We All Sleep Alone by Calle J. Brookes

Author:Calle J. Brookes [BROOKES, CALLE J]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781948328081
Publisher: Calle J. Brookes

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Jennifer liked to hold his hand, but only when Reggie slept. He wouldn’t tolerate it otherwise. Not her big, strong, masculine son. She’d loved to hold his hand when he’d been a boy. He was a dream child. He always had been.

Jennifer should have seen through Dennis Lee. Should have known how corrupted that sonofabitch was.

Hell, Jennifer had. She’d known and enjoyed it. She never would have expected him to turn on her like he had. To take her Reggie, her son, from her like this. Her son had once been strong, fit, muscled. Healthy. He was a pale shadow of himself, hooked up to machines. Half as many as the week before, but…he hadn’t deserved this.

Someone knocked on the doorjamb softly. She turned.

Kyle stood there. Kyle—he was all she had left besides her son. He’d been her assistant for the last ten years.

Her lover since the night he’d turned twenty-one—eleven years ago.

Not all the time. Just on occasion. He’d been there for her now. He’d found him. He’d found Reggie and gotten him the help he needed.

She’d always love him for that.

“It’s time, Jen.”

She stood. “I’m…ready.”

There was yet another meeting with the attorney today. For Wallace. She hadn’t wanted to go, but Kyle had convinced her it was the right thing to do.

Technically, she was still married to Wallace, after all.

He was Reggie’s father. She owed it to Reggie to be there for Wallace when Reggie couldn’t. Especially now.

What had happened to Reggie had been a massive blow to Wallace. A blow Jennifer would never have meant to cause. But she had.

Wallace loved Reggie so much.

Jennifer had to know what had happened. She had to.

Reggie had nearly died. Dennis Lee, that selfish bastard, had died. And Carl…she bit back a sob.

Of all the men she had ever loved, Carl Buchanan had loved her the most. Even more than Wallace.

She hadn’t appreciated that until he was taken from her.

Jennifer had taken advantage of him so many times. She’d known Carl had loved her, had been waiting for her to leave Wallace for him. She’d abused his love and devotion.

Carl hadn’t been exciting. He’d been steady, stable, reliable. She had always been able to count on him. Now, she was losing him.

She prayed so hard for Carl every night.

Jennifer had stopped by his hospital room first. She made a point of going to sit with him every second or third time she visited Reggie.

She couldn’t let her relationship with Carl get out there in the public eye. An affair with a married woman would destroy Carl. If he ever woke up from what Dennis Lee had done to him.

She had known they were brothers. Just how much hatred there was in Dennis Lee’s heart—she had missed it.

She didn’t know what she would have done if she hadn’t, though.

Her entire relationship with Dennis Lee had been one of avarice. Self-serving.

Karma was on her footsteps now. Karma wearing Jake MacNamara’s face.

Jake MacNamara’s goons were getting deeper into her business. Her life.

It was only

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