Total pages in book: 71
Estimated words: 66099 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 330(@200wpm)___ 264(@250wpm)___ 220(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 66099 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 330(@200wpm)___ 264(@250wpm)___ 220(@300wpm)
He raised the jug of fresh squeezed orange juice in my direction. “I can’t I gotta go find this pain in the ass. If she left the property I’m not going to be responsible….” I bit off the last of that threat because they were both looking at me like you’re not gonna do shit.
“Sian, Sian where are you?” I walked around the house looking for her. I was about to call her detail when one of her new ‘maids’ approached me from around the side of the house.
“Hell Raiser is contained. She’s in the back of the Rolls Royce. The driver and part of her detail is already on guard in the front seats.” She kept walking and I’d bet anything that no one watching would’ve known she’d said a word to me.
I released the breath I’d started to hold when I thought she’d left. Knowing her hardheaded ass I wouldn’t put it past her. She doesn’t like me to leash the dog, I wonder how she’d like it if I leashed her ass.
I walked over to the car prepared to let her have it for pulling this shit. But then I saw her miserable face and though there was no way in fuck I was gonna give her what she wanted, I could at least soften the blow of my refusal.
I waved the bodyguard off and seated myself next to her, closing the door behind me. I pressed the button to close the partition between us and them and pulled her into my side. Of course she tried that stiffening up bullshit.
“Sian.” I sighed hard and only then realized I was tired. It felt like I’ve been going since she was attacked and left for dead in that alley. Like every day in between had been part of one long drawn out horror. And until I find the ones responsible, I know that that feeling will not leave me.
I took her hand, interlocking our fingers and rested my head on the seat back next to hers. “Fix your face angel. You of all people know that I would never deny you anything that’s within my power to give.” I raised my lips to her forehead before carrying on.
“I have something to do so I can’t be there with you and I’d prefer you to be here with your mother and mine while I’m gone. I’m going to tell you what I’m doing this time. But the next time I tell you no, just accept that shit and stop making my life a living fucking hell with your shit.”
I lost it there at the end because her spoilt ass was making shit difficult where it didn’t need to be. Everyone else was falling into line and doing their part to make things easy, but not this one. And I’m doing all this shit for her hardheaded ass.
“Since we’re taking everyone with us to the island, I’m making sure that the place is secure and everything is taken care of from beginning to end. I have to hire lifeguards and extra staff and I have to make sure those people have the right clearance. Get used to it. From now on everywhere you go is going to be more of the same.”
She relaxed her hand in mine and I knew she was feeling exactly what I wanted her to. Ashamed of her damn behavior. “By the way, we’re only having sons. The last thing I need is you bringing in a double to fuck with my life.”
I didn’t want her feeling bad for too long and I knew that shit would make her ass rabid. I had to listen to her ass bitch the rest of the way to school. At least she wasn’t sulking or looking like I’d kicked the damn dog any longer.
I wasn’t lying when I told her I had a shitload of stuff to do. Along with everything else, today was the first day my boys and I were legitimately moving to the new classroom and away from the others.
I knew Sian would be okay, I made sure of it. She was surrounded by other people and knew very well not to go anywhere without me. She doesn’t know that there are eyes on her, that if she so much as steps foot out of the school doors without me she’d be detained.
But that didn’t stop me from worrying. I’d gotten rid of Mandy so my girl wouldn’t have to see her or deal with her while I was on the top floor away from her. And it was the same with Stanley. I couldn’t and wouldn’t have done this with them still that close.
I was leaving the rest of Mandy’s crew in place for my own selfish reasons. I wanted them to tell her everything they see and hear. And I want her to be miserable about the fact that she had been cast out while they were still here.