The Soccer Mom's Bad Boy by Jordan Silver Read Free Book Online Page B

unconventional.” My mouth was saying one thing but my heart was wishing for another. It would be phenomenal to be loved by someone like him.
    “You’ve said that before remember, and I think I told you, I don’t follow convention. I saw you, I wanted you and now I have you. Last night was just the beginning of something beautiful. It’s as new to me as it is to you.”
    “What does that mean?” I held my breath as my pulse raced at his words that were so forcefully spoken.
    “It means I’ve never wanted to have with anyone else what I’m going to have with you. It means that although I understand your hesitance, there’s no way I’m going to let you fuck this up for both of us. Like I said, it’s out of your hands.”
    “And what if I’m not okay with that?”
    “I’m sorry but that’s just the way it is babe. Where’s the kid?”
    “She’s in her room watching TV.”
    “Is she scared?”
    “No I don’t think so, but, I’m the adult, I’m supposed to…”
    “Not going there babe, I’ll see you later tonight, is Alana going to be out again?”
    “No she’ll be home.”
    “What time does she go to bed?”
    “About nine.”
    “Sweet, feel free to go to sleep if you get tired I know you didn’t have enough rest last night. Not to worry, I’ll let myself in.”
    I looked down at the phone that was now giving me a busy signal. “Was that him?” My daughter came and stood in the doorway. I nodded my head and patted the mattress beside me.
    It’s sad but she has become my only constant in the last year or so. And though I try not to burden my child with my worries and fears, after all she’s just a baby; she’s so understanding and supportive of me that sometimes it’s easy to slip into that role of the needy mom.
    We talked for a while, both of us skirting around the issue, but I felt better for it afterwards. With what amounted to my daughter’s blessing, I felt better about the fact that I really wanted to go for it. When else was I going to find myself in this position?
    As to the talk about happily ever after, I wasn’t going to trust my heart to anything. I’ll just enjoy some more of what I’d got a taste of the night before thank you very much, and leave the pipe dreams to someone else who didn’t already know the score.

Chapter 10
     
    DANE
     
    I made myself busy so as not to go get her. I had some work I could go over to keep me occupied for a couple hours at least, and some phone calls that I’d been putting off while I was focused on her.
    I pulled up the sheet I had on her ex in the middle of the day and went over it again. I wasn’t expecting any problems from that corner, they were divorced already after all, but you never know.
    On paper he came across as a selfish egotistical prick, and experience has taught me that that type can be unpredictable. Things were about to move real fast between me and his ex family, and I needed to have all my ducks in a row.
    As far as I can tell, he didn’t show much interest in his kid either, and I was more than ready and willing to step into his spot. I was going to regardless, but there is always more than one way to skin a cat.
    Since the kid is his and he has rights, that meant I was going to have to live with him being a part of my woman’s life, the thing to do now was figure out how much.
    From the report alone I knew that so far he hadn’t been doing right by them, but I’d only been on the scene one night and day. For them it might be too soon for me to move in and take shit over, so I had to decide how much time I was willing to give her to get used to my way of doing things.
    I noticed that he made good money, had come from money, but his child was living in what amounted to a cottage, while he lived in the mansion she’d once called home with his new piece.
    I wasn’t worried about what that was doing to my woman, I could give her that ten times over and not break a sweat, but it must be hard as fuck on his kid;