Sugar: A Single Dad Romance (Honey Book 2) by Terri E. Laine

Author:Terri E. Laine [Laine, Terri E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-01-27T18:30:00+00:00

10

Jake

I caught Jamie and wrapped my arms around her.

“Sorry I wasn’t here this morning when you woke up,” I said in her ear and then kissed her cheek.

Her little arms tightened around my neck and a lump formed in my throat.

Dad was still grumbling. Jacque had been right. He kept talking about a poker game, debt owed, and Mom. None of it made sense to me. I left him striding over to the office muttering to himself and kept an eye on him. I didn’t want him to disappear again.

“Did you eat dinner?” I asked my daughter.

“Yes.” She pointed at Honey.

I wasn’t sure of my reception. I met her eye. Then I put Jamie on her feet. “Why don’t you find a movie for us to watch?”

She bobbed her head and skipped to the coffee table to pick up on the remote. When the TV flipped on, I walked into the kitchen on the other side of the massive island to put as much distance between my daughter and me. I didn’t want her to accidently overhear one word that was said.

I stopped three feet in front of Honey. “I’m sorry.”

All her anger from before was gone. When she didn’t call me a rat bastard, I stepped forward.

“Stop,” she said softly. “We can’t. Besides, I plan to contact the agency to be reassigned.”

“Honey,” I pleaded.

She continued to shake her head. “I know you don’t want to be with Tara, but I don’t think you’ve given her enough of a chance and I can’t be here to witness it. Jamie needs—”

“Jamie doesn’t need a mother like her in her life, especially when that mother tries to rape her father.”

That word rape sounded foreign on my tongue, but it was the quickest and easiest way to explain what had happened.

Honey looked on the verge of laughing until she noticed my impassive face. She stepped closer to me after a glance in Jamie’s direction.

“What happened?”

The fact her fist balled brought joy back in my heart. Maybe there was still hope after all.

“She drugged me and I woke up with her trying to ride my dick.”

Honey gasped and covered her mouth. “But how did she manage to drug you?”

I stepped closer still. Less than a few inches separated us.

“She brought me a beer wanting to clear the air. I hadn’t touched it and didn’t plan to. Then Dad came out and let it out that he’d caught her sleeping with a ranch hand we had at the time when I was deployed. He caught them right about the time I came home on leave and Jamie was conceived.”

Her eyes doubled in size, putting two and two together. “She admitted it?”

I nodded. “After I told her to leave, she dropped that little nugget about you being married and showed me a headline.” I shook my head. “I should have questioned it. Instead, I drank that beer down, so messed up over the two bombs she’d dropped.”

She clasped my hands and I met her eyes. “No. I mean, yes, I wish you would have asked me about it instead of accusing me.

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