Worth the Wait (Picking up the Pieces Book 4) by Prince Jessica

Author:Prince, Jessica [Prince, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Contemporary Romance
Published: 2015-01-27T05:00:00+00:00

It was easy for Kenzie to put on a brave front around me when there was a way for her to keep me at a distance, but having lived in my house for the past week, there were certain things she couldn’t hide. Things that made me want to find the fuckers who had hurt her in the past and pound the ever loving shit out of them. What was worse, I was beginning to see things in the twins’ actions that made me downright murderous.

The evening after they moved in, Callie was drinking a glass of juice and accidentally spilled some of it on the floor. She immediately dropped her head and closed herself off. I couldn’t get her to talk to me for the rest of the night, no matter how hard I tried.

When I’d get home from work, dinner would already be done, the table set, drinks poured. It was a full on Leave it to Beaver family spread. After the third night, I’d informed Kenzie that she didn’t have to make me dinner every single night, but she was insistent. When I told her the least I could do was clean the kitchen after she cooked, she simply shrugged and told me she was just doing her part. If it wasn’t the cooking, it was the laundry, or the cleaning, or the yard work. If she could find something that needed to be done around the house, she was determined to do it.

But the moment that finally did me in was when Cam was playing in the living room and accidentally knocked a picture frame off one of the shelves, breaking the glass. I rushed over to make sure he hadn’t cut himself, but he’d cowered away from my touch before finally taking off into the bedroom he and Callie were sharing. Enough was enough. I’d had it with the fucking walking-on-eggshells routine.

Storming into the kitchen, I’d found Kenzie exactly where I knew she’d be, perched in front of the stove, watching over dinner like a hawk. It was as if she was terrified to let anything burn. Flipping off the burners, I ignored her protests and grabbed her by the wrist, dragging her through the back door and into the yard.

“What the hell, Brett! I’m in the middle of making dinner. It’s going to burn if I don’t get back in there.”

“Then let it burn, Kenzie! That’s what happens sometimes. Dinners burn. Drinks spill, glass breaks, accidents happen. It’s not the end of the world.” I saw those shutters of hers start to slide into place, and I knew I couldn’t let that happen.

“Beauty, you and those kids don’t have to be perfect, not here. You don’t need to do all of this. You don’t have to work all day, then come home just to start all over again. I moved y’all in here because I wanted you safe, not because I wanted a maid service.”

Her head dipped down in an attempt to hide the tears that were forming in her jade eyes.

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