Pikeman_A Billionaire Romance by Kristen Kelly

Author:Kristen Kelly [Kelly, Kristen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-04-30T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

Amy

Three days later, I was still on cloud nine after spending the weekend with Brock at his parents cottage. Even Penelope didn’t bother me, and I could tell she was trying in earnest. She’d shrunk my favorite sweater, insisted on vacuuming my bedroom while I was reading—something that normally would drive me insane, and when I told her I’d reapplied to school in the fall she’d sneered at me. Actually, looked down he nose as if to say ‘why bother?’ What the hell did she care if I went back to school to finalize my degree?

It hadn’t been easy, making plans to go back to school. I’d had to save every penny of my tips waitressing every weekend at the Thirsty Turtle while fending off more than a few lecherous advances in the process. But I’d done it. I’d saved ten thousand dollars in four years, all of the money we’d spent for the first six months of Dad’s nursing home existence and replacing my inheritance for college. After that, his insurance kicked in. If my father ever knew I’d used my college fund to pay for his room and board, he’d be devastated. That, and that alone, was the only reason I was glad Penelope had written him off. She barely visited him all, so she couldn’t divulge my secret. I knew it had to break his heart, but he’d never let it show. Not once since the accident that claimed his legs did he ask for her and part of me wondered why. But hey, why look a gift horse in the mouth, right? This way she couldn’t reveal any of my secrets.

As little girl, dad was always the most upbeat person. “Don’t anticipate trouble,” he’d always say whenever I would complain, “or worry about what may never happen. Stay in the sunlight.” I didn’t even know if he loved Penelope. I sort of had the feeling that he married her, just six months after my mother died of cancer, to give me another mother. I wished he’d saved himself the trouble.

The sun shone through my window warming me on the quilt. Our quilt! Mine and Brock’s. Just recalling his warm breath upon my cheek, the way he worshipped my naked body had me breathless and missing him like crazy. It had been three days and nothing. No phone calls. No texts. Just silence. Part of me wondered if it had been a dream. The other part of me worried. I was proud that he was a fireman, but it scared me even more. What if something happened? Would the other firefighters know to get in touch with me? Had he told them about me at all? Not wanting to face those very personal questions, I picked up a photograph of my mother on the bedside table. “I’ve met someone,” I told the image of my mother. “Oh mom, you’d love him. I know you would. He’s sweet and kind and guess what? He’s a fireman like grand dad!” I kissed the frame and then placed it back on the stand.

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