Stacked Up: Worth the Fight Series by Sidney Halston

Author:Sidney Halston [Halston, Sidney]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2016-05-30T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Travis left for the Academy early the next morning. Normally he tried to get in some weight training and cardio before Slade or Tony came in. The cameras were set up that day, and there were a few fans—all women—outside looking in through the windows. It would be so easy to leave with one of them. All they wanted was five minutes of fame, money, and sex, which at one point was all he’d wanted too. But something had changed, and the women with the tight tops and short skirts didn’t look so appealing anymore.

Complicated seemed like the wrong path to take, but he knew he’d been wandering near that line, and every time he mustered up the courage to tell Penny he wanted more, he’d look at her daughter’s big doe eyes, eyes that were too trusting, too helpless, and too vulnerable, and he took a step back. No matter how much he wanted Penny, he couldn’t risk hurting Belle.

He had built up a good sweat by the time Cain walked in.

“Yo,” said the notoriously quiet and stoic Cain.

“Hey, man. You’re early.”

“Penny’s your girl, right?”

Travis put down the weight he’d been holding, sending a loud clang reverberating throughout the gym. “It’s complicated. Why’re you asking?”

“Saw her walking. Pulled over and asked her if she wanted a lift. Said no. It looks like it’s going to rain and she has a kid.”

“What?” he burst out, taking off his gloves. He pulled the hem of his shirt up and wiped his brow. “She’s staying with me. Maybe she’s going to the supermarket or something. I better go find her.”

“She was crying. I don’t do well with crying women.”

“Crying? What the hell?” Travis ran his fingers through his hair. “Where’d you say you saw her?”

“Bruggs Street and First Avenue.”

Travis ran to the back, grabbed his keys and wallet, and took off.

—

Fifty thousand dollars.

She had been hurt when she’d been abandoned by Lawrence. She’d been hurt when Kip had steamrolled her decisions and basically abandoned her at Fresh Start. But Travis accepting money from Kip somehow felt like the ultimate betrayal. He could have just said he didn’t want anything to do with her. She hadn’t even asked for help; he’d insisted. Then he’d accepted Kip’s money…for what? Why hadn’t he just kicked her out last night? Was he holding her there for Kip to get to her?

What had she done to deserve all the things that kept being thrown her way? She tried to be the best person she could be at all times. She considered herself to be kind, forgiving, and trustworthy. She never intentionally hurt anyone. But the number of things that had been thrown at her during the last year and a half were beginning to feel like too much, physically weighing her down and making her feel hopeless.

Maybe it would be easier to just go back home, she thought. Her daughter would have a privileged life because there was no way that Kip could now do anything but assume responsibility for his bastard stepgranddaughter.

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