Total pages in book: 42
Estimated words: 41839 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 209(@200wpm)___ 167(@250wpm)___ 139(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 41839 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 209(@200wpm)___ 167(@250wpm)___ 139(@300wpm)
Biting her lip, she moaned his name, desperate and hungry for more.
He gave it to her. She gasped as he surged in deep, pounding within her walls, making her ache. She was hungry for him, for all of him.
“Please, please,” she said.
“I know. I feel you, Callie. You’re fucking incredible. I can’t get enough of you.” He swallowed her cries and moans as he continued to make love to her.
He’d slow down, speed up, and when he captured her hands, holding her to the bed, she knew he was going to find his release. She watched him as he did as he found that peak and threw himself over the edge before collapsing over her.
His head nestled between her breasts. She stroked his hair back, content, sated, and in love. She kissed him.
“I’m sorry, Callie, and I’m going to make it up to you.”
She smiled. “You need to stop apologizing. I love you and I forgive you. I wouldn’t have said yes to your proposal if I didn’t mean it.”
He lifted his head up. “You said yes?”
“Didn’t I tell you that?”
He shook his head.
“My bad. Yes, Drew Gold, I will marry you.”
Chapter Thirteen
“Do you think she’s going to be okay?” Drew asked. This was the first time he’d left Meghan. For the first hour, he’d stayed with her, but then teachers had asked for parents to give the children a chance to explore. It was lunchtime and Callie had packed Meghan a lunch.
“We’ve only got another hour to wait and then we can go and pick her up.” Callie held his hand.
“You’re nervous?” Drew asked.
“Only for Meghan. I know she’s in good hands.”
“You saw the bully there, didn’t you?”
“He was there in the same class, but it’ll be fine,” she said.
“It’s not good. I want to throttle a kid I don’t even know because he hurt my kid.”
“It’s not good but you’re not going to do it. He’s four and you never saw my parents coming to hurt you,” she said.
“That’s different. You never told your parents about how horrible I was.”
“That’s true. Let’s forget about this.” She shoved another fry into her mouth and he rolled his hands.
He wasn’t hiding his feelings from her. The engagement ring he’d found for her was already in his pocket, and he was waiting for the right moment to finally ask her and make her his. Right now, they were sitting together, enjoying lunch while waiting to collect Meghan.
“She’s going to be okay?”
“Meghan’s amazing. She’s going to be such a strong fighter. You have nothing to worry about when it comes to her and her abilities. I promise.”
“You’re right.” He picked up another fry. He couldn’t really taste his food.
“Do you even remember what it was like on your first day?”
“Fuck no, it was that long ago. Do you?”
“Not really? I remember coloring a lot, I think. We’re here now and we got through it. Meghan’s a fighter. She’s strong. It’s just the first induction day. Come September, we’re going to have to accept she’s going to be there full-time.” She pressed her head against his and he cupped her cheek, kissing her right there in the diner.
He pulled away as someone slammed something down on the table. Tilly had gotten into the diner and looked murderous.
Silence fell in the room.
He looked down to see it was a restraining order. “You’re breaking the law.”
“Is this some kind of joke? I’m being investigated for domestic abuse. Are you that much of a fucking wimp you can’t even handle a punch?”
Callie’s hand tightened around him.
“I suggest you leave. You’re breaking the law right now, Tilly.”
She grabbed his drink, threw it in his face, and went to launch the glass right at his face. Callie somehow grabbed her wrist once again. His woman had shocking reflexes. Was it all the years of taking care of kids, stopping them from falling?
She held Tilly’s wrist and took the glass from her. “That’s not very nice.”
“Get off me, you fat whore. You’re a homewrecker is what you are.”
Callie remained standing.
“Tilly, leave here and sign the damn divorce papers, or I will make sure the charges stick,” he said.
“Charges. Please, no one’s ever going to charge a woman for hitting a man. We’re weaker than you.”
“That’s where you’re wrong.” He stood up. He wasn’t going to let her attack him, not now. This woman had drained the last bit of happiness from his life and he’d never allow her to take another shred of his dignity away. What he lived with was wrong, he knew that now, and he wasn’t ever going to let her take anything from him again.
“Michael knows everything.”
“I’ll get Meghan.”
“No, you won’t. You’re not going to win here, Tilly.”
“You mean you’re really picking this fat bitch over me?”
“I’m picking the woman I love. I’m going to marry Callie, and you, you were the biggest mistake of my life.”