Total pages in book: 75
Estimated words: 75240 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 376(@200wpm)___ 301(@250wpm)___ 251(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 75240 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 376(@200wpm)___ 301(@250wpm)___ 251(@300wpm)
Now, six hours of hard labor later, I was still pissed.
In fact, after hearing all that Jade had to say, I was a little bit past pissed and leaning more towards irate.
I hadn’t fucking meant to!
Any harm that had come to Elise wasn’t ever my intention and that should fucking count for something!
And it would, if I had anything to say about it.
Putting my truck into reverse, I backed out of the parking spot without another word to Jade.
I didn’t make it without Troy seeing me, though.
The moment he saw me, his gaze went back to where his wife was sitting, and a scowl overtook his face. Red started to creep up the sides of his neck, and by the time I was out of the parking lot and heading toward Angie’s school, I was fairly sure he’d let me know next time I saw him just how much he despised me, too.
The drive to the college was short. Either the traffic had cooperated well with me, or I’d been driving like an asshole.
Either way, I got there just in time to see her walking to her car, her arms laden down with books.
She was laughing with the stupid man that she’d been talking to when I left, and I had to grit my teeth to keep from throwing out a vicious curse.
Not caring if her new friend could hear what I had to say or not, I pulled right up to the back of her car and blocked her in, making it to where she couldn’t leave without doing serious damage to my truck.
Once in place, I hopped out and crossed my arms over my chest, letting her know in no uncertain terms that I wasn’t letting her walk away this time.
No, this time I was going to talk it out with her whether she wanted to or not.
Something in which she saw for what it was, taking in my relaxed stance against the truck, as well as the determined look on my face.
“Al, I’ll have to catch you later,” she smiled. “I think Mr. Tannenbaum has something he’d like to discuss with me.”
Damn right I had something to discuss with her, and it wasn’t going to be a pretty discussion, either.
If everyone wasn’t already aware of mine and Angie’s relationship, they would be soon.
Very fucking soon if they walked out the doors in the next five minutes.
“We have some things to discuss,” I said once Al said his goodbyes.
Not that he wanted to.
It was more than obvious he wanted Angie.
Hell, the woman was fucking beautiful. But she was mine, not anybody else’s.
“I can’t have this discussion that you’re hinting at,” she shook her head, and then opened her passenger side door, dumping all of her books. “I have somewhere to be.”
“Where?” I asked. “I’ll follow you and we can have this discussion there.”
“You can’t.” She shut the car door and looked at me.
Her face was blank. Her eyes, however, were not.
They clearly said how much she liked seeing me. How much she longed to throw herself into my arms.
“That’s right.” She nodded. “I have a date.”
“You have a date,” I deadpanned.
She nodded her head firmly, her mouth thinning into a pissed off line.
“Yeah,” she confirmed. “And I’m pretty sure we’re going to sleep together.”
With that she flounced off, her perfect ass teasing me as she left.
My hands fisted and I couldn’t help the anger that was even now making me want to strangle some sense into her.
“You can’t fucking date!” I yelled at her back.
She turned just her head, and then lifted one single finger before continuing her flounce all the way around her car.
The moment she dropped inside, I stomped to the door of my truck, threw myself into the cab, then sped off, uncaring about the amount of people from inside the school that’d just witnessed that debacle.
***
I stewed for hours, and the longer I sat in my parents’ pool house, the angrier I became.
I’d pulled up my computer, and a moment of weakness had me turning on my Skype to see if I had any missed messages or calls in the last two months.
Low and behold, I’d had multiple from Sierra.
Once she realized I was online, she’d immediately tried to call.
And like the low life I was, I answered it.
Sierra looked good, I’d give her that.
She wasn’t Angie, though.
So without even waiting for her to speak a full sentence, I closed out of the chat, turned my computer back off, and fell back into my bed.
I had to work tomorrow.
Early. I’d told Able that I’d go in early for him since he had to take his daughter to a doctor’s appointment three hours away.
Since it was nearly nine now, I really should be going to bed.
However, I couldn’t get past the fact that she’d said she had a fucking date.