Total pages in book: 69
Estimated words: 65039 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 325(@200wpm)___ 260(@250wpm)___ 217(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 65039 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 325(@200wpm)___ 260(@250wpm)___ 217(@300wpm)
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Chapter 27
"Mom stop it, Colton is so not what you're thinking, he's so, just so everything."
"Yes, but don't you think you've gone into this situation too quickly, I mean for heavens sake katarina you just came out of a very traumatic situation how do you know it's not just PTSD or something like that?"
"Mom seriously, for the first time since that whole nightmare I feel like me only ten times better, it's almost like I was waiting for him all my life and it wouldn't have mattered if this tragedy had occurred or not, I just know we would've found each other somehow. He makes me feel whole mom, in a way that I never thought I ever could again."
"And I couldn't do that?"
"I'm sorry that this hurts you mom but no, it's him, I needed him I promise you that everything is okay. He's just, he's the missing part of me."
Mom turned and looked through the glass at Colton, "But he's so much older than you are baby."
"And maybe that's why, maybe that's what I needed, he makes me feel safe and secure but in a different way from you and dad and mom he loves me, I know he does even if he doesn't say it I can see it. He loves me mom, please be happy for me."
"I'm trying baby, I really am, I even have long talks with his mom, she seems nice enough but you have to understand sweetheart, I just went through that trauma with you, I was there, I saw what you went through, I felt that pain with you, I can't see you hurt again."
"And I won't be I promise, if there's one thing I'm sure of it's that Colton Lyon will never hurt me."
"But living together, why couldn't you two just date each other for a year...or two before taking that step, I think I would feel a whole lot better if you did it that way."
"Not going to happen mom, we both want this I can't imagine my life without him, can't see anything changing between us except maybe one day marriage."
"Why would he marry you now katarina, he has you in his house in his bed, why give you the ring?'
"Mom it's not like that."
"Then tell me how it is, help me to understand because all I see is a grown man taking advantage of a little girl."
"And that's the problem, I'm not a little girl anymore, I don't know when I grew up, if it was on that living room floor that night or a few days later when my best friend ended her life, but somewhere along the way I grew up I had no choice. I love that you want to protect me but if you don't accept us, you'll be hurting me mom and how is that good for any of us, shit here comes Colton."
"Everything okay out here?"
"What exactly do to think I would be doing to my daughter Mr. Lyon?"
"I have no idea but I know her and right now she's not happy so whatever it is that you're doing, cut that shit out."
"Colton..."
"Excuse me?"
"I understand that you have questions, you're entitled, you can pose them to me, but what you won't do, what I absolutely will not allow is you taking out your frustrations on her."
"Get out of my house."
"As you wish, Angel let's go."
"She's not going anywhere with you."
"I'm afraid you're sadly mistaken Tina, we're a package deal, where she goes, I go, and vice versa, I'm sorry you can't seem to get over whatever hang ups you have against me for your daughter's sake, but that's not going to change what is. We're together forever and not you or anyone else is going to do a damn thing to change that."
He took my hand and pulled me up from the chair where I was almost close to tears.
"I'll be bringing her back in the morning but if I get even the slightest inkling that you're going to fuck with her head she won't be back. We'll be at the Fairmont."
And with that we left with mom staring after us in shock.
Of course she spent the night miserable, I barely got her to stop crying long enough to go down to the dining room with the others for dinner,I needed this shit like a hole in the fucking head. As if the situation wasn't tense enough I now have a crying woman with a broken heart on my hands, what the fuck is wrong with people anyway,it's not like I'm mistreating Angel far from it, I have only the best intentions where she's concerned, I understand Tina's fears after what her only child had endured at the hands of those monsters, she had every right to be wary but dammit, she should trust her daughter to know what the fuck she was doing.