The Billionaire by Jordan Silver

Author:Jordan Silver [Silver, Jordan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-01-18T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

She was awake when I got to the bedroom with her snack. She looked so small and lost it tore at my heart. I knew she was afraid and that more than anything else pissed me the fuck off. She shouldn’t have to be afraid.

Her leg and arm will mend, but fear is something that lived inside and was hard to exorcise. She alone knows the terror that she felt at the hands of these people, not even my anger can negate that.

Looking at her brought me to a decision, something I thought I would never do now made perfect sense. I hope to God it was the right thing to do.

"Hey Blossom, after you've eaten, I'd like to talk over some things with you okay?" She nodded her head as she took her salad.

She still had that wary look in her eyes; she was too young for this shit. How had I forgotten that she was this young? She was still weeks away from her eighteenth birthday and I felt guilt pull at me.

I'd gotten a seventeen-year old girl pregnant. The fact that she was my wife didn't do much to alleviate the guilt, the fact that she wasn't the first eighteen year old to get pregnant nor even the fact that it was perfectly legal here didn’t help much either. I still felt...wrong somehow, fuck. I watched her as she ate her salad making sure she was eating enough.

"I'm not being a very good wife am I?"

"What? What do you mean?" I took the empty salad plate from her and put it on the night table, passing her the cut up melon.

"Well, I'm supposed to be taking care of you and I haven't, I got sick and you have to take care of me..."

"Baby, first off you didn't just get sick you got hurt, but we'll come back to that later. It's my responsibility to take care of you as much as it's yours to take care of me, never think that way. Do you think I would let you do anything now while you're in this position?"

"But it's wrong...."

"No it's not; get that out of your head right now. I know you don't have a great example of what marriage should be but a real marriage is not about you taking care of our home or me. It's about us loving each other in all ways and taking care of each other. If I was hurt wouldn't you take care of me?"

"Of course, but I'm supposed to, isn't it the woman's place to do those things? I don't think men like to have to do these things." My baby is stuck in the damn stone ages, no doubt this was something she’d learned from her asshole dad in one of his attempts to brainwash her. I almost laughed at the idea of someone telling Tula that shit she’d most likely brain the fuck before she kneed him in the balls. But my Blossom said it in all seriousness.

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