Total pages in book: 114
Estimated words: 112736 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 564(@200wpm)___ 451(@250wpm)___ 376(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 112736 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 564(@200wpm)___ 451(@250wpm)___ 376(@300wpm)
Casually, I ask her, “Hey, when’s the last time you babysat?”
“What?” she says, confused, then she must see little Levi following in behind me.
“Coy, what the fuck did you do?” she hisses.
“That’s my kid, since you’re so interested in my life. Surely you won’t mind babysittin’ every now and then,” I say with a grin. “Come on, Levi, let me show you to your very own room.”
Voice trembling, Levi says, “I don’t want my own room. I want to be with mommy.”
“Right now your momma needs rest, and to do that she needs to have some privacy,” I say firmly to him.
“But!” he starts but I don’t stop walking.
“You can see her all you want, but you will have your own room.”
“O… okay,” he says to my back as I walk us through the house with Allie in my arms.
Fuck, I never thought I’d be carrying her through my house in the marriage kind of way. I thought she was dead and gone. I got her back… but she sure as fuck doesn’t seem too alive right now. I swear this better not be some kind of fucking drug thing. I’ll fucking skin her alive if she’s doin’ drugs around my boy.
Nodding my head to the room directly across from my own, I say, “That one’s yours, right across from my own.”
Kicking my door open, I head directly to the bed. To be honest, I don’t think it’s a drug thing, unless she’s shootin’ up between her toes or doing pills. She doesn’t have the meth scratches all over her or any of those other telltale signs.
Setting her sweaty body down on my bed, I wanna slam my fist against the wall. How the fuck is it the first time I get her in this bed, she’s passed the fuck out?
Levi comes up to the side of the bed and frowns at me. “When she going to wake up?”
“Soon,” I say to him and then gently grab him by the hand.
Fuck, his hand is so damn small compared to mine, it’s like a little doll or somethin’. Pulling him as gently as I can from the room, I tug him to the living room where the thermostat is for the house.
Dropping the dial down to low as shit, I breathe out a heavy sigh.
“Fuck, it’s hot as hell,” I say.
“Mommy says you shouldn’t say those words,” Levi says.
“Yeah, probably not,” I laugh and then all but drag him to the couch.
“What are we doing?” he asks as I hand him the cable remote.
“You’re gonna take charge of the remote control. I’m gonna order some Hometown Pizza and check on your momma.”
Levi frowns. “I’m not allowed to have pizza.”
“Why the hell not? You allergic or somethin’?” I ask him, and fuck, I don’t know anything about kids and shit.
“No, Mikhail says it’s for pants,” he says with a bigger frown.
“Pants?” I ask, confused.
He struggles with the word. “No, pa… sants.”
“You mean peasants?” I ask.
“That’s it! Peasants!” he says now that he’s heard the word right.
“Well, fuck Mikhail, he’s a moron. We eat pizza in this family.” I shake my head as I head into the kitchen.
“Peasants?” Darlene asks me as I walk over to the fridge to grab a cold beer.
“Fucking must be a joke, right?” I ask her.
Looking from me to the doorway, she quietly asks, “Is he royalty or something?”
Laughing, I start to shake my head then think about it. “Well yeah, he’s a future Royal Bastard.”
Finishing off my beer, I toss the empty bottle in the trash and start to walk out of the kitchen.
I gotta keep an eye on Allie and make sure she wakes up.
Because if she doesn’t…
Shit.
Turning back around, I grab another beer out of the fridge and nearly finish it off as I carry it into the bedroom with me.
Chapter Ten
Allie
Slowly, almost gently, awareness begins to creep back in.
I realize I’m lying on something soft, something that smells clean.
I’m not too hot or too cold, and it’s tempting to fall back to sleep. To let everything go on without me.
I’m so tired.
I’ve been tired for such a long time…
I deserve a break. I need a break from my life, from everything.
I start to drift off again, strangely feeling like I’m safe. Like someone is watching over me…
Then Coy’s words suddenly replay in my head.
“He’s mine and so are you, Allie.”
I come fully awake with a gasp, my heart racing.
And the first thing I see is Coy’s dark blue eyes staring back at me.
Confused, it takes me a moment to figure out where I am, and the second I realize I’m in a strange bed, with him, true panic begins to set in.
Where am I?
How the fuck did I get here?
I start to roll over, intending to get out of the bed, but as soon as I roll onto my back Coy appears above me.