Seduced (Book 1) by Kathryn Thomas

Author:Kathryn Thomas
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: motorcycle club romance, mc romance, bad boy contemporary romance, secret baby romance, biker romance, fake wedding romance
Publisher: eBook Publishing World
Published: 2020-04-09T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

Bri

After a week of Slick being back, I’ve rarely seen him. I’ve passed him in the club and I’ve serviced his bike, but we’ve never gotten as close as when he first returned, when we almost kissed. I don’t know if it has something to do with Charlotte, or if he is just busy with club stuff, but either way it annoys me. Perhaps unfairly—it’s not like I throw myself at him or anything—but it still annoys me. We were close, once, closer than I’ve ever been with anybody. Now it’s like something’s changed in him, like his time in Seattle has left an indelible mark on who he is as a person. I am beginning to think that the Slick who left and the Slick who returned might not be exactly the same man.

“What are you doing in there?” Heather says, banging on the bathroom door. “This babysitter needs to piss!”

Perhaps sitting on the toilet isn’t the best place to reflect on all this, though. I finish up, wash my hands, and then join Charlotte in the living room. She’s obsessed with her picture book, and keeps telling me about pandas. Cute as hell, don’t get me wrong, but I’m also long overdue for a night out. The last time I went out was around four months ago, for Christmas. Now it’s springtime and I think it’s time I flowered, but just a little. When Heather returns—navigating the discarded toys and books on the floor—she sits on the couch and makes a cooing noise at Charlotte.

“So, are you excited about tonight?” she asks.

“I’m just going to the bar with some of the club people,” I say. “It’s no big deal.”

“Maybe you’ll meet a man,” Heather says. “A non-club man. Maybe a banker, or a baker; I’m not particular, to be honest, but I would love to see you with a man who doesn’t earn his living in oil and blood.”

I sigh, and just let her continue.

“I never approved of your mother getting involved with Grizzly, and I don’t approve of you getting involved with those leather-wearing bandits.”

“They’re not as bad as you think, Heather . . . especially Dad.”

Heather blushes, and turns away. She made the mistake of telling me one night when she was drunk that she thinks Dad is handsome, for a leather-wearing bandit, that is. “Why don’t you do some online dating,” Heather continues, plowing ahead. Outside, the street is silent, inside, the apartments around us are silent, Charlotte is unusually silent as she watches Heather, captivated, so Heather’s tirade, for the moment, is the only noise in existence. What a tortuous existence. “Do some online dating and find a nice, kind, normal man. Find a man who knows how to behave in a civilized way. You are not a Jane; you don’t need a Tarzan. The days when a man had to sweat and swear and spit and fight to be a man are long, long gone, kiddo. When you’re an old bitch like me, you’ll understand what really matters, and you’ll wish you listened.

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