Steele Her Heart: Steel Bros Book 4 by Knox Elizabeth

Author:Knox, Elizabeth
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knox Publishing
Published: 2020-01-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

It is not the strongest of species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

~Charles Darwin

Jordan

“Mom? What are you doing here?” I ask. Before she has the chance to respond, Christian does.

“She’s leaving, going back to the wretched city she came from.” He’s held the most animosity toward her than anyone else. Whereas I give her more leniency than she deserves. She left when we were young, after I wasn’t sick anymore. As a kid I blamed myself for her leaving in the first place, told myself it was because she was so exhausted from needing to be with me all the time.

When I was eleven I was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease. My kidneys failed and I ended up needing a transplant. I don’t remember much about it besides the pain, being exhausted and hearing my parents fighting all the time. Christian was only one when I was diagnosed and went through it all.

I might’ve been post-op for maybe a year when my mom took the girl’s trip she never returned back from. She’d become so distant with us that maybe I wasn’t surprised when she didn’t come back. Christian barely remembered her, but he grew to loathe her for abandoning us. Logan had so much anger and still back then I cut her some slack.

I look to Logan who’s always the more levelheaded of the bunch. While Christian will act out of anger, Logan never will.

Our mother grins, sitting up a bit straighter in the chair that sits on the other side of Logan’s desk. “I’m here for business, sweetie. Something Christian has never seemed to understand from the looks of it.”

Christian is about five seconds away from blowing his gasket. “Are you fucking kidding me? I’m allowed to be pissed at you for up and leaving when I was little. No fucking birthday card, no visits. You just vanished into thin air. I’m allowed to be pissed.”

She nods, digging into her purse and pulls out a cigar, cutting the end and lighting it up, proceeding to smoke. “You’re right. You can be pissed, but holding onto the past doesn’t make you money, little one. It appears your emotions cloud your judgement just as they did with your father. That’s how that little surprise sister of yours was created anyway, because he was weak.”

“You don’t get to come in here and say the shit you are right now. You have no right.” Christian hisses at her.

“I’m so sorry, I didn’t realize anyone was in.” Esme says to me, then looks to Logan who seems like he’s about to burst too.

I place a hand on Esme’s shoulder, “It’s alright. How were you to know?”

“Because it was her job.” Logan seethes.

Both Esme and I are taken aback by Logan’s choice words. There’s no mistaking what he means by that. “Clear out your desk, Esme.” Her mouth falls open and before I can even think of a word to say she rushes out of the room, shutting the door behind her.

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