Total pages in book: 115
Estimated words: 109783 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 549(@200wpm)___ 439(@250wpm)___ 366(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 109783 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 549(@200wpm)___ 439(@250wpm)___ 366(@300wpm)
“I have a couple of meetings I can’t miss.”
“Okay.” My voice sounded small even to my ears. I was so confused.
Fyfe seemed to sense it. His smile didn’t quite reach his eyes, but I knew it was meant to reassure me. “Can you watch her while I get ready?”
“That’s … that’s why I’m here.” Thoughts of yesterday flitted back. I hadn’t mentioned it to Fyfe last night because I didn’t want to add to his stress, but I’d realized afterward that he deserved to know. Cameron threatened his relationship with Millie, after all. “Something happened yesterday that we need to discuss. We’ll talk after you get dressed.”
“Let’s talk now.”
“I, uh, kind of need you to not be half-naked anymore.”
There was that smug smirk again. Fyfe nodded, crossing the room toward the stairwell, which meant passing me. “Your obsession with my body bodes well for me.”
“Fuck you,” I replied without heat.
“No.” He stopped to bend his lips to my ear. “Fuck you, baby. When you agree to be mine, I’m going to fuck you so hard, you’ll see heaven.”
It took everything within me not to climb him like a goddamn tree.
Fyfe abruptly drew away, walking toward the stairs.
I turned on him. “Well, I’m … that’s …”
He grinned over his shoulder at me as he climbed. “That’s …?”
“Just you wait.” I shook a finger at him. “When you get back down here, I will have a comeback ready and I will skewer you with my wit.”
“I’d rather I skewered you with my cock, but okay.”
“Uh! That’s sounds painful, not sexy.” And yet my body thought it sounded hot.
“Oh, it’d be sexy,” he called, even as he disappeared out of sight. “Everything I do to you will be sexy, baby, I assure you.”
“Stop calling me baby!”
Millie broke into cries.
“Thanks for waking mine!” he yelled back down.
“You started it,” I bit out between clenched teeth, hurrying over to the cot. “With your filthy innuendo and dirty talk.” Reaching down, I picked Millie up and smelled the poop. “Aw, Millie, it’s okay. Auntie Eilidh’s here. Let’s get your nappy changed. I hope you didn’t hear any of that naughty stuff your daddy said or I will skewer him with more than my wit.”
Twenty-Nine
FYFE
“I’m going to kill him.” I strode toward my car keys, entire body bristling with unspent fury.
Eilidh had informed me about her altercations with Cameron Phillips.
And now he was a dead man.
“No.” Eilidh dove in front of me, arms and legs comically splayed like she was trying to stop a ball from going into a goal.
Millie giggled from her playpen, like she thought we were playing.
First, I’d awoken to find the woman of my dreams standing over me and Millie, only for her to announce she wanted casual sex. Even though I understood she was protecting herself and that I deserved it, the more I thought about it, the angrier I got.
Because that’s all sex had ever been to Eilidh as far as I could tell. It’s all it had ever been to me.
But buried in my deepest fantasies, I knew one of the reasons I’d vowed not to give into my attraction to Eilidh was because I knew it could never be casual between us. It would always mean more.
It pissed me off she ever thought it could be that unremarkable between us.
And now this.
That prick of a doctor using my relationship with my child to blackmail Eilidh into dating him?
Aye, he was so fucking dead, he was a ghost already and didn’t know it.
“Out of my way.”
“No.” Eilidh straightened, a mulish look on her gorgeous face. “I put Cameron in his place. Walker was there, and he rallied my dad and uncles last night, and they all paid the good doctor a visit that almost got them arrested.”
“How so?” A flash of spiteful pleasure rushed through me at the thought of the Adair men putting the fear of death in Dr. Dick.
“Cameron made a complaint with the police.”
“Fuck.”
“It’s fine.” She waved a hand. “Uncle Lachlan took care of it. Anyway, Uncle Lachlan also informed Dr. Mulligan that the new doctor in his practice is harassing and threatening me, and considering Cameron’s contract is for a trial period only, he’s fired, and it’s all legal. Dr. Mulligan just told him this morning that he wasn’t the right fit and they no longer required him. There’s nothing Cameron can do about it. Uncle Lachlan texted me while you were in the shower to let me know. Cameron’s pretty much dealt with.”
Although I was relieved he’d lost his job, I wasn’t entirely convinced. “You got him fired and you think he’s not going to be pissed off about that?”
“Until he’s moved out of the village, I promised my dad and Walker that I wouldn’t go anywhere alone.”
Annoyance flushed through me. “You came here alone.”
“I left the safety of my parents’ house and drove to the safety of your house.” She shook her head. “I think they just mean while I’m out and about.”