Bossy Mess : An Enemies to Lovers Romance (Catch-22 Book 1) by Madison Bailey

Author:Madison Bailey [Bailey, Madison]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-06-25T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 16

***WESLEY***

I stopped at the drug store and looked through the magazines, trying to remember if there was one I hadn’t picked up yet for my mom. All the young celebrities looked the same to me. And the cover artists airbrushed them to the point that they almost didn’t look like humans anymore. But I was stalling. It didn’t matter. My mom loved the magazines, but it wasn’t like she’d tell me to leave if I didn’t bring them. I just grabbed five of them off the rack — if she already had any of them, I’m sure she could have shared them with her friends or whatever.

So, I drove over to the home and parked and, even then, I was afraid to get out of the car. What if my mom told me that I was right? That I was turning into my father and that she was disappointed in me. Sure, I could counter with I just did what she told me to do… well, sort of. She told me, in no uncertain words, to have sex with Sloane, but she didn’t say I should do it in one of our client’s houses.

That wasn’t the point, though. What I needed her to say was the thing she always said when I was a kid. That everything would be okay, some way or another. Even if it wasn’t true, it was what I needed to hear. And that was a time when things were decidedly not okay. When my father was taking our family and driving us off a cliff over and over again.

You’re her only child, I reminded myself. She’s not going to push you away because then she’ll have nobody to bring her magazines.

That was enough to motivate me out of the car. It was tough to force my feet forward to the entrance way, but once I passed into the entranceway, there was no turning back. Everyone there hanging out in the recreation room recognized me and waved and smiled and one of the attendants went to go fetch my mother.

She wheeled over to me, through the hallway, clearly excited by my unexpected midday visit.

“Wesley!” she said, letting momentum push her forward as her arms extended for a hug. I stopped the chair and returned the hug, handing her the magazines.

“Ooh! And my birthday’s not for another three months.”

She quickly riffled through them. If she already had any of them, she didn’t seem to care.

“What brings you here?”

“Can we go to your room?” I asked. “I’ve got some questions about dad.”

“Oh, you don’t want to talk about him,” she said. “Let’s play a game of backgammon. Or would you prefer a few rounds of gin?”

That was her way of telling me that she didn’t want to talk about him.

“No,” I said, my voice stern. I didn’t want to bring up bad memories that she’d escaped from, but I needed to have answers. More than that, I needed her reassurance. “Please, mom.”

Even if she couldn’t understand what was going on in my head, she heard it in my voice.

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