S03 Don't Say a Word by Jaynes Jennifer

Author:Jaynes, Jennifer [Jaynes, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery
Published: 2016-05-02T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER 21

WHEN THEY RETURNED home from Dallas, Johnny’s truck was parked in the driveway. Allie’s face grew hot. Johnny wasn’t free just to drop in anymore. Didn’t he know that?

She threw the truck into park and glimpsed Johnny sitting on the porch, shielding his eyes from the bright beams of the headlights. She asked Bitty to unbuckle a sleeping Sammy from his car seat and put him to bed, then she stepped out into the chilly night and marched up to Johnny.

When he saw her, he stood and opened his arms. “Hey, li’l bit. Welcome home.”

“What do you think you’re doing?” she demanded.

“Well, I didn’t think it would be a good idea to go in, so I just waited out here.”

“That’s not what I meant,” she snapped. “I meant what are you doing here? At my house?”

“Whoa, there. I just came here to see my boy. And you, too, of course.”

“Yeah? Well, when did you get here?”

“I don’t know. About twenty minutes ago? Thirty? Why?”

Just as she suspected. “It’s almost ten o’clock and you’re telling me you came to see Sammy, who has an eight-thirty bedtime? Who’s had an eight-thirty bedtime for almost three years now?” She stared at him, incredulous. “That’s bullshit, Johnny. You didn’t drive here to see your son, and you know it.”

He shrugged. “I would’ve been here earlier, but you weren’t answering my texts.”

Since Allie’d seen him last, she’d received about fifty texts. All I miss yous and I love yous, and let’s work this out, but he hadn’t mentioned Sammy once. That fact hadn’t been lost on her then, and wasn’t lost on her now.

After Bitty, Zoe, and Sammy were safely inside and had time to clear the foyer, Allie led Johnny into the house, but stopped him as he tried to walk into the living room.

“Look, we need to have a talk. A serious one,” he said. “I’ve been thinking about things. A lot of things.”

“What things?”

His brown eyes held hers. “Let’s move in together,” he blurted out. “Get a place of our own. I want to give you and Sammy that. You guys deserve that.”

It was too little, way too late. She was done with Johnny as a boyfriend . . . or whatever it was that he’d been the last several years. Ending things with him had been the right thing to do. She only wished she’d done it sooner.

Now he was just Sammy’s father. The only serious discussions they would need to have would be centered around Sammy and Sammy only.

Johnny’s mouth spread into a smile. “So what do you think? Wouldn’t that be nice? A place of our own? A safer, calmer place for Sammy to live? Just think, having Sammy around weird kids like those little girls all the time can’t be good, Allie.”

Anger flared in her belly. “Weird kids?”

A floorboard creaked. Allie turned and saw Zoe peeking from around the corner.

“Is everything okay?” Allie asked. “Do you need something?”

“Sorry,” Zoe said. “I just wanted some water, but I didn’t want to .

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