Queen's Move (The Queens Book 2) by Nikita Slater

Author:Nikita Slater [Slater, Nikita]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-02-14T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Five

The week that Vee and Raina spent getting to know each other was the best that Vee had ever experienced. Raina came to Vee’s room every day and spent hours with her, telling her about her life with her adoptive parents, her time at University, her friends, everything. Vee soaked up each new fact like a starving woman. She thought, if this moment ever came, that it would hurt to hear about her daughter’s life separate from hers. But instead of jealousy over her missed time, she could only feel gratitude that Raina had grown into such a lovely young woman.

Vee had more difficulty sharing her own life with Raina, after their first conversation. There wasn’t much about her past that she was proud of or that was good enough that it wouldn’t be a burden for Raina to know. So instead, Vee encouraged her daughter to talk about herself. Once Raina started to set aside the hurt she’d carried with her since childhood, she was happy to open up to her birth mother. And Vee was more than happy to listen. She loved knowing that, despite Raina’s serious health issues, she’d experienced a contented life. For that, Vee felt she owed Diane and Joe Duncan. They’d done exactly as they’d promised, given Raina everything that Vee couldn’t.

Raina showed a maturity for her years that Vee was proud of. Raina was intelligent, determined and independent. She was in the process of putting herself through school, paying for it through a part-time job and her forgery set-up. Vee had wanted to pay Raina’s way through University, but the girl was sharp and old enough to have questioned where the money came from. So Vee had watched from the shadows, ready to step in if it looked like Raina was struggling. Far from struggling though, the child had used her keen mind and kept her own source of funds flowing. Vee was pretty sure that she should scold the girl for doing something illegal, that as a parent she was supposed to try to steer her child on the straight and narrow, but she couldn’t seem to summon any disapproval. She was impressed with Raina for finding a relatively harmless but lucrative method of supplementing her income.

The more time Vee spent with Raina the more her hatred toward Sotza waned. Despite his less than savoury method of procuring her child, he was still responsible for reuniting the two women. He also encouraged them to spend as much time as they wanted together in the week leading up to the wedding.

Though grudgingly, Vee was also grateful for the safe environment that Sotza provided for their reunification. She couldn’t have contact with Raina while she was under Tony’s thumb and she couldn’t risk contact after she became the queen of Miami. At that point she’d had to let the idea of ever seeing Raina again go. She couldn’t risk enemies catching wind of her weakness. Especially when she experienced so many problems from the Mexican cartel.

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