Forever & Always (Always & Forever Book 2) by Crossley Lauren

Author:Crossley, Lauren [Crossley, Lauren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lauren Crossley
Published: 2015-12-17T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Arthur (Bethany’s father)

She should be here by now. She promised me she would be here for eight and it’s already half past. I’m quickly running out of patience and out of time, growing more and more agitated each day.

It’s been months since I’ve seen her, months since I’ve spoken with my daughter and months since I came up with my initial plan to break up the relationship she threw everything away for.

Realising that my estranged daughter has some sort of personal vendetta against Bethany was absolutely perfect. I couldn’t have scripted it any better myself and thought it would come in useful when it came to the two of us working together with one goal… to destroy them. However, it’s safe to say that things haven’t exactly gone according to plan since we teamed up several months ago.

She’s due here any minute and the suspense is killing me, I’m pacing back and forth and checking my phone every five minutes in case I missed one of her calls. She phoned me this morning to let me know she has some news and would drop by later so she could fill me in. I haven’t been able to focus all day, tormenting myself with the thought of what it might be and I’ve now reached the point where I’m close to losing it all together.

A knock at my front door pulls me out of my deep contemplation and I race towards it, flinging it open in my need to find out if it’s her.

Sarah.

My estranged daughter, Bethany’s half-sister and my accomplice.

“Where the hell have you been?” I chastise her harshly, resenting the fact that she has the nerve to turn up so late.

“I got here as soon as I could.” She retorts, firing a vicious look at me as she makes her way inside.

“It’s not good enough.” I reprimand her once again, not used to dealing with someone as errant as this.

“You really need to learn how to relax.” She informs me, making herself at home on the sofa by taking a seat.

“Just tell me what you know.” I urge her, quickly losing my patience.

“I know that she’s been and told them.” She reveals, twirling a strand of blonde hair around her fingers.

She’s acting as though it’s no big deal, pretending to be bored of our conversation and this arrangement.

“She told them she’s pregnant?” I ask, unable to mask my triumph.

“That’s right… just like I said she would.”

“And they believed her?”

“It’s pretty hard not to, she is pregnant.” She reminds me.

“But they really think that Jake’s the father?”

“He did sleep with her eight months ago, they have every reason to believe her.”

“Good.” I reply, pacing back and forth like I was before. “She won’t tell them the truth, will she? We can trust her?”

“Yes, we can trust her. You’re paying her a lot of money to lie about this… she’s not going to mess it up. I just know this will break them, especially now Bethany is no longer pregnant.”

“You still don’t know what happened there?”

“No idea… all I know is there’s no baby.

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