Jerk It by Lani Lynn Vale

Author:Lani Lynn Vale [Vale, Lani Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lani Lynn Vale
Published: 2021-06-29T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 15

Welcome to my loose interpretation of clean.

-Welcome sign hanging in Mavis’s house

MAVIS

Things went downhill fast.

Exactly like the doctor said they would.

One week he was walking around without oxygen.

The next, he had his bright green oxygen bottle trailing behind him everywhere he went.

It was now six weeks after that meeting with the doctor, and I knew one thing was for sure.

I was so in love with Alessio Murphy Romano that I couldn’t see straight.

And he was really, really pissing me off right now.

One, because he kept trying to leave my house, as well as me in general. And two, he had absolutely zero regard for his own damn life.

I was trying hard to keep him alive and as well as possible, and he was doing everything in his power to be a pain in the ass around every turn.

“You’re not going!” I yelled, throwing my hands up in defeat.

Murphy looked at me with narrowed eyes. “I want to go.”

I ground my teeth together, wishing he’d change his stinking mind, but knowing he wouldn’t.

“You’re not going to be able to hide the oxygen bottle,” I pointed out.

Something in which he’d tried and failed to do on multiple occasions now.

He continued to try to work, and he got to the point where he couldn’t interact with customers because he couldn’t go long without oxygen. Something in which he wanted his customers to not know seeing as he was a stubborn ass.

Murphy sighed. “I know.”

I tilted my head. “You’re ready for everybody to know?”

Murphy looked at his hands. The hands that were now fairly clean seeing as he was too exhausted to even work more than half a day.

Something he really wasn’t happy about.

Because he was bored.

He hated not working.

And today, I’d done what I should’ve done a week ago when he’d started going to half days at work.

I’d left Vlad with him.

Vlad who could now very much entertain himself.

Though, he absolutely adored having his best friend, Murphy, there to keep him entertained.

I would’ve thought that it would’ve upset me, seeing how in tune Murphy was with Vlad.

But it didn’t upset me.

In fact, it made me happy.

Because all any parent wanted was to see their children happy.

Though it galled to admit that I couldn’t give him that uninhibited happiness that Murphy could give him, it did make me happy to know that someone could.

“It’s time,” Murphy said softly.

I knew after the doctor’s appointment he had today that things were about to change.

Why?

Because, today, Dr. Battle had informed Murphy that he needed to start getting his affairs in order.

He’d seen the rate of decline in Murphy over the last six weeks just like I had, and things weren’t nearly as hopeful as they’d been when I’d first learned of what was going on with him.

I’d thought that we’d have time. That I could wait for the heart that I just knew would come his way one day.

Only, now I wasn’t nearly as optimistic.

I was, in fact, really, really upset.

Because I was now starting to see that I’d fallen for a man that had a death sentence hanging over his head.

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