Entangled Heart by KB Winters

Author:KB Winters [Winters, KB]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bookboyfriends Publishing Inc
Published: 2021-06-21T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

Madison

After spending the night and more of the next morning in bed with Jamie, it was nice to be back to something that resembled normal. Nothing these days was more normal than watching Calvin pace the length of his living room while he continued to beat himself up over Bonnie’s death.

“Cal, nothing you did or didn’t do can be changed to bring Bonnie back.”

He paused at my words and flashed a loving smile at Ava Rose, currently fascinated with the purple and black comb in my hair.

“I know that Maddie,” the sadness in his voice matching the gloom in his eyes.

“Do you?”

He nodded. “I do, but I just keep thinking of all the signs I missed or just brushed off because I was pissed at her.” He shook his head again and tugged at his hair. “She thought someone was following her, you know?”

I shrugged my shoulder because how in the hell would I know?

Bonnie treated me the way Kat treated her, like I was too insignificant to matter.

“Yeah. At first, I thought she was just being paranoid, but then one day she told me she thought she saw Thomas following her, which was weird because he doesn’t do that kind of work for the family. But that makes him the perfect tail, because who would expect a guy in a three-piece suit to be following them?”

I kept my mouth closed in regards to what Thomas did for the Ashby family. As far as I could tell, he was no different than Terry or Calvin or any of the other people around here doing whatever needed to be done to keep the family safe and rolling in dough.

“Bonnie went to church that day, so I just kept driving, feeling good that she was somehow finding her way back to her faith after the death of Father Eric. That accusation cost her so much, Maddie. I was happy for her sake that she found a way back to church, if that’s what she wanted.”

Cal let out a bitter laugh and stepped out onto the balcony so he could spark up a cigarette. “Makes me pretty fucking stupid, huh?”

“Yeah,” I snorted sarcastically. “So fucking stupid to be happy for your wife who battled her way back from drug addiction and nearly died in the desert because she was finding a way to put it all behind her. To get her shit together. So goddamn stupid to want the woman you fell in love with back.”

As far as I could tell, Bonnie had her flaws, but she was a good woman who wanted to be a good mom and wife, something not all women aspire to.

Ava Rose and I stood just inside the living room watching Cal suck on his cigarette, the slight breeze on the balcony carrying his away his smoke.

“I know and that’s all true. But if I’d been paying closer attention, I would have been there for her. She wanted to be a good mother to Ava and a good wife to me, but she was tired of the gangster shit.

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