Wanted: A Bad Boy Romance by Hawk Maya

Author:Hawk, Maya [Hawk, Maya]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-11-30T08:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE – JORDANA

My mother calls me the next morning.

I’m sure she’s worried sick.

I didn’t come home last night. Instead, I stayed with Titan, not wanting to leave his side in case he got swept up in something again. Someone framed him, and my main priority right now is finding out who would’ve done it.

“Hello?” I answer Mama’s call on the third ring.

“Jordana, where on God’s green earth are you?!”

“I’m fine, Mama. I stayed with a friend last night. I should’ve called you. I’m so sorry.”

“You better be sorry, girl.” I hear the anger in her voice. Sober anger sounds much different than drunken anger. There’s less sadness in it. More rage. “I was worried sick! How do you think I felt when I woke up this morning and your car was gone?”

Probably the same way she felt that morning Jerome didn’t come home.

“I’m sorry.” I offer another apology, as if it could possibly calm her down.

“Where are you? Who are you with?” she asks. “And I drove by your intern site this morning. Your car wasn’t there. I know you’re not at work, Jordana, so don’t even try to lie.”

I’m perched on the edge of Titan’s bed, the door to his bathroom ajar as thick billows of steam escape. He’s showering. We hadn’t talked about telling our parents, but I’m not sure I have a choice now.

“I stayed with Titan,” I blurt. My face winces, my eyes jamming tight.

I’m met with silence on the other end.

At least, for a minute or two.

“Uh, what did you say?” she asks. “I don’t think I heard you clearly. Did you just say you stayed the night with Titan? As in Lewis’ son?”

“Yes, Mama.”

She laughs. She thinks it’s funny. I hope that’s a good thing.

“Oh, no,” she says. “Naw. Naw. Naw.”

“We’re close friends, Mama,” I say. “That’s all you need to know.”

“Have you been screwing him?” she asks.

My cheeks burn. Never in a million years did I ever plan to discuss my sexual life with my mother.

“I said we’re good friends,” I repeat.

“You must think I was born yesterday. You must think you’re so damn clever, sneaking around at night, running over to his apartment like you’re smarter than everyone.” She huffs, and I can just picture her with a hand on her curved hip and a jaw hanging to the floor. “You lost your damn internship, didn’t you, Jordana?”

“I’m going to, yes,” I say. “I’m turning in my ID and resignation today.”

“There goes your whole damn future. There goes four years of college tuition. Right down the drain. You’re paying me back every last red cent, you understand me?”

“Yes, Mama.”

In my defense, she’s being entirely too dramatic, but I’m not about to tell her that.

“You need to get your things and go,” she says. “Come by and pick everything up. You’re not staying here anymore. You’ve lost your damn mind, Jordana. Who do you think you are? Hooking up with your future stepbrother and throwing away your good reputation and your education like that?”

She rambles on, but I tune her out.

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