Total pages in book: 65
Estimated words: 62015 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 310(@200wpm)___ 248(@250wpm)___ 207(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 62015 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 310(@200wpm)___ 248(@250wpm)___ 207(@300wpm)
“I don’t know, it’s like I said she made it up......”
I was in front of her before she could get the next word out.
“Joshua let her go......”
“Don’t lie about her again, you fucking beat her, starved her and neglected her, that was bad enough but then you left her at the mercy of known drug addicts in your home when she was fucking thirteen years old, one of the reasons I was so pissed off at her was because she would prefer to return to that than spend the holiday with me, at least that’s what I thought at the time, but it had nothing to do with that, she wouldn’t have gone anywhere near you if I hadn’t fucked up, that’s on me, but if you stand here and lie about her again.....I’ll throw your ass in a ditch.”
“Alright son calm down...Paula what did you do to my daughter?”
She started backing up; I guess the look in the Captain’s eye was nothing to sneeze at.
“It wasn’t my fault okay; she was supposed to stay in her room, if she’d only stayed....”
If she thought for one second I was going to save her ass from him she was mistaken, I just stood back as the Captain slapped her across her face as hard as fuck, blood flew from her nose as she screamed bloody murder.
Dad and Matt came running and got him off of her as I stood back thinking, one bitch down, two more to go.
This cleaning house shit was going to be a fucking breeze, too bad I had to deal with the shit when I should be concentrating all my energy on getting my lamb better, I guess it’s two birds with one stone. After this I’m sure there’s no way in hell the Captain would ever let Carrie anywhere near Paula again. My little mercenary will just have to find another way to pad her account in the future.
I left them downstairs to deal with their mess and headed back to my girl, I had a lot of shit to do in the next few days, Xmas was in a couple weeks, I wanted this shit over and done by then. She was still asleep when I crawled back into her narrow twin sized bed with her. Sighing softly, she curled into my side as I held her.
Chapter 30
Josh
She’s been home for a day and a half already and I’m having withdrawal issues, last night I barely spent half an hour in my bed before I was back here, couldn’t sleep.
I think I’m going to have another talk with Captain, we’d had one after Paula was shown the door, but that was a more heavy subject about our future, Carrie’s and mine, I think I need to let him know we can’t be apart, how he’ll take it, I have no idea but I know she can’t be without me either because when I came through her window last night she’d been tossing and turning and whispering my name in her sleep.
I’ve been a very busy boy, after all, the shit I have to do in the upcoming days will affect a lot of people, I only cared about her.
It’s almost like my whole focus had shifted, it was no longer just about me, or even us, it was all about her.
I’m beginning to see her in a new light, I’ve always known she was broken, I just didn’t realize how badly, until this.
I’m not a little boy, never have been, I see things in a way most don’t and never will, I don’t look at life through rose tinted glasses, fuck that shit, I’ve noticed in my observation of people, that they hardly ever do what they say, or what they want to, everyone’s too busy trying to fit into a pigeon hole that society has set for them.
That’s not me, I’ll be true to myself and live my life the way I want to and fuck what others think. Now I’m taking her on board with me.
Where I go, she goes.
I looked over at her as we lay on her bed doing homework, I’d already fixed my classes for the next term after the holidays, Stevenson at the school office must think I’m nuts the way I’ve been back and forth with this shit, I didn’t care about that shit either.
She’s biting that lip of hers again and I realized I hadn’t kissed her, really kissed her in weeks.
Pulling her lip away from her teeth with my thumb, I brought her face down to mine so I could taste her lips.
Soft and sweet, just the way I remembered.
Books were crushed, papers crinkled as we devoured each other, arms locked tightly around one another.
I eased back when things started getting heated, now was not the time, I needed her whole, needed us whole, and complete.