Total pages in book: 100
Estimated words: 123922 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 620(@200wpm)___ 496(@250wpm)___ 413(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 123922 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 620(@200wpm)___ 496(@250wpm)___ 413(@300wpm)
Kane sighed, “Because I’m paying half of your rent.”
Come again?
I stared at him. “Excuse me?”
“I knew you wouldn’t let me pay for it all, so I decided I would pay half.”
“You decided, huh?” I hissed. “You just decided that you would pay half me rent without even askin’ me?”
“Consider it half of my monthly child support payment, the other half will be to help you buy things the baby needs.”
I placed my fingers against my temples as a profound pounding began to pulse away.
“Come on, Aideen,” Kane sighed. “A two bedroom apartment for anything less that twenty-five hundred around our area will be shitty and we both know it. You said you wanted to be close by, and since I live in Upton, we needed to up the price.”
I knew what he was saying was true, but I was deeply bothered that he just decided something that directly involved my life without even consulting me. It wasn’t okay.
“Fine,” I muttered and looked out the window once more.
Kane’s sigh was deep, and long.
“You’re mad.”
“You’re a genius.”
Kane grunted and closed his mouth for the remaining ten-minute journey to the first apartment location. It was fifteen minutes away from Upton in a bigger estate area called Ballycash. It was a rough area and I already knew it would be a no from me when I stepped out of Kane’s Jeep.
There was a dead cat on the path across from us and it turned my stomach. I glared at Kane as he walked around the car to me. “This estate, really?”
Kane held up his hands. “With the notice I gave her, Cala said she could round up five apartments to show us. I just told her I wanted it to be close to Upton. I didn’t pick this area.”
Ballycash was the complete opposite of Upton so I didn’t doubt Kane had involvement with the location. He wouldn’t live here even if you paid him to, so no way in hell would he want his child living here.
“Who is Cala?” I asked as I kept my eyes averted from the cat.
“The realtor.”
I raised my eyebrow. “You’re on first name basis with the realtor?”
Kane shrugged. “I called her Miss Harding, but she told me to call her Cala... so I did.
“Uh huh.”
“Uh huh, what?”
“Nothin’.”
Kane stood in front of me. “Nothing is something. I don’t need the Man Bible to know that.”
I scoffed, “I’m fine.”
“No, you aren’t. Just tell me now what’s bothering you. I don’t want you giving me the silent treatment for the next ten hours.”
I rolled my eyes. “I could explain what you did wrong, but you still wouldn’t understand.”
“What is that supposed to mean?”
I was going to have to spell it out for him.
“You’re the reason there are instructions on shampoo bottles.”
“Are you insinuating I’m stupid?”
“No, I’m flat out sayin’ you’re stupid.”
“Rude!” Kane snapped. “You’re so rude!”
I couldn’t help but laugh.
“Sorry, flower.”
“Dealing with you and your stupid hormones would drive a man to drink,” Kane grumbled, not even trying to muffle his words.
I snorted. “Told you we shouldn’t have had sex. Totally your fault for kissin’ me in Darkness.”
“My fault? You’re the one who was dressed in that barely-there dress and sent me fuck-me-now glares. You wanted my cock, babydoll, you just didn’t want to accept that you wanted it.”
What he was saying was true and it infuriated me.
“Please,” I laughed, “I could’ve had me pick of men that night.”
Lie.
Kane smirked. “Then why did you come home with me?”
I opened my mouth, but quickly closed it when I couldn’t think of a snippy reply.
He laughed at me. “I’ll answer for you. It’s because you wanted me, not Skull or anyone else, just me.”
I grunted, “Yeah, well, you wanted me, too.”
“Want not wanted.”
I flushed and slapped Kane’s shoulder. “I’m not havin’ sex with you.”
“I’ll wear you down eventually, Mama.”
I growled, “I’ll bite you.”
“Please do,” Kane countered, his eyes gleaming.
I laughed and shook my head. “You never let me get the last word in.”
“Because it pisses you off,” he snickered. “It amuses me when you get all red-faced in anger with me.”
“You enjoy making me angry?”
Kane shrugged. “I just like that I have an effect on you, even if it’s just to annoy you.”
“You’re unbelievable.”
“I know.”
“Kane!” I snapped and then laughed.
He threw his arm around my shoulder, smiling as he did so. We both walked over to the entrance of the apartment building Cala told Kane to meet her at. Kane opened the door for me and gestured me into the building.
I snickered, “What a gentleman.”
I walked past Kane and yelped when he smacked my arse.
“There’s nothing gentle about me, babydoll.”
I’ll say.
I shook my head, chuckling but instantly stopped when I looked at the goddess walking towards Kane and myself with a bright, white smile. She was taller than me, but might have been the same height if she didn’t have rose red stilettos on her tanned feet.
Her attire was very business-like, but fashionable at the same time. She was wearing a well-fitted grey pencil skirt and a matching blazer. Her wine coloured hair was pulled back into a tight bun that looked like it was professionally done. There wasn’t a hair out of place on her pristine head.
It made me feel like a fat slob when I compared myself to her.
I knew I was pregnant so having a belly was nothing to compare, but everything else I had no excuse for. I was in a pair of black leggings, and an oversized white t-shirt that had ‘I believe in unicorns’ in black bold letters across the front of it. I also had a blazer on, but mine definitely wasn’t fitted. It was just a cheap blazer I picked up when I was in Penny’s a few months ago with Keela.
It was one of the only things from my old wardrobe that I could still wear because it didn’t have to be buttoned closed. I didn’t even want to look at my footwear because I knew I opted for open toe sandals and that was never a good idea unless there was sand and a big blue ocean involved.