Ain't Doin' It by Lani Lynn Vale & Lani Lynn

Author:Lani Lynn Vale & Lani Lynn [Vale, Lani Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Stop encouraging everyone to go to college. There isn’t enough parking.

-Text from Frankie to Coke

Coke

I arrived at Beatrice’s office—which just so happened to be my father-in-law’s office, too—and didn’t bother to stop at the receptionist who was clearly expecting me to at least slow down.

Instead, I stormed right past her, then walked at a fast clip in the direction of where I remembered her office being.

She didn’t do anything for my father-in-law.

In fact, they weren’t even on the same goddamn floor.

He gave her this corner office, with a fancy title, and basically gave her a paycheck to show up every day.

In all honesty, I knew the only reason Ben had done it was because he knew I’d end up having to pay alimony to the bitch. Beatrice was that petty.

She’d been living off her father for years, but she hated me a little bit more than was likely normal.

She hated that I’d ended our marriage, but only because she hadn’t been the one to do it.

Her father had given her an ultimatum. Leave me, and he stops giving her money.

So, she stayed with me out of greed—not because she wanted to.

She was petty, though. Meaning she disliked that I was able to end our marriage when she wasn’t.

But she’d sunk to a new low, and I was here to confront her ass and see what, exactly, she’d been thinking when she’d paid a man to kidnap our daughter.

I knew I didn’t have the full story, and honestly? I just wanted, for once in my goddamn life, to understand what in the hell had gone through Beatrice’s head when she was doing what she did.

Barging into her stupid corner office where she acted like she was so fuckin’ happy, I didn’t mince words.

“What. In. The. Fuck.”

Beatrice turned to me, looking so goddamn serene that I wanted to throat punch her.

I refrained. Barely.

“Well, Coke. For once it’s you coming to me. To what do I owe this pleasure?” she asked, looking smug.

Like she knew she’d caused something to happen.

“Did you know that you had a large, lump sum come out of your bank account that paid one of the men that was caught kidnapping my new neighbor?” I asked carefully.

I mean, obviously she knew good and goddamn well that she’d had a part in that particular scenario. I just wanted to see the confirmation on her face.

Which came not two seconds later.

“I’m sorry, but it’s not illegal to pick your own daughter up.” She paused. “From what I’ve read, anyway. I hired a car service to get her. I needed her here so we could discuss a few matters.”

Lying bitch.

She knew exactly what she’d done.

“Well, there was a problem with that. Your car service didn’t even go to the college to pick Frankie up—and we’ll discuss why you think it’s okay to do that in a minute. Unfortunately, your ‘car service’ came to my place, and they kidnapped my neighbor, who happened to be coming to my house. And you knew good and well that Frankie wasn’t at my place,” I snapped.

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