Total pages in book: 149
Estimated words: 151384 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 757(@200wpm)___ 606(@250wpm)___ 505(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 151384 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 757(@200wpm)___ 606(@250wpm)___ 505(@300wpm)
“Immy,” Jenner said in a warning voice. “Show. Me.”
“Fine,” she grumbled, holding out her arm. It really didn’t look that bad.
But the way Jenner sucked in a breath, you would have thought she’d been beaten.
His phone started vibrating in his hand and she glanced down to see Lauren was calling.
“Lauren did this to you?” Jenner asked.
“And afterward, she wasn’t sorry,” Tobias said. “Bitch meant to hurt her.”
“Tobias!” she cried.
Tobias gave her an unrepentant look.
Jenner answered the call and brought the phone to his ear. “You touched Immy.”
She couldn’t hear what Lauren was saying, but Jenner’s face could have been carved in white marble.
“No, you listen. You’re fired. I’ll get Abe to sort whatever needs sorted with our lawyer. But I do not want to see you again or hear from you. Understand? No, I don’t care your reasons. You don’t ever hurt my family and you never, ever touch Immy.”
He ended the call.
For some stupid reason, Immy wanted to cry.
“Jenner,” she said in a hoarse voice. “You can’t fire her.”
“Of course I can. She hurt you, she’s gone. Simple as that.”
“It’s not really that simple, though—”
“It is,” he said firmly. “But I’m not happy with you, Immy.”
“Me? Why?”
“You should have told me straight away what happened.”
“You were singing,” she said lamely.
“Then as soon as I stopped singing, you should have told me. Were you planning to tell me?” Jenner asked.
“Umm.”
“She wasn’t,” Tobias said.
Immy glared at him. “You’re just a chatterbox today, aren’t you?”
Tobias shrugged his thick shoulders. “I’m supposed to be looking after you. This is me doing that.”
Cupcakes.
Jenner cupped her chin in his hand. “You come first, Immy. You always come first. Before everything.”
There was a strange look on his face. One she couldn’t decipher and she swallowed heavily.
“Understand?”
“I understand,” she said.
“Now, I understand we’re watching a movie.” He dropped his hand from her chin and she watched as he headed over to the snack pile. “Yeah, you’re not eating all of this.”
“What? Why not?” she cried as he messaged someone.
“Too much sugar. And have you been drinking water? Is that why you had a headache?” Jenner asked.
“I’ve been drinking water,” she protested as Jenner walked to the mini-fridge.
“Not much,” Tobias said.
She glared over at him. “I am going to find something to gag you with.”
Tobias just winked at her.
What the heck did that mean?
Men. They were so difficult to understand.
There was a knock on the door and Tobias let Abe and Sampson in.
“What’s this about you firing Lauren?” Abe asked as Jenner strode toward her, holding a bottle of water.
Jenner pointed at the sofa in front of the TV. “Sit. Drink this. All of it needs to be gone before you eat any snacks or drink that diet soda.”
She sat and took the water. What a party pooper. But she sipped on her water as she really needed some sugar.
“What the hell?” Abe said, his face growing stonelike after Tobias and Jenner explained everything.
Sampson stomped over to her. “Show me your arm.”
Immy sighed and held out her arm to him.
“That fucking bitch!” Sampson roared.
“See what you’ve done,” she said to Tobias.
“I’m gonna go have a chat with her.” Sampson headed to the door.
“Shit!” Abe jumped in front of him. “Wait, you can’t!”
“Why the fuck not?”
“Because we do not want her suing us. Just let me handle her, all right?” Abe said to him.
Sampson grumbled but moved away from the door. He then plonked himself down beside her on the sofa. “So? What are we watching?” He grabbed a couple of Twizzlers.
“Hey! Those are mine,” she told Sampson.
“You have about thirty of them.”
“Yeah, and they’re all mine.”
“You are not eating all of those Twizzlers,” Jenner told her, sitting on her other side. “You can have three.”
“Three? What did I do?” she cried.
“You didn’t tell me what that bitch did to you.”
She gave a disgruntled sigh as Abe and Tobias sat as well. “I don’t think I invited you all to my movie night.”
“That’s the thing, family doesn’t need an invite,” Jenner told her, wrapping an arm around her shoulders.
It was the sweetest sort of torture.
And one she never wanted to end.
34
“Where are we going?” Immy asked Tobias as he ushered her into her car.
She noticed that she was never allowed to drive anymore. If she wanted to go somewhere, she had to go with Tobias or one of the guys.
And they were all so alpha that they couldn’t stand for a woman to drive them around.
She made a scoffing noise.
Men.
“It’s a surprise,” he told her.
“I don’t like surprises,” she countered with a frown.
“Don’t you?” Tobias glanced over at her and she noticed that she was shifting around on the seat.
Drat!
“Fine. I like surprises. Normally. But not at the moment.” She glanced down at her body, but it didn’t move and she gave a nod of satisfaction.
Good.
“You’ll like this one,” he told her.