Page 24 of Jealous Alpha
I answered her questions while keeping my eye on her mother who refused to look at me. “I might be a minute.” I warned Stanley after lifting the baby in my arms while her mom grabbed her bag.
She looked like she wanted to say something after she unlocked the outer door but I just raised my brow at her before looking at Amber in a silent warning for her to behave.
We walked up three flights of stairs and I wondered how she was going to deal with this shit and for how long.
“How long has the elevator been out?”
“A couple of weeks I guess.”
“What about the landlord, has anyone contacted him about fixing it?”
“Of course we did and he keeps telling us the same thing, soon.” She opened the door to the apartment and let us in, barely keeping herself from slamming it shut.
She was doing a good job of hiding her anger from her daughter but she wasn’t fooling me one bit. I saw those damn pictures again and my hackles rose.
“Which room is hers?” I followed her down the hallway to the room she’d gone into earlier. It was like stepping into another world.
No one could doubt her love and devotion to her child after seeing this. It was like every little girl’s fantasy. A fairy wonderland.
The rest of the apartment though neat was nowhere near as put together as this room. I put Amber down on the bed and took her shoes off.
“You sleepy baby?”
“Read me a story uncle Evan.” She pointed to a line of books on a shelf on the wall.
“Which one sweetheart?” Gia was pissed and she spat fire at me with her eyes as I moved to get the book that had been chosen.
I sat on the bed with Amber’s little head on my leg and read to her until her little chest rose and fell with the easy breathing of sleep.
I put her head on her pillow and pulled the covers up over her before going to find her mother who’d disappeared.
She was in the kitchen at the stove. I leaned against the doorjamb and watched her. “I know you know I’m here. Amber’s asleep you can let me have it now.”
“Let you have what? I have nothing more to say on the subject.”
“That’s not gonna work. What have you told Amber about him?”
“Seriously, what is it with you? You act like my marriage was an affront to you or something. Every time you talk about him there’s this underlying thing in your voice that I just don’t get.”
I knew she was right, but how could I explain it to her when I didn’t understand it myself? I just knew that the thought of her with someone else made me feel cheated.
“How about we start over? I’ll try to rephrase my question and you’ll give me an honest answer and we’ll go from there.”
“Why do I need to answer anything? This is making me very uncomfortable. I appreciate what you did for my daughter, but I don’t think it gives you the right to pry into my life.”
“I told you not to do that, leave that shit out of it. What you’re implying is sick. Try putting yourself in my position. Wouldn’t you want to know?”
“First, there’s no reason for you to know, it’s not like we’re in a relationship or anything like that. And second, I’m sure you’ve had relationships before, do you tell each new person everything about the last one?”
“That’s different, I never loved any of them enough to marry them and I never trusted anyone enough to have them bear my child.”
“Look, I’m not comfortable talking to you about this.” She tried leaving the room and I blocked her with a hand across the door.
“Do you ever talk about it, or do you prefer to hold onto the memories and live inside your head? Because I gotta tell you, that’s not gonna work for me.”
“I’m still not sure why you think I should care…” I pulled her into my chest and kissed her, this time I held her jaw. “If you bite me I’ll bite you back this time.”
I held her hands together behind her back, pressing her tits into my chest as I ravished her mouth.
