Hard to Resist by Christine L'Amour

Author:Christine L'Amour [L'Amour, Christine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-09T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Mallory wouldn’t leave it there, of course she wouldn’t. The three thousand was certainly hers now. She might have had her pride, but she also had bills to pay and a college fund to try and fill. She wasn’t going to give this money back now they had given it to her, no matter what reasons they had to do it. But that didn’t mean she would simply take the money and leave it be.

She wanted to talk to them.

Well, she didn’t. She didn’t want to see their faces or hear their voices outside of a situation where they would be apologizing to her for all they had done and said to her, which she knew would not happen. But she did want to know why they had done this now. Why they had gone through the trouble. Why it mattered enough that they reached out.

A loud meow snapped her out of her thoughts. She stared down at where the Bastard was sitting at her feet, pawing at her leg, and begging to be fed.

“Leave me to my dinner,” she said to him. “I knew it was a bad idea to let you up to the apartment. You will be insufferable from now on.”

He meowed again. Mallory picked him up and deposited him on her lap, where he settled down easily.

“Bastard,” she said, “what should I do? Should I send them a message? I don’t want to bring them to this dump of a place and I don’t have the money to take them to lunch or something. If I invite them but don’t pay for them, they’ll think I’m stupid and rude and poor.”

It chirped. She picked a small piece of shredded chicken from her plate and gave it to him.

“You’re right,” Mallory said. “I am stupid and rude and poor.”

She sighed. Before she could pick up her fork again to finish her dinner, her phone rang. She answered it automatically, thinking it Sunny or at best Patty; Blaise never really called, just texted or showed up when it was convenient to him.

“If you want to come over for dinner, I’m already eating, so we should reschedule for tomorrow,” she said as a greeting.

There was a pause.

“I didn’t expect you to be so forward,” her mother said dryly. “Or are you still in the habit of not checking the caller ID? I told you to break out of that. It leads to a lot of confusion.”

“You’re right. If I had broken this habit like you often told me to, I would have checked the caller and not answered at all,” Mallory lied easily.

Of course she would have answered the phone. She wanted to contact them; she just hadn’t wanted to take the initiative with it. Her words obviously bothered her mother, who grew quiet, and when she spoke again, her annoyance, if not anger, was visible.

“I suppose this means you’ll hang up on me now,” she said.

“No,” Mallory said. “What did you call me for? After years of silence, I’m surprised you’ve called twice now.

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