Mountain Daddy by Celia Crown

Author:Celia Crown [Crown, Celia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-04T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Callen

That vicious woman doesn’t give up.

She doesn’t stop fussing and angrily demanding Eden to return with her. Her husband stays silent at the side while the investigator and the sheriff are brushed aside as their presence is not important in this setting.

She demands that a doctor do a physical on her to prove that harm was done under the skin and in her psyche.

Fury is an inadequate way of describing what I feel for the accusation, this woman knows next to nothing about our relationship and she is adamant that I am keeping her from Eden. She doesn’t care about my babygirl, she only wants her to get to the inheritance.

I cross my arms over my chest, leaning on the wall beside the hospital examination room. The doctor is a woman and even then, I put up a fight with the doctor. I don’t want anyone touching Eden, woman or not.

Her parents wanted to be in there when the doctor jots down her findings and a part of me hates knowing another pair of eyes get to see my babygirl naked. A small whisper of doubt in my mind hopes that the doctor will overlook the bruise on her thighs where I had them in my hands.

Rough sex tends to form bruises, especially on her easily marred skin.

If I can't be there for her, then her estranged parents will not step foot near the door with me guarding that piece of wood with my life.

“Sir.”

My eyes move from the wall to watch Eden’s father step forward, I let out a warning growl from my throat. The mother scoffs under her breath, but the man stops in his track as to not anger me. The simmering irritation boils under my skin, blood running scalding slow like a snake crawling up my arms to coil their body around my neck.

My chest expands for air, my temper flares at the pathetic excuse of a father. From all the stories Eden told me, I gather that is a weak man who’s too scared to go against his tiger wife.

“May I speak to Eden after her examination?”

My nails dig into my palm and what he had said bothered me, and the way he reflectively stares at the wall behind me while pretending to look at me.

Coward, I mentally hiss.

He is her father, and he is asking permission from me, his daughter’s kidnapper, to let him see her. It irks me that this man has not once stood up for Eden, doesn’t fight for his daughter, and he sure as hell not acting like father if he’s speaking calmly and formally as if his daughter is a product that he needs to examine.

“I wish to return something of hers,” he adds, catching my silence as his answer.

“Hand it over.” I open my hand as I wait for something to drop into my palm.

His Adam's apple bobs as he clears his throat to sound more confident than he actually is, which only lowers my opinion of him further.

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