Irresistible (Neighbor from Hell #11) - R.L. Mathewson Page 0,41

comfortable only to give up, struggle to get back to her feet and waddled towards her bedroom.

Thirty minutes later, she was curled up on her side where she decided that she would wait until Aidan came home so that he could-

“You’re clearly carrying a Bradford,” Arik said with a thoughtful expression on his face as he walked into the room with two plates overflowing with food and sat down on the bed next to her.

“Who are you?” he asked as he placed one of the plates down on the bed next to her.

“Melanie,” she said, picking up her fork and took a bite of fettuccini before adding, “Rebecca’s bitch,” making his lips twitch.

“And Aidan’s the father,” Arik guessed correctly as he reached over and helped himself to one of the bottles of water that Aidan left on the nightstand for her.

“Yes,” Melanie said, shifting her attention to one of the biscuits he’d buttered for her.

“Does my mother know?”

“Yes,” Melanie said only to wince when the baby kicked her, forcing her to try to sit up.

Without a word, Arik placed their plates on the nightstand and when she kept struggling to get comfortable, he grabbed the pillows from the other side of the bed and stuffed them behind her.

“And my mom’s pissed,” he correctly guessed while Melanie was forced to shift, wiggle, and groan as she tried to get comfortable.

“You could say that,” Melanie said, once again forced to give up trying to get comfortable and settled for lying there, sighing unhappily until another kick to her ribs had her once again moving, shifting, sighing, and shifting again.

“Are you comfortable?” Arik asked, sounding amused.

Now that he mentioned it…

Chapter 21

Are you going to tell me what you’re doing here?” Aidan asked when another minute went by and his eleven o’clock appointment continued to sit there, glaring at him.

“I don’t want to talk about it,” Jason, his asshole cousin and the reason that he felt a migraine coming on, said in a harsh whisper.

“Look, Jason, I-”

“I can’t keep living like this,” Jason said with a sniffle.

“Like what?” Aidan asked, sighing heavily as he pinched the bridge of his nose even as he had to hand it to his father because the man definitely knew how to make his life a living hell.

While Aidan had been trying to make sure that Melanie had everything that she was going to need today, his father had been busy making sure that Aidan knew just how pissed he was. He’d switched out Aidan’s caseload and hand-selected every patient that Aidan had to see today, making sure to keep his schedule open later this afternoon to cover sick visits, lice, and walk-in emergencies that could be handled with an ice pack and a few Advil.

“I just need a moment,” the asshole that he got stuck with thanks to his father, said with a shuddering sigh as he wrapped his arms around himself.

“Please don’t make me kill you,” Aidan said, hoping that his cousin cut him some slack and got to the point because he honestly wasn’t sure that he could handle this today.

“You insensitive bastard,” Jason whispered with a sniffle before releasing a shuddering sigh as he raised his hand and pointed one damning finger towards the small woman sitting quietly in the corner where she was reading on her Kindle. “She’s trying to kill me!”

“We talked about this,” Haley said, not bothering to look up from her Kindle as she pushed her glasses back up her nose.

“I don’t know how much more of this I can take,” Jason said with a sad shake of his head that had Aidan reaching for the small pack of Excedrin in his pocket that he’d grabbed when he’d realized who his next patient was.

“Take what?” Aidan asked as he pulled his cellphone out of his back pocket and checked to see if Melanie texted him only to bite back a groan when he saw the message waiting for him.

“All the dirty things she does to me,” Jason said with an accusing glare at Haley.

“This again?” Haley asked with a sad shake of her head and a bored sigh as she swiped to the next page.

“Yes, this again!” Jason snapped while Aidan popped the aspirin in his mouth and swallowed them dry.

Deciding to take advantage of his cousin’s bullshit, Aidan checked his schedule, noted that his next appointment had been canceled and that he didn’t have anything scheduled until two o’clock. That gave him enough time to take Melanie out for lunch,