Temper Me (Romey University Book 3) by Alexandria House

Author:Alexandria House [House, Alexandria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pink Cashmere Publishing, LLC
Published: 2022-04-25T18:30:00+00:00

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Hours had passed, she’d turned the light off, and we were skin to skin in her bed. The bed was so damn small I should’ve been uncomfortable but being this close to her with her leg thrown over mine, her face buried in my chest, I’d never felt so comfortable. Nothing in my life had ever felt so right.

I dropped my lips to her forehead, softly kissing it, thinking she was asleep until her voice penetrated the darkness.

“I grew up really poor. My mom was young when she had me—eighteen, and she struggled to provide for us. My dad says he tried to help but she was so mad at him, she wouldn’t let him. She hated him. She still hates him. Shit, for a while, I hated him too.”

“You don’t now?” I asked.

I felt her shake her head as she said, “No. He broke her heart but he loves me. I’m sure of that and he helps me now that I’m grown and my mom can’t stop him. Anyway, my grandmother, her mom? She couldn’t help because she was poor too and then she passed away when I was ten. Things were bad when I was a kid, really bad. We moved a lot because we were always getting evicted. We probably lived in every project or low rent apartment in Romey. Rats, roaches, bed bugs, little to no food. No water one week, no lights the next. My mom worked but there was just never enough money until she met Doyle.”

“Doyle?” I asked, rubbing my hand over her arm.

“A guy she met when I was like fifteen. He had money and didn’t mind sharing it with her. After him were Eddie and John and Roland, all men with money, and gone were the cheap apartments and bug infestations and empty-stomach nights. Things were better, but I was always scared they’d go back to shit, you know?”

“Yeah, I can see that. What about now?”

“Now…I’m good for the most part. I get a lot of help from my aunt.”

“Your mom?”

She breathed a mirthless chuckle. “My mom…I…she loves me, but I don’t think she knows how to support me now. She never expected me to go to college and she sees me as an adult who shouldn’t need her help, just like her mother saw her. It’s cool, though. I get it. I just…sometimes I get sad out of nowhere, like tonight.”

“You still sad?” I asked. “I got more work to do?”

“Unh-uh. I’m all good now, thanks to you.”

“Good. Hey, Brooklyn?”

“Yeah?”

“If you ever need anything, and I mean anything at all, I got you. Okay? I don’t care where I am in the world. I got you.”

“Okay.”

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