Absolution by Reana Malori

Author:Reana Malori [Malori, Reana]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Reana Malori Books
Published: 2020-04-21T16:00:00+00:00

EIGHT

Julian

"Julian? What are you over there smiling about?" His mom asked, a sly smile on her face.

He shoved Steven, almost toppling him off the couch. “Big mouth.”

“What are you shoving me for?” his brother quipped.

Rolling his eyes at his brother, he pushed him even harder. “You could have waited until I was ready to tell them.”

“Nope, I couldn’t. They needed to know you were about to do something stupid.”

Gritting his teeth, he glared at Steven. “Don’t ever say anything like that again. It’s different with her, and if you’d given me more time without opening your piehole, you would have known that.”

Steven looked somewhat chastised. “Sorry, J. But after you left the game last Saturday, I knew something was up with you. I haven’t seen you like this in a long time, Bro.”

Julian huffed out a deep breath. Since Steven had already given their parents enough to guaranteed they’d never leave him alone, he might as well bite the bullet. Turning to his parents, he shrugged. "I'm seeing someone special. Her name is Kori, and she has a five-year-old son named Morgan." All eyes turned to Juliann as he began talking. "I know what you're thinking, and it’s not like that." Julian ran a hand down his face as he tried to form the words to explain what was happening to him. "Trust me, you guys. She’s nothing like Rebecca. Kori’s a good mother, a good woman. She’s a realtor and had a good life before everything went topsy-turvy due to her son’s accident.”

His mother's face turned down, a sad look in her eyes. "You met her while saving her son?” At his nod, she looked over at his father, who shook his head as if to stop her from going any further. Her lips pursed in a stubborn line, and Julian knew she wasn’t finished. "Sweetheart, I'm just worried about you. I want to make sure you're not jumping into something that won't be good for you."

"Mom…" Steven groaned at their mother before looking over at Julian, giving him a shrug in commiseration. They’d both been through this lecture many times over the years. "Julian is his own man. You guys gotta stop doing this. He’s not that person anymore and what happened all those years ago was a special circumstance."

The elephant in the room, what everyone was concerned about but too nervous to put into words, was that his ex-girlfriend Rebecca had told him she was pregnant with his child. Then she’d claimed her ex-boyfriend had become so enraged about her moving on with Julian, that he’d beaten her until she miscarried. Julian hunted him down like the dog he was. It was best for him to not think about what he’d done to that man, especially now that he doubted the story had even been true.

He'd met Rebecca while rescuing her from a minor car accident, and after that incident, they started a relationship. Rebecca had him turned upside down to the point that he’d lost the pieces of himself that kept him whole.

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