Kisses and Lies: A Anti-Hero Standalone Romance by T.L. Smith

Author:T.L. Smith [Smith, T.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-03-02T18:30:00+00:00

We both are woken again later on when my mother’s at the door with Annabelle in her arms.

“Do you know what time it is?” She pushes her way inside and hands me Annabelle, I take her as she smiles in my arms.

“Hello, beautiful,” I whisper, which earns me a bigger smile. Annabelle giggles and reaches for my nose, pulling it as I hear my mother waking Kat.

“Gosh, will you go away,” I hear Kat complain to my mother.

They don’t get along. And the only reason I think they talk is because Mom is so good with Annabelle, and it is Kat’s only way to have a normal life with the help my mother supports her with.

“I brought your daughter back. A thank you wouldn’t be hard to say, now would it?” I hear her say.

I walk up to my room with Annabelle on my hip, who when she sees her mother, claps her hands to get to her.

Kat’s sour expression changes immediately and she smiles so widely I forget she’s hungover.

“Come to Mama, baby.”

I pass Annabelle to Kat, who snuggles straight into her shoulder.

“Thank you, Mother,” Kat says, looking up at our mother.

“You’re welcome. She’s a pleasure.” Then she walks out, and I follow behind her, leaving Kat and Annabelle on my bed.

“You brought food?” I ask as she places the bag down, pulling out containers on my countertop.

“Yes, I made you two your favorite mince chow mien.”

I walk up and cuddle her from behind. She tenses then relaxes into my touch, tapping my hands holding her.

“We love you, Mom.”

“I know, it’s just been hard.”

I drop my hands from her, and she turns around smiling at me.

“Any boys I should know about?”

Change of subject.

“Nope.”

“Are you sure?” she asks again.

“Nope.”

“What about girls? You know I would be fine with either as long as I get grandbabies.”

“No, to girls as well.”

“Okay, okay,” she says, throwing up her hands. “You’re in your mid-twenties now, Rochelle, you have to start thinking about these things before it gets too late. I had you at twenty-one.”

“I know, Mother,” I say in a sarcastic tone, as I reach for the water and one container of food, taking it to my couch.

“Don’t you ‘Mother’ me. How was your night last night?”

I’m about to answer her when she reaches for something on my coffee table. “Lord Rochelle, you need a cleaner. Why do you not have a cleaner?” She shakes her head and walks to the kitchen.

“She doesn’t need a cleaner for the same reason I don’t need a cleaner, and our night last night was great.” Kat smiles at me, and it’s then I remember Blaze.

Oh Lord, does she remember seeing him? I wonder. The things she said. My eyes go wide at her, and she just blushes.

“Good, good, you’re a mother now, so I don’t expect you to have crazy nights.”

“I’m a mother, yes. But I am not dead,” Kat says, sitting next to me and placing Annabelle between us, then taking my food.

“True, okay.” Mother walks to the door, her bag in hand, and she looks back to us.

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