[Indecent 01.0] An Indecent Proposition by Stephanie Julian

Author:Stephanie Julian [Julian, Stephanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Moonlit Night Publishing
Published: 2013-12-22T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

“And you’re going out with two men? Not just one man who’s bringing another along as a friend?”

“Yes. Two men. They’re friends, they own a business together and they both want to take me out.”

Jules’ mom gave her “the look,” the one Jules recognized from her childhood.

She’d seen it thousands of times as a teenager as she’d smashed through boundaries, convinced she knew what she was doing, and gave a (sometimes) implicit middle finger to whoever told her she couldn’t do something.

Amazingly, her mom still spoke to her, still loved her.

“And you’re going where?”

“I’m not sure.”

“And what do they do for a living?”

Tricky, tricky. Her mom was no fool. She knew this had something to do with their debt being paid off and Jules wondered, for about the millionth time, if she should just come clean.

Slipping simple gold hoops through her ears, Jules glanced at her mom in the mirror.

With her dark brows raised and her arms crossed over her chest, she looked pretty much the same as she had when Jules was a teenager, not buying her excuses for why she was late getting home.

Her mom knew there was a hell of a lot more going on than just a date.

“They run an electronics company.”

She didn’t plan to add that they ran a multi-million dollar electronics company.

Slipping her feet into red pumps, she turned to check her reflection in the long mirror in her bedroom, the walls still sporting the black and purple paint she’d christened them with in her senior year of high school. Actually, she still loved the color combination. “I’ll have my cell. Don’t worry.”

Her mom gave her the “other look,” which basically meant “Yeah, right.” Another expression Jules was familiar with.

Her mom worried about everything and had since Jules had been born, apparently. Not that she didn’t have good cause to worry. Her husband had been cheating on her. That lump in her breast had been malignant. And Jules had slept with two men to get the money to pay off their debt.

Turning to face her mom, Jules leaned in for a hug, so happy to feel the strength in her mom’s arms as she returned the hug. For a couple of years, Sara Carter had barely been able to lift her arms.

“Julianne, you’d tell me if something was wrong, wouldn’t you? You know you can tell me anything, right?”

“Yes, mom.” She infused her tone with just enough teenage boredom that her mom actually laughed. “I’ll be fine.”

Her mom gave her another tight squeeze before taking a step back. “I’ll always worry. Mothers never stop.”

“I know. It’s just…complicated.”

Complicated didn’t begin to describe what she felt for Keegan and Erik. Or what she’d done to get the money. Or the first night they’d spent together. Or last night and this morning. Or even this dinner.

With a sigh, her mom walked to the doorway then turned and gave her a resigned smile. “Everything’s complicated, honey. Some things just take a little more work. You have to decide if it’s worth it, I guess.

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