Foster: A Stepbrother Romance by Jessica Ashe
Author:Jessica Ashe [Ashe, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-12-05T16:00:00+00:00
That had been painful.
I tried to think of another time in my life where I had apologized to someone, but nothing came to mind. I wasn’t really the apologizing type. I’d never had a girlfriend to grovel to. If a woman demanded I apologize for something I’d done then she was quickly shown the door. I didn’t need that shit in my life.
So why had I apologized to Pierce? Certainly not because I cared about him. And, if I’m honest, I hadn’t done it to please my mother either. I’d done it to impress the one girl I felt the need to make amends with.
I strolled up the stairs towards my room. April might come up and join me, but I didn’t like my chances. Being nice to her dad was just the first step of what would probably be an entire staircase’s worth of them.
I nearly walked into Mom standing at the top of the stairs. She looked pleased with herself.
“I heard what you said in there,” she said, grinning at me. “That was a very nice thing to do.”
I tried to shrug casually, but that wasn’t an easy thing to pull off for a guy of my size. “I just don’t want there to be any awkwardness between us. If we have to spend time together we need to at least be civil.”
“That’s surprisingly mature of you.”
“Yeah, who’d have thought it.”
“I meant what I said about Pierce. He’s a good man, and I can assure you he’s not in this relationship for my money.”
“I know. He told me about the pre-nup.”
Mom looked downstairs to check the coast was clear and then motioned for me to follow her into my room.
“The pre-nup is for Pierce’s benefit not mine,” Mom said quietly.
“Oh for God’s sake. Please don’t tell me you’ve signed away all your money to him? You know, pre-nups are supposed to preserve the wealth of the rich spouse, not piss it all away.”
“And that’s exactly what this pre-nup is doing,” Mom replied. “I have more than enough money to look after myself, and you, if you need it, well into retirement. And so does Pierce.”
I raised my eyebrows, and gave Mom a dismissive look. “No offense, but I can’t imagine a security guard really earns a fraction of the amount you do.”
“No he doesn’t, but he still has a small fortune tucked away.”
“Did he win the lottery or something?”
I knew April had gone to the school that had given her the best scholarship offer, so if Pierce had come into money then it had either been a very recent thing, or April just didn’t know about it.
“Not exactly. He came into money, but paid a heavy price for it.”
“Spit it out, Mom. I have to be back at work in two days.”
“You have to promise not to tell April.”
“Fine,” I replied. “It’s not like we’re close anyway.”
“I’m not so sure about that.” I opened my mouth to refute her insinuation, but she carried on talking. “When Pierce’s wife died, she was a partner at a large law firm.
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