Boots Beneath My Bed by C.J. Pinard

Author:C.J. Pinard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Military Romance, Sexy military romance, Contemporary Romance, New Adult Romance, U.S. Army Romance, Hot Soldier, USMC romance, SEAL romance, sports romance, baseball love story, college romance, Cristin Harber, Susan Stoker, Lani Lynn Vale, Stories in california, Kallypso Masters, Brittney Sahin
Publisher: Pinard House Publishing, LLC
Published: 2014-09-30T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 17

★☆★☆★

Well, I got my wish. Cara didn’t go out with me anymore, because that guy she’d met at that military bar was taking up all her time. Apparently his name was Riley, and he was only staying the summer here in California, and then he had to go back to Colorado to his base.

Is she freaking for real? I thought I was stupid. She was even more stupid. Why on earth would she get involved with someone so unavailable? Once that thought flitted through my brain, I literally laughed out loud. Who was I to ask that sort of question? I wrote the book on attracting and dating unavailable guys. In fact, I had laughed so loud, Ashlynn put her doll down to look up at me with a questioning look in her big chocolate eyes.

I turned the stove off and put the noodles into a strainer while I walked over and scooped her up into my arms, planting a kiss onto her tiny, upturned nose.

“What are you laughing at, baby?”

She pointed a chubby finger at me. “Mommy, you were laughing.”

I chuckled again. For a two-year-old, she spoke pretty damn well, especially considering it was just her and me. Maybe that was why she talked so well. It wasn’t like she was around a lot of other kids. Only the ones at daycare, and occasionally, little Aiden, who hardly spoke at all.

Jason had indeed moved back to San Diego, as I suspected he would. And he and Aimee had had a super huge ridiculous wedding on the beach. The reason I knew this was because he had posted a zillion pictures of it on Facebook and I had seen it all. I’m glad he was happy, but he was kind of an asswipe for leaving his daughter.

Did I blame him for going back to where his family was? Not really, but what was more important? His new wife, or his daughter? Now Ashlynn was only gonna see her daddy in the summer and sometimes on Christmas or whenever he drove up here. We had never gone to court over this whole thing, because we’d never needed to. Jason had paid me a good chunk of change every month, and saw his daughter on weekends, so I had no reason to complain. But now that he had moved and remarried, things had changed.

Completely.

I hadn’t seen a dime from Jason in two months, and I had waited patiently for him to get a job in Southern California and send me some child support, but he just hadn’t. I was too busy and too tired to take legal action, so I just continued to wait, hoping he’d make good on his promise to send me some money.

Just another problem in my life I didn’t have time for. Not only was I short on my bills every month now, I never got a break. I loved my daughter more than life itself, but there were definitely times where it was nice when she was with her daddy so I could just unwind and let my mind rest.

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