Take a Chance on Me (Baymoor Book 3) by D. A. Young

Author:D. A. Young [Young, D. A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-10-08T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Annabelle was just wrapping her braids for the night when her phone went off. Picking it up from her nightstand, she read it with pursed lips and debated the message.

The night’s not over. Meet me in the kitchen.

After the club, Annabelle insisted on coming home. On the way, Graham explained his relationship with Shayla, but it didn’t change the way Annabelle was feeling. At the front door, she’d stiffly thanked Graham for taking her out, kissed his cheek then bolted up the stairs. She was feeling foolish for thinking that it was okay to let her hair down and have a normal relationship. She wasn’t just ‘Annabelle’ anymore; she was a mom and tonight, her daughter had come under fire. After checking on Rory, she took a shower and resisted the urge to look out her window as she had every night since Graham moved into the casita. Her phone went off again.

I know you’re not sleeping. Don’t make me come and get that ass.

Annabelle rolled her eyes but hopped up knowing he was crazy enough to do it. She tip-toed down the hallway and stairs to the kitchen where Graham sat at the table in a white tank top and pajama bottoms. His laptop was set up in front of him. Annabelle stopped in the entryway, pointedly ignoring the mirth he was trying to contain at her cow-dotted pajamas. “That’s right, buddy, chuckle it up. What do you want?”

“Thanks for not wearing the face mask,” he drawled. “I would have known you were trying to seduce me if the green slime made an appearance. My heart wouldn’t have been able to survive it, temptress.” Graham cut the teasing when she didn’t respond. “How are you feeling?”

Annabelle fiddled with the cow-faced buttons on her top. “I’m feeling a little out of element if you really want to know.” She flung her hands up in frustration. “I decide to make what I thought was a positive change in my life, and next thing you know, I’m throwing MMA blows up in the club! That doesn’t exactly fit in with the low-key, toxic-free life I’ve gotten used to living. I was looking for something…normal. Do—can you understand that?”

“No.”

“What do you mean no? As in, no, you don’t think I’m deserving of an ordinary relationship?” Annabelle fumed. “Or, no, you can’t participate in one?”

Swiftly, Graham rose and closed the distance between them. He gripped her chin and tilted her face up until their eyes met and held. “Both. Because you and I? We’re anything but ordinary, love. I come from a background that makes me thankful that I didn’t turn into a product of my environment.”

The disgust in his voice silenced Annabelle. Graham’s eyes were chips of ice, and his mouth was set in a hard, uncompromising line. “My mother was a drug addicted whore, and my father was her pimp. They were sick, twisted, abusive people who never should have had children. They soured me and my sisters on relationships, and we never allowed ourselves to even entertain the notion of having one.

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