Trick or Treat by Lexy Timms

Author:Lexy Timms
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: sexy, hot and steamy, sport romance, hired wife, fake girlfriend, happily ever after, sweet love story, romance love, romance love triangle, new adult romance, billionaire obsession, contemporary romance and sex, romance billionaire series, free kindle romance, melody anne billionaire bachelors series, billionaire romance, holiday, holiday romance, romance, billionaire, true love, love and life, golf, bilionaire romance, dark romance, romantic comedy, saga, women's saga, workplace romance, FICTI
Publisher: Dark Shadow Publishing
Published: 2020-04-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

JAMIE STOOD ON HER mother’s front porch, shifting her weight from one foot to the other, struggling to keep her composure. It was difficult facing her mom again after so long. After everything that had happened.

After everything her mother had done to her.

But this wasn’t about how much she was struggling with it, or how she felt about it, or anything like that. This was about the safety of her family, the safety of the children. And she had to do this – she had to take the next step. She wasn’t here for herself. It was the only reason she had the courage to face her mother. The only reason she swallowed her anger about what her mother had done to her over a year ago and spoke to her again.

“Can I come in?” Jamie asked after her mother opened the door, looking surprised to see her.

“Isn’t there a restraining order in place?” her mother asked, glancing over her shoulder at the police cruiser in the driveway. “I swear, I wasn’t close to your home or your family.”

Jamie shook her head. “We are not here because I think you were.” That wasn’t exactly true, but this visit wasn’t about the restraining order or the fact that her mother might have broken it.

At least not yet. She didn’t know all the facts.

Jamie’s mother hesitated but finally nodded, stepping to the side. “You can come in, honey. You know you are always welcome here.”

Jamie pursed her lips together. She didn’t want her mother to tell her that she was welcome at her house. She didn’t want them to be on those terms. At least they were speaking. That was something – she had to find out information and it helped that they weren’t completely hostile toward each other. If it hadn’t been for her mother’s letter, Jamie might not have come here at all. It was only because her mother had tried to apologize that she felt she could reason with her at all.

Jamie looked around the tidy town house as she walked into the living room. The house dripped with her mother’s fine taste. It was a lot smaller than where she would usually live, but Jamie realized that her mother had probably blown through most of her funds on legal fees. Despite it being so close to Halloween, there were no decorations in the house. Her mother had always thought the holiday was childish.

Jamie had hated that growing up. Her friends had had houses decorated from top to bottom, really bringing the Halloween spirit alive.

But, today, Jamie was grateful. The Halloween décor everywhere made her nervous – anxious, even. It just felt so eerie, considering everything else that was going on. Here, in a completely neutral area, she could think straight.

At least, as straight as she could think around her mother.

“Coffee? Tea?” her mother offered.

Jamie shook her head. “No thank you. I don’t have much time.”

Her mother sat down in an armchair opposite her, and Jamie took a deep breath.

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