Everything by Melissa Pearl

Author:Melissa Pearl [Pearl, Melissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Songbird
Publisher: Melissa Pearl
Published: 2015-04-17T04:00:00+00:00

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Watching my “good neighbor” leave my apartment had sucked. About two minutes after he left, Angel started crying. I winced at the piercing sound, picking her up and trying to entertain her while I got rid of last night’s stench. In the end I popped her in the shower with me, which was fine but hardly relaxing, especially when I accidentally got soap in her eye. Note to self, don’t be scrubbing your body with a soapy loofah when your baby is sitting on the shower floor.

It took her way too long to get over that incident, and she ended up screaming her bloodshot eyes to sleep. I felt so terrible. Guilt played with me for the rest of the day, tormenting me in my sleep as I tried to recover from the previous night.

Ella woke me from a fitful nap to check up on me, and then Morgan called about a half hour later to tell me off for drinking too much. Her phone call woke Angel, so she didn’t have long to chew my ear out. She did at least apologize for waking my baby and turning my afternoon into the longest one ever.

By the time I crawled to my bed, I felt like total shit but of course couldn’t find the comfort of sleep.

I wanted Leo back in the house again. I wanted him in my bed, holding me as I slept. I wanted him to wake up beside me and suggest the perfect song to start the day with.

But he wasn’t beside me. In fact that next day he wasn’t even home, and the Cray-Cray was all up my ass with complaints about his kitchen faucet. He was forced to deal with me because Leo wasn’t around, and after a day of insults, I needed Leo’s song list more than anything.

I was tempted to pop over the next day and ask for a bunch of suggestions to get me through the crap-fest of a week I was having, but I forced myself not to. He wasn’t my boyfriend. He was my boss, my neighbor, and that was it. I just had to accept it!

Angel kicked her legs and squealed. It wasn’t the delightful one I enjoyed; it was the impatient, ‘get me out of this high-chair’ one.

“In a minute, baby. Just let me get these dishes done.”

She started to cry, slamming her sippy cup on the plastic tray before throwing it on the floor.

“Angel!” I spun around with a scowl. “I’m asking for five minutes. Give me a break!” I wiped my forehead with my arm, managing to smear my cheek with dish suds. I groaned, snatching the towel off the counter.

Angel continued to cry.

“Not long,” I sing-songed, putting on the sweetest voice I could muster.

She’d been clingy all day, and I knew the second I let her out of that high-chair, she’d want me to hold her. The dishes had been piling up all day, and I was running out of clean cutlery and plates. This was my only chance.

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