatest PR, but people will live.”
“She’s young.”
Aiden’s brow furrowed again. “How young are we talking here, Brody?”
I gave him a look. “C’mon, don’t look at me like that. She’s almost twenty, it’s not like that. But still…”
“But still, you’re thirty-two.”
“Yeah.”
“Why do I get the feeling you don’t give a single shit about what I or anyone else has to say about the matter?”
“Because I don’t,” I growled fiercely, my heart racing and beating faster as I thought of Ada. “Because she’s it, man. She’s everything.”
Aiden whistled. “This mystery girl who seems to have gotten through the walled-off Jackson Brody have a name?”
“Ada,” I said softly, the very sound of her name making my heart race and my cock throb.
My friend nodded. “Well, fuck man, I guess I just have one question then.”
I raised a brow. “Yeah, what’s that?”
He grinned. “The fuck are you still doing talking to me?”
I was smiling. Me, smiling. It’s not like I hadn’t felt any happiness since, well, before. But I hadn’t ever felt this kind of happiness. Life hadn’t ever felt so purposeful, like everything was clicking into place. Ada was the missing piece I’d always known wasn’t there. Her, and what I saw in our future was what I wanted, and I knew I was going to make it happen with her.
And fuck I couldn’t wait to get back to her.
I was reaching for the door handle to my Mustang, when the voice hit me like a knife in the back. The voice I’d tried to block out — the one I’d have been just fine never hearing again for the rest of my life.
Jen.
Jen had been a lifetime ago — a mistake I kept following thinking there’d be redemption somewhere down the road.
There never was.
We’d met young, when I was still in med school and she was, well, hunting for a doctor to marry up and latch on to. And that’s just what she did — well, what she almost did. We’d planned to be married — not because I was head over heels in love with her, but because I was young and just thought that’s what you did. It’d never felt exactly right, but then, it was never bad either.
Until it was. Until I found out about her betrayal, and her true motives.
See, I wanted kids. I’ve always wanted kids, and as far as I knew, Jen was on board. We tried to conceive while she was planning our big elaborate wedding, but it just never happened. It was Aiden who saved me from the biggest mistake of my life. I knew he’d struggled with telling me and breaking his own Hippocratic oath as a doctor, and I was forever grateful for him for it.
Aiden was the one who discovered the truth about Jen. He’d been out at a bar frequented by the docs and med students of the university, and it was there he’d seen Jen, my fiancé, pulling two other doctor’s into the bathroom while putting her hands all fucking over them. He’d gone directly to the hospital and pulled up her records, because he’s a smart, calculating man, and that’s when he found the rest before she showed me.
Jen had secretly been on birth control the entire time we’d been together. Despite all her bullshit about wanting kids and a family, she’d been faking it — faking it and then also fucking her way through as many other doctors as she could. Seems I was a fetish, not a partner.
Through the PI I’d hired, I found out the rest. Her true plan was to keep “trying” to have kids with me, and when we couldn’t, she was going to file for divorce under the grounds that we couldn’t conceive. And in this state, that afforded her half. I’d been furious, of course, and I’d thrown the other men in her face and threatened to bring it to light in court, but then, I couldn’t. I had nothing concrete besides Aiden’s testimony, but Aiden’s testimony would also expose him to being the one who leaked me her medical records, which would cost him his license and his future.
I couldn’t have that.
Furthermore, the PI had used illegal surveillance to obtain what he’d discovered, so that was out too. The worse though was that Jen had come prepared for war. The whole thing had hit me out of nowhere, but she’d done her homework. During the course of me kicking her ass out, she’d filed a lawsuit for “aggrievement,” claiming I’d abused her and cheated on her.
…It’d be funny if it wasn’t infuriating.