Total pages in book: 75
Estimated words: 70185 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 351(@200wpm)___ 281(@250wpm)___ 234(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 70185 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 351(@200wpm)___ 281(@250wpm)___ 234(@300wpm)
This girl had given up going away to college to attend the local community college so she could stay home and help her mom with her siblings after their father passed. She and I have had many talks in the two years since we met, and I knew she had dreams of becoming a pediatric nurse.
She’s always been good to my kids and has a good head on her shoulders for one so young. “Christine, how would you like a job working at the daycare center at my job?” I hadn’t talked much about it with anyone else, but the center was finally finished, and I was in the process of finding the doctor and nurse Marcus said he wanted on site.
There were already about thirty kids enrolled, and more to come once everyone heard about the options being offered. I mean, seriously, with daycare being what it is these days, someone offering you free daycare where you can actually check in on your kids throughout the day, who in their right mind is going to pass that up?
There was even an app where they would be able to watch their kids on screen at any given time throughout the day from their office. Marcus had thought of everything and had gone all out.
The daycare was massive. I’m not sure what was there before, but there were about three rooms: one with cribs for the babies to sleep in, one for toddlers and older kids, and then there was the playroom and a room for classes.
I called Marcus after she’d left for the evening. “Have you been paying my babysitter?”
“I have, yes. By the way, now that we’re on the subject. The two au pairs will be working at the center as well, but I think when we travel with the kids in the future, you should bring her if she’s the one you prefer since they know her better.”
Damn! If the way to a man’s heart is his stomach, the way to a mother’s heart has got to be her children. He’d been doing so much with my kids in mind, and I hadn’t even noticed. I wasn’t even sure how to feel about it because it meant I had no more excuses.
He was doing everything right, and I can’t help but wonder if this is all real. My parents are no help and neither are my siblings. All they do is sing his praises all day, and no matter what I say to them, they take his side.
If I say we’re moving too fast, my mother claims that I already wasted ten years on a no-good piece of shit, but now that someone decent is actually wanting to be in my life and take care of me and the girls, I’m dragging my feet.
There’s no point in asking Justice shit because he’s like a broken record when it comes to Marcus. As far as that slut is concerned, Marcus can do no wrong.
“Are you still there?”
“I think I’m in love with you.” Oh shit. I hung up on him and ran to the bedroom to hide under the covers. What the hell did I just do?
MARCUS
I smiled and looked at the phone after she hung up on me. Well, now, I can’t let that declaration go unnoticed. I thought of sending her flowers, but that would be too obvious. Besides, I don’t want to give her ex any ammunition to use against her in the divorce, and another man sending her flowers might be too obvious.
In the end, I went with a diamond tennis bracelet, which I had delivered the next morning. It was a Saturday, so she didn’t have to work, and I probably wasn’t going to see her until Monday, which was eating me up inside.
But since we were coming down to the nitty gritty, it paid to be careful. Her husband had been served late the day before, so I made sure Monique, who was just back from Boston, was at the house in case he showed up.
I walked back into the room and sat on the chair in my study. Things were finally in motion now that my people had found everything her ex had been hiding. The way I see it, he’d been planning this divorce for a while with the intention of holding most of his assets back from her and his kids.
That made my blood boil, and I wanted to beat his ass in when I first found out, but that wasn’t going to help her and her girls and only serve to whet my appetite for vengeance, so in the end, I decided that hitting him where it hurts and getting her and her kids what they deserve in the bargain was the way to go. It’s not about my ego.