Daddy's Best Friend Secret (Daddies and Babies Book 2) by Lauren Wood

Author:Lauren Wood [Wood, Lauren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-08-10T04:00:00+00:00

9

Clara

For the most part, Brendan was a fairly reasonable person. He didn’t show huge amounts of emotion, but that had to do with the way that he’d been raised. Whenever he did, though, I’d always felt like I was doing something right, bringing him out of his shell. It had always affirmed to me that I was doing something right.

But not this time.

I wasn’t sure that I’d ever seen him upset about something, and definitely not to this extent. His neck veins looked like they were about to pop out, and his face was so far into a frown that I felt like it was going to get stuck there. He was clearly angry about what I was telling him, and I didn’t know what to do about it.

“Brendan!” I was trying to reason with him again, to try and force him to see it my way that way he would understand. But he was so stubborn that he couldn’t, just for a second, see anyone else’s point of view. But I couldn’t be mad at him for that. I’d known he was like that from the first time I went out with him, and I’d chosen to do so anyway. “I didn’t decide to do this okay, my dad did, and I can’t change it, or he’s going to cut off all funding. I can’t have that happen. Don’t you get it?” I asked.

But he didn’t get it. In fact, I was pretty sure that my words had made the situation worse. “You know what I get, Clara,” he started. “I get the fact that you’re going to live with a man because your father is making you. I get that you seem completely fine with it, and I get that you have intentions on cheating on me with him, because, clearly, everyone thinks he’s a much better suitor for you, then I am.”

I still hadn’t told Brendan that I had already cheated on him with Klaus, because I knew that the second I did, our relationship was as good as gone.

“That’s not true,” I argued. “My father loves you. This isn’t all some elaborate plan to get us together. Stop thinking like that. He’s a friend of my father’s who’s offered to help out. That’s all, Brendan.”

Brendan stared at me, for a long moment before he let out a deep breath. I was sure that it meant he was finally giving in and seeing my side, but I should have known him better than that. His veins were no longer popping, and his face was no longer red. But he didn’t look any less frustrated or angry.

“I don’t believe you.”

Four simple words that shouldn’t have meant anything, but they meant the world to me. Because, in that little sentence, he was making me out to be a liar. I raised my chin, at him, but there was nothing else that really needed to be said between us.

“If that’s really how you feel, then leave.”

And he did. He grabbed his stuff and walked right through the door.

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