Total pages in book: 168
Estimated words: 160782 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 804(@200wpm)___ 643(@250wpm)___ 536(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 160782 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 804(@200wpm)___ 643(@250wpm)___ 536(@300wpm)
“Do you want another cuppa, love?” Mum asks as she stands and stretches.
I nod and smile. “Yes, and then I’m off to bed.” I look at my watch. 11.25 pm, hmm.
“Are you waiting for something?” she frowns. “You keep looking at your watch.”
I roll my eyes shamefully and blow out a breath. “Hmm, yeah, Josh said he was going to call me, and he hasn’t so…I don’t know.” I shrug my shoulders. “Who knows what’s going on, Mum, it’s like frigging Dynasty around here.”
She smiles warmly. “He called me this morning.” “Huh? Who? Josh?” I frown.
She nods and looks wide eyed at me and walks into the kitchen.
“Why did he call you and not me?” I ask as I put my hands on my hips in annoyance and follow her.
“He wanted to make sure you could stay here.” She starts to make the tea and pours the water into the cups.
I screw up my face. “Oh, what next? He’s a control freak,” I snap.
“Why in the hell does he think it is ok to call my mother and ask if she can babysit me? I’m not a child?”
She takes her tea and walks back into the lounge room. I reluctantly follow her.
“What did he say anyway?” I ask as I frown. This is bullshit, mindfuck Stanton at his best.
“He told me that he has stayed at your house for the last couple of nights with you.”
My eyes widen. “He did?” I whisper.
“And he told me that he couldn’t stay with you for the next few nights because he had to work so would it be ok if you stayed with me.”
I screw up my face again. “He’s lost the plot,” I snap.
“I am safe at home. Why does he think someone is going to get me? He’s becoming paranoid,” I huff.
She smiles again. “He’s not worried about someone getting you, love. He didn’t want you home alone in case you had a nightmare. He couldn’t stand the thought of you being home alone and scared.”
My mouth drops open as I am rendered speechless. “What?” I whisper.
I bite my lip to stifle the huge grin that is threatening to split my face open. “He said that?” I ask.
She nods and sips her tea.
I put my hand up to my mouth and think. “He still loves me, he wouldn’t even think of that if he didn’t love me.”
“That’s what I was thinking, love.” She raises her eyebrows. “I didn’t know that,” I whisper through my smile.
“Why don’t you call him now? I’m sure he has just been tied up at work and time has gotten away from him. Ask him to come over when he finishes if you want.”
I smile and stand. “Thanks Mum.” I give her a kiss on the cheek. “I will.”
Joshua
I sit back in my seat, affronted, and run my pointer over my lips as I think. “No one will ever know, you say.”
She smiles and leans over me further. “It’s a crime for a man as virile as you to only satisfy one woman. Nature didn’t intend it to be that way. That is why he gave men like you a roving eye and uncontrollable lust. One woman would never be able to satisfy a man like you, Joshua, we both know that.”
I run my tongue over my top teeth. “You think I have a roving eye?” I ask.
She nods slowly as she smiles. “The way you danced with me at the wedding, the way you looked at me this morning in this dress. I can tell that you want me and my body.” She slowly runs her finger down her clavicle and over her breast.
I frown as I think. Is that how I come across, as having a roving eye?
“You’re an attractive woman, a man would have to be dead not to notice you,” I say flatly as I turn back to my computer screen.
“You normally do more than notice though, don’t you Joshua?”
I stop dead in my tracks, how does she know that? It turns my stomach to think she has only known me since I have been with Natasha and yet she has nailed me in one. Have I given Natasha a reason to be insecure? My mind flicks back to the wedding and how I handled my jealousy that night.
She leans over me and gently kisses the side of my face. “No one will know,” she whispers in my ear as she runs her hand down the side of my face.
I grab her hand midair. “I will know,” I sneer as my eyes lock on hers.
“It’s natural, Joshua, just go with it,” she purrs.
I frown at her. “I’m not the man you think I am, get out of this office or I am walking right now.”
She pulls back. “Joshua, don’t be like that. I am just being honest.”