Total pages in book: 67
Estimated words: 68936 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 345(@200wpm)___ 276(@250wpm)___ 230(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 68936 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 345(@200wpm)___ 276(@250wpm)___ 230(@300wpm)
“It’s not my choice to make. He’s with you for a reason. Take it.”
God, it hurts more than she’ll ever know me saying these things.
I wish she could understand.
But it’s not up to her to understand.
It’s my problem.
It’s my hurt to shield.
19
“Just stand still,” I mutter, trying to rebandage Adan’s hands while he’s busy talking to Riggs about my step-brother and what they’re going to do to “deal” with him.
“I am standin’ fuckin’ still,” Adan grunts. “You’re takin’ too long.”
“Shut up and let me do my damned job.”
“Fuck me, you two,” Riggs says, looking between the two of us. “You need to go and fuck it out and be done with it.”
We both glare at him.
“Never met two people in my life that won’t get it on when there is so much fuckin’ attraction there,” he says, walking off.
“You and Eve!” I call out behind him.
“Eve and I fucked,” he calls back, “maybe if the two of you fucked, you’d at least get somewhere.”
I clench my teeth and finish wrapping up Adan’s hand before releasing him.
“I’m meeting Devin and my mother tonight, to try and come to some sort of agreement,” I tell him.
It isn’t something I’ve even told Riggs. I know he wouldn’t agree and that he would throw down and tell me I’m being an idiot. Maybe I am, but it’s worth a shot. I have to, at the very least, try to deal with this so it doesn’t become a problem. Devin isn’t the sort of person to back off easily and I know he won’t go down without a fight. The club will resort to violence if it doesn’t get sorted, I know it will.
“No, you’re fuckin’ not.”
“I am,” I say, nodding my head. “It’s a public place, I’ll be fine. I figure if I can get them to agree to something, maybe a sum of the cash, then all of this will go away. I’m going to buy a house, that’s all I need. I don’t care about the rest.”
“You’re out of your fuckin’ mind if you think they’ll settle for a sum,” Adan shakes his head.
“Well, it’s worth a damned shot. Otherwise things will get ugly, and I don’t want that to happen.”
“Where are you meeting them?”
“None of your business.”
He growls. “You fuckin’ tell me, or I’ll follow you.”
“How are you going to follow me?” I ask, crossing my arms and nodding at his bound up hands.
“Fuck,” he growls.
“Just let it be, Adan. I’m only telling you because I want to keep you all in the loop. Now, if we’re done here, I have shit to do.”
“What the fuck is goin’ on with you?” he asks me. “You’re snappier than me, and that’s sayin’ something.”
“You forced me back into a job I didn’t want to do, Adan. You know I don’t want to be here.”
“Why?”
I narrow my eyes to almost a squint. “What do you mean why? You know damn well why.”
He holds my gaze.
I exhale and shake my head. “I’m so sick of your fucking games, you know that. I wish you’d just, at the very least, be honest with me. Instead, you confuse me with everything you do. You’re not being fair to me, or Lorelei. Get your shit together, god dammit.”
I turn and walk out before he can say another word. I go to my room and get changed for my evening and then, when Lorelei comes to visit him in the afternoon, I slip out. He tries to stop me, but I tell him I’ll call him if there’s a problem. Then I get the hell out of there and make sure nobody is following me.
This is my mess, and I need to clean it up so I can have a clean break from the club until I can get over all this crap.
This is my time to shine, so to speak.
Here goes nothing.
“I’M NOT CERTAIN WHAT planet you are from, but whatever it is, the fact that you think we’d accept half of what belongs to us, makes me want to laugh out loud.”
I stare at Devin, and the urge to poke his eyes out, right here in this restaurant, is overwhelming. How did a man as nice as his father make a horrible child like this? My mother sits next to him, nodding her head after every sentence like one of those stupid bobble head dolls. She’s a sheep, and there is clearly a reason she is sticking around so loyally to this turd of a human.
He’s obviously got something over her, or my suspicions are correct and the two of them are in some sort of relationship. Though, I can’t be certain what he sees in her because she looks like a washed up old sea snake. I shouldn’t be cruel, but age has not done anything for her.