Sleeping with Her Dad's Best Friend by Alyse Zaftig

Author:Alyse Zaftig
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Zaftig Publishing

Charlie came back to the hospital room. Somebody had come in with food for my father and me. Since I’d only had a banana for breakfast, I had been grateful for the Ecuadorian food that she had given us. It was just chicken breast and beans, but it filled me up.

“Have you eaten?” I asked.

“Yes,” he told me. “Seb made sure of it. He managed to find a few more men involved in David’s kidnapping, but they’re not going to turn on Ximena. There’s no proof whatsoever to implicate her, and we’re about to cause an international incident. The embassy wants us to get out of the country as soon as David is stable enough to move.”

“I’ll be able to heal better when I get some sleep.”

There was some unspoken communication between my dad and Charlie. I felt like an outsider. I trailed behind Charlie, who brought me into a car that he was driving. He didn’t speak to me for the entire trip. When we got to the hotel, I saw that it was the original one we had been in. We weren’t sticking close to the hospital where Dad was staying. We’d have a large suite with separate bedrooms.

“Do you need dinner?” Charlie asked me.

“No,” I told him.

“Great. I’ll see you tomorrow morning to take you back to David.”

He was acting like my dad had to babysit me. I could feel tears of hurt starting to well in my eyes, so I went into my room and closed the door. I was crying quietly. Charlie had made it very clear we weren’t having a repeat of last night.

Once we went back to the United States, I would go back to barely seeing Charlie, the way it had always been. I had fallen for a man who didn’t have room in his heart to love me back. I felt like I had been struck by Cupid’s arrow in one of the bad Greco-Roman myths. If I stayed lovelorn like this, I’d ruin my chances of finding a husband in college. I was willing to change my plans for him, but he didn’t have any interest in me at all.

There was no way that I could pursue him all over the world. Dad and I had discussed me working in the company, but somewhat anonymously. Charlie wouldn’t want me trailing along behind him. He had made some comments about a businessman he knew, Lincoln, who had gotten married to Camilla, who got pregnant very easily. I knew that it could look bad for Charlie if he had a wife who was only nineteen.

I swallowed my pride and wiped my tears. If I only got one night with Charlie, that was that.

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