Irresistible (Neighbor from Hell #11) - R.L. Mathewson Page 0,36
most important thing is to get you off bed rest and get you moving again. I’d like to see you weekly at this point to keep an eye on your labs and to make sure that everything is progressing correctly,” Roger explained as he handed the iPad back to Aidan.
“O-okay,” Melanie mumbled weakly and just like that, Aidan knew that any progress that he’d made with her was gone.
Chapter 18
Maybe it was infected? Kenzie wondered as she stared down at the fresh bandage that she wrapped her arm in this morning. When it continued to itch, she decided that she should definitely run before Aidan could stick her with another needle. Decision made, she moved to get to her feet only to find herself gently pushed back down on the couch and the man that she couldn’t seem to get away from sitting down on the coffee table in front of her as he carefully began removing her bandage.
“What did you do this time?” Roger asked as she sat there, forcing herself not to think of all those things that she’d told herself to forget.
“Fell through a crawlspace,” Kenzie said, wondering how it was possible to hate someone this much.
Absently nodding, Roger removed the gauze pad and winced in sympathy when he saw the gash on her arm. “You’ve got to be more careful, Kenzie,” he murmured, gently turning her arm over so that he could get a better look.
“I’m fine,” she said, moving to pull her arm away only to have him tighten his hold around her arm and-
“Are you ever going to forgive me?” Roger asked as she found herself looking into the dark blue eyes that were going to haunt her for the rest of her life.
She opened her mouth to answer him only to find herself frowning when Rebecca answered for her. “Probably not,” her sister-in-law that really seemed to enjoy screwing with people’s heads said with a sad shake of her head.
“Then again,” Rebecca continued as she headed for the front door, “she doesn’t know that Missy lied in that letter and that you never touched her. Then there’s the fact that you only did what you did to save Reese from making the biggest mistake of his life because you felt guilty about that secret that we’re not supposed to be talking about.”
When Roger narrowed his eyes on her, Rebecca added, “Melanie doesn’t gossip. I was there, which is why I think you’re an idiot,” with a shrug as she walked out the door, making the decision that Kenzie had been struggling with for the past year easier.
It was time for her to leave and this time, she wasn’t coming back.
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“I shaved my legs,” the man that she’d been trying to figure out how to explain, as politely as humanly possible of course, that she didn’t want to have sex with him, said.
“I’m sorry, what’s this now?” Melanie found herself asking, still not quite able to look at him at the moment because she actually did want to have sex.
Just not with him.
Okay, so that wasn’t entirely true, Melanie admitted to herself. It was just that she was fat, bloated, and…
She just…
She just couldn’t do it.
She couldn’t sleep with a man that she barely knew.
Okay, so clearly she could, Melanie thought, biting back a wince as she glanced down at her large belly, but that had been with the help of a lot of unidentifiable alcohol and a knee jerk reaction to finding out something that she really should have seen coming. Caitlyn wasn’t happy unless she got what she wanted. She’d been that way since they were kids.
If she saw something that she wanted, she’d do whatever it took to get it and unfortunately for everyone around her, Caitlyn usually wanted what someone else had. When they were little, that meant having to deal with tantrums, shouting, crying, and waiting until Caitlyn finally passed out when she held her breath until she got what she wanted. As she got older, she’d figured out how to get what she wanted without having to resort to tantrums. She’d learned how to get what she wanted with coy smiles, false flattery, and-
Melanie never thought that Caitlyn would do something like this to her. She should have known better, she thought with a sigh only to frown when she suddenly found herself looking down at the man helping her with her shoes.
“Umm, what are you doing?” Melanie couldn’t help but wonder.