Perfect Neighbor (The Next Door Daddies Series Book 4) by Lauren Wood

Author:Lauren Wood [Wood, Lauren]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2020-01-24T16:00:00+00:00

I had just dropped the kids off at my parents and I was on my way to the hospital when I got a call from Doug. We hadn't talked since I dropped them off on Friday, and considering the fact that Steven had gone to go pick up the kids, I figured that's what it was about. But of course, at the moment I wasn't really too worried about any of that. The last thing I wanted to do was argue with Doug about it. Not when Steven was laying up in the hospital hurt.

“What's up, Doug? I'm kind of busy, so you're going to have to speak fast.”

“Something happened with the kids?”

“No, it's nothing like that. If something like that happened, I would have called you right away, Doug.”

“Then what's going on?”

I certainly wasn't going to tell him what was going on because I didn't want him to know that I was even dating anybody else. I wanted him to think that Steven was just a friend, and I certainly couldn't do that if I was sitting here worried sick about him. He would see right through me.

“I just had some stuff come up. There was an attack in the neighborhood.”

“Is everybody okay?”

“Yeah, everybody is fine. I'm just going to make sure that the neighbors are too. I couldn’t get much information from the police, and they’re up at the hospital.”

“Is it someone that you know?”

“Just an old friend.”

He was silent for a moment and I wondered what he was thinking about. Douglas was never silent and if he was, it wasn't for long. It also meant that he was thinking of a plan of attack. That's just how his mind worked.

“I thought you said that Ridgewood was going to be safer for the boys? Wasn’t that the whole reason you were taking them out of the big, bad city?”

“It has a lot lower violent rate of crime in the city. It isn't even comparable. It was just some fluke thing that happened, and I’m sure that it won’t happen again.”

“I hope so, Bonnie. I can't even think about the idea of them being unsafe. I wouldn’t be able to let that stand.”

“You know that I won't let anything happen to Jake or Phillip. You don’t have to do anything. I have a handle on this.”

Another moment of quiet before he told me that nothing better happen. I don't know if I was just being sensitive because of what was going on, but I took that a little threatening and it irked me more than anything.

How did he even have a right to say anything to me? We were divorced and that meant that Doug did not have a say in my life anymore. I didn’t want to hear his opinions on anything that wasn’t his concern, and my personal life and my friends weren’t. He was just using that as an excuse.

“Anyways Doug, I am pretty busy here. Was there a reason for you calling or what?”

I was

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