Something Old (Brides of Cedar Bend Book 1) by Lena Hart

Author:Lena Hart [Hart, Lena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Maroon Ash Publishing
Published: 2016-03-27T16:00:00+00:00

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Guy looked up from the reports he was reviewing when his mother burst into his office. She didn’t stop until she was standing beside his desk, peering down at him from behind her gold-framed eyeglasses. Her lips were set in hard lines. This was bad.

“Ma, what—”

“Did you do that to her?”

“Do what? To who?”

Her eyes narrowed. “Here, let me jog your memory.” In a blur, her hand lashed out and smacked him on the side of the head.

“Ma!” He frowned, rubbing his head. “What the hell was that for?”

She said nothing. Just stood there, pursing her red lips and planting her hands on her hips. He endured the silence for a while longer, determined to wait her out—glare for glare.

In the end, she won.

With a weary sigh, Guy threw his pen down on the desk and leaned back in his seat. “Ma, I don’t have time to get into it with you today. I have a lot of work—”

“Have I ever laid my hands on you in anger when you were a kid?”

“What?”

“Have I?”

“No. Not until today, anyway,” he muttered bitterly, absently rubbing the still-tender spot on his head.

“Have you ever seen me let a man raise his voice to me, much less his hands, since your father?”

“No, because I wouldn’t let that happen.”

“And I won’t let you go on abusing Mya.”

Guy straightened in his seat. “What are you talking about?”

“Did you or did you not put that bruise on her arm?”

He stared at his mother blankly until her words finally registered. “Shit,” he muttered, running his hand over his face.

He remembered how angry he’d been with Mya last night, but he hadn’t realized he’d been so rough. He’d never been jealous in his life, but seeing Mya in the arms of another man—even if it was a good friend of his—had brought up so many insecurities in him.

“I raised you better than that, Guy. I won’t tolerate you getting violent with her.”

“Ma—”

“If Marvin could see how you’re treating his daughter, he would rise from his grave and beat the crap out of you. And I would let him!”

His mother gave him a glare that made him feel smaller than his six-two frame. It was the same look she’d given him when he was ten and been suspended for breaking Cody Fischer’s nose. He’d felt like shit then. Not because he’d broken the boy’s nose—the son-of-a-bitch deserved it for talking about his mother—but that one look had said how disappointed she was with him, and Guy never wanted to see that look on her face again.

He blew out a breath. “Ma, would you settle down? I didn’t mean to hurt her.”

“What you meant to do doesn’t matter. We’re talking about what you did, and I’m very disappointed in you right now.”

Heat rose to his cheeks. For the first time in his adult life, he was thoroughly contrite. He didn’t think he could feel any more like shit than he did now.

“I’m sorry—”

“I don’t want to hear it,” she snapped, waving his words away.

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