Total pages in book: 114
Estimated words: 139789 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 699(@200wpm)___ 559(@250wpm)___ 466(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 139789 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 699(@200wpm)___ 559(@250wpm)___ 466(@300wpm)
I frowned. "I can pay for meself, mother."
"Don't argue, everything is last minute so I am covering your flights and hotel. I am your mother, it is allowed for me to give a helping hand to my only child."
I shook my head, this was the only time in my life she has thought ahead when it came to me and did something nice, but it was only because it was for Micah's wedding. There was no doubt in my mind that she wouldn't have gone out of her way to make sure I was going to this wedding if it had been someone else's.
"Okay accommodation and flights aside, what are you going to wear?"
I sighed. "I don't know, Aideen is comin' shoppin' with me and Alec to get-"
"Who is Alec?" my mother cut me off.
I looked up then and remembered where I was. I was in the middle of the Slater's kitchen and they were all staring at me whilst still being shirtless.
"Who is Alec?" I repeated and locked eyes with said male.
He grinned and me so I narrowed my eyes at him as I said to my mother, "Alec is me boyfriend, did I not mention him to you?"
My mother’s gasp was overplayed. "No! You did not mention a boyfriend!"
I slightly smiled at my mother's shock.
I shrugged even though she couldn't see me. "Sorry, it must have slipped me mind."
"How could something like that just slip your mind, Keela? How long have you been together? Is it serious? What does he look like?" My mother fired her questions at me.
"How long are we together?" I repeated out loud.
"Three months?" Alec suggested in a low voice.
I shrugged. "We're together three months."
Alec winked.
"Is it serious?" my mother asked, exasperated.
"We're pretty serious, he is actually movin' in with me today," I said then wished I hadn't as I watched all the Slater brothers grin and bump fists with Alec.
Aideen chuckled from across the table. "This is gonna be hilarious."
"What does he look like?"
What the hell did she care?
"He is very good lookin', God mother."
Alec's ego and head got bigger in that moment, I'm sure of it.
"I cannot believe you are moving in with a man who I've never even met! I am coming over soon to meet him!" my mother snapped and then hung up on me.
I pulled my phone away from my ear and looked at Alec who had his eyebrows raised. "She took the boyfriend news well?"
I shrugged. "As well as can be expected."
Aideen burst out laughing. "She wants to meet him, doesn't she?"
I nodded my head without looking away from Alec whose eyes widened a little.
I titled my head and beamed at him with an evil smile. "Tell me, Alec... are you ready to meet the Devil?"
"Women love me, Kitten. Your mother won't be any different so stop stressing."
I ignored Alec as I tucked my phone into my bag. Aideen had just messaged me that she finally got into her apartment. I dropped her off on our way back to my apartment, but there was a car fire being put out in the carpark of her apartment complex so of course she started to talk with the hot firemen. Myself and Alec didn’t stick around so I made Aideen promise to text me when she got inside her apartment, just so I knew she was okay.
I walked up the stairs of my apartment complex and even though Alec told me not to stress over him meeting my mother, I couldn’t help but stress. My mother would be coming to my apartment to meet Alec and if the entire place wasn't sparkling, I'd never hear the end of it.
I glanced over my shoulder to Alec who was walking up the stairs behind me. "Are you sure you don't want a hand with your stuff?"
Alec shook his head. "No, I'm good."
I shrugged then turned my head back around, I was a little breathless by the time we reached my floor. I opened the doorway to the hallway that lead to my apartment and gestured Alec in with his two duffle bags ahead of me.
Yes, he had two huge duffle bags, the man wasn't joking when he said he was moving in. He was moving everything he owned into my apartment.
Everything.
"What is your apartment number?" Alec asked from in front of me.
“Five-twenty,” I replied.
Alec stopped outside my door then dropped his bags to the floor and turned to me. "You have five locks on your door."
It was a statement, not a question.
I looked to my door then back to Alec and said, "They are necessary."
Alec frowned. "Why do you live here if it's not safe?"
I sighed. "Because I don't have the money to live somewhere like Upton, that's why."
I brushed by Alec and fished my keys out from the end of my bag, when I found them I pulled them out and got to work unlocking my door. I was in the middle of opening the last lock when the noise of a door opening from behind me got my attention.
"Keela?"
Bollocks.
I put a smile on my face as I turned and moved around Alec's large body.
"Hello, Mr. Doyle."
Mr. Pervert's eyes dropped to my legs for a moment before they reached my face. "Hello, sweetheart."
I shuddered in disgust then jumped when I felt a hand come around my waist, Mr. Doyle looked down to Alec's hand and his jaw set.
"Who is this?" he asked without taking his eyes off Alec's hand.
"I'm Alec Slater, Keela's boyfriend," Alec answered in a tone that was firm yet smooth.
I watched Mr. Pervert slightly narrow his eyes as he lifted them and looked over my head. "I'm Henry Doyle, Keela's neighbour."
"You mean our neighbour."
I bit down on my lip when Mr. Pervert stepped back a little, I don't know whether he was shocked or intimidated.
"You're movin' in?" Mr. Pervert asked, his voice gritty.
Alec gently pulled me backwards until my back was pressed against the front of his body. I bit the inside of my cheek when his hand slide down from my waist and rested on my lower stomach. If I had a V line, his hand would had covered one side of it, that's how low his hand was.