Fighting Back (Harrow Book 2) by Finn Scarlett

Author:Finn, Scarlett [Finn, Scarlett]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: SFinn
Published: 2015-10-12T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

The kitchen was filled with fresh food and beverages and everything that they could need for a prolonged stay. Ivy picked some fruit from the bowl on the kitchen island, then she retrieved a bowl and a board to chop it on.

Casting her attention around, she focused on the drawer that had been locked during her last stay here. This time, it slid open without a hitch. Selecting a knife, Ivy went to work on peeling and chopping the fruit to put together a salad for breakfast.

It was while she was squeezing some oranges for juice that the kitchen door swung open, and Carina came in wearing an ankle length skirt and gauze shirt over a basic tank top.

‘Good morning,’ Carina said.

‘Morning,’ she reciprocated but kept on juicing.

‘I’m sorry that you and Dax didn’t join us last night,’ Carina said, crossing to sit at the island Ivy was working on.

‘It was a long night. We just went to bed.’

‘I know that this is difficult, for all of us.’

‘It is,’ Ivy said. ‘But there’s no reason to make it more difficult than it has to be.’

Pouring the last of the juice into the jug, she then transferred it to the fridge. Scooping some of the fruit salad into an individual bowl, Ivy covered the rest and put it into the fridge too.

‘Is that for Dax?’

‘The fruit salad?’ Ivy smirked. ‘No, he likes his fruit whole, and the only breakfast he has is tar thick coffee and the occasional donut or three when they’re around.’

‘He didn’t look like the type to enjoy deep fried food.’

‘I don’t think he’s met a junk food that he doesn’t like,’ Ivy said, taking another mouthful of fruit. She chewed and sucked out the juice but eventually swallowed. ‘He runs and works out all the time, so he needs the energy. And he’s a believer in everything in moderation.’ As she said it, Ivy immediately thought of at least two things he didn’t mind overindulging in, one of which was her.

‘You must think that this is odd,’ Carina said, smoothing a towel that lay folded on the counter. ‘I’m his mother, but I don’t know a thing about him.’

‘Dax isn’t an easy guy to get to know,’ Ivy said. ‘Why are you doing this? I mean, why are you here?’

‘I haven’t heard of him for so long and—‘

‘Look,’ Ivy said, shoving her bowl back so that she could lean on the counter. ‘You won’t win any points with me or Dax by bullshitting us, we have quite an accurate radar for that kind of shit.’

‘You’re a tough woman.’

To go with her tough guy, yeah, that made sense. But it wasn’t her job to make friends with the mother of her husband, Ivy knew her job now was to protect him, not to prioritise building bridges.

‘You came here for money,’ Ivy said. ‘Mauri said it to us at the mansion. You’ll get a lot further with both of us if you’re honest.’

‘Mauri tracked me down,’ she said. ‘But that doesn’t mean I don’t want to get to know my son… and the woman he loves of course.

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