BUILT_The Mountain Man's Babies_A Secret Baby & Second Chance Romance by Frankie Love

Author:Frankie Love [Love, Frankie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-10-30T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Josie

I don't know what is happening, but it's bad. I look at my father and it's as if he's seen a ghost--but my dad doesn't believe in the supernatural--he only believes in what he can see with his own two eyes.

Facts and justice and honor and integrity. Those are the pillars that rule his life.

"What is it?" I ask, looking from him to the man beside me. The man who has shown me what it means to open my heart to love when I least expected to find it. The man who swept into my diner and sat down to eat and somehow filled the empty spaces of my heart within a few days.

But something is wrong. Beau's face is tense, his eyes narrow, anger rising in him and he takes a step back from my father.

"Beau, this is my dad, Judge Michael Smith."

"Smith." Beau looks at me. "I knew you were Josie Smith, but this... he can't...

Beau looks like he's seen a ghost too. Or maybe his scariest nightmare.

"What the hell is this man doing here, with you, Josie?" Dad asks with a steady voice that tells me something serious is happening. Dad has always been able to see through the bullshit and understand right from wrong. When his voice gets low and gravelly it is because he isn't messing around.

"What?" I ask, shaking my head in confusion. "Daddy, why are you getting so mad?" I wasn't expecting sunshine and rainbows from this first dinner together, but I also wasn't expecting such hostility. "This is Beau. Beau Montgomery. My boyfriend."

"Your what?" Dad nearly chokes as he asks the question.

"My boyfriend."

"I heard that," Dad says. "But this man is--"

Beau looks at me, the hurt in his eyes palpable. "Your father was the judge who sent me to prison, Josie. He is the man who--" Beau stops. And I can see by his clenched fists that he is ready to burst with rage. I've never seen him mad. Sad, sure, when he confessed to me the story of his past, but this emotion is something else entirely. This is fury.

"The man who determined that you should remain behind bars," my dad says vehemently. "I remember you, Beau Montgomery. How dare you try and--"

"He didn't do it, Dad," I say. "He's innocent." But even as I say it, I find myself second guessing my words.

How could my dad, the most respected man I know, who has spent his career determining right from wrong--be wrong now?

But then I look at Beau, his story having sounded so genuine, so honest... suddenly sounding foolish if I were to repeat it to my dad.

"This can't be happening, Josie. This bastard and you... He told you he was innocent? Even though the evidence pointed to this piece of work? You need to leave. You aren't welcome in my home. Not now, not ever."

I look at Beau, his eyes burning with anger as I reach for him, not wanting him to leave. But he flinches at my touch.

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