Irresistible (Neighbor from Hell #11) - R.L. Mathewson Page 0,79

don’t make me kill you,” her best friend said, giving her shoulder a comforting squeeze that she really didn’t find all that comforting at the moment.

“Is there a reason why you’re threatening me, waddles?” Melanie asked, turning her head so that she could watch her best friend’s eyes narrow dangerously on her.

“I don’t waddle.”

“Not yet…”

“I really do hate you,” Rebecca said, nodding solemnly.

“The feeling is mutual,” Melanie said, unable to help but smile when Rebecca glared.

“Don’t screw this up because of what Adam did. Aidan is nothing like him and would never hurt you,” Rebecca said, giving her shoulder another squeeze that had her frowning.

“I didn’t think you liked Aidan.”

Rebecca dropped her arm away and grabbed her drink as she cleared her throat and mumbled, “I may have, ummm, underestimated him.”

“What makes you say that?” Melanie asked, watching as Rebecca threw a nervous glance over her shoulder.

“Many things,” was all Rebecca said as she took a sip of her drink.

“You’re not going to tell me, are you?”

“I’d really rather not talk about it if that’s okay with you,” Rebecca mumbled as she started to look over her shoulder again, rethought it, cleared her throat, and said, “Stop overthinking this and tell the man that you love him so that you can put him out of his misery.”

Chapter 40

Maybe this was a bad idea?

Definitely a bad idea, Melanie decided as she glanced around the empty waiting room and decided that it was a bad idea to bother Aidan at work. Definitely a bad idea, she thought, worrying her bottom lip as she glanced over at the white door that led to the back and found herself shifting nervously in her seat as she slowly exhaled.

She could do this.

She could definitely do this, Melanie told herself, following that up with a firm nod only to realize that she was shaking her head and eying the exit again. That was followed by telling herself that she was overthinking this and decided that as soon as Aidan opened that door that she was going to tell him just how much she loved him and-

“I told Dr. Bradford that you were waiting,” the very friendly receptionist said with a warm smile before she closed the privacy glass and Melanie decided that she should probably go since she was a coward.

Decision made, she grabbed the brown paper bag filled with takeout from Aidan’s favorite burger place that she’d picked up hoping to distract him, carried it over to the receptionist desk, placed it on the counter with, “Can you please give this to Aidan. I um, have to go,” before quickly making her way back to her seat, threw her bag over her shoulder, grabbed Cody’s car seat, noted that he was still asleep, and rushed out the door, only to sigh in relief when she spotted her car, and-

“What are you doing here?” came the unexpected demand that had her berating herself for not moving her ass faster.

For a brief moment, Melanie considered asking her sister what she was doing here, but since she really didn’t care…

“I can’t believe you turned out to be such a bitch,” Caitlyn said, somehow managing to say the one thing that would make Melanie slowly turn around, telling herself that there was no way that she could have heard her sister correctly, not after everything that she’d put her through over the years.

“I’m sorry, what was that?” Melanie found herself asking.

“I really just don’t understand how you could do that to someone,” Caitlyn said, shaking her head in disgust.

“Who am I doing what to?” Melanie asked, glancing down at Cody to make sure that he was still-

“Trying to force Aidan to marry you,” Caitlyn snapped, making her frown.

“I have no idea what you’re talking about,” Melanie said since they’d never even talked about getting married, something that she’d been afraid that he would insist on when she was pregnant. As much as she loved Aidan and would love to spend the rest of her life with him, she couldn’t marry him because of Cody.

“You are so full of shit! You got pregnant on purpose to get back at me.”

“No, I didn’t,” Melanie said, shaking her head because she would never do something like that.

“Do you really think that I’m the only one that figured it out? It wasn’t difficult to count back nine months and figure out what happened,” Caitlyn snapped, shaking her head in disbelief. “I get that you weren’t happy about finding out about Adam and me,