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The desperation in her voice gave me pause. And that irritated me further. As much as I didn’t want this woman to affect me, she did.
Her delicate fingers had an iron grip on my shoulder. She tugged, a fervent attempt to get me to turn around.
Open the door. Walk out. Don’t look back.
Pick up your foot. Take a step forward.
She shimmied between me and the door. How did she put off such heat?
I turned my head, refusing to look at her... and still unable to just leave.
“She wants me to help her.” The words were spoken quietly. Honestly. She touched my cheek and forced me to look at her.
Those green-gold eyes shimmered. Not with tears, but with desperation and determination. I had no idea what she’d been through, what her life had been like. Somehow with that look, she made mefeelit. Her uncertainty and her fear and her will.
“I didn’t tell her yes,” she said softly.
“But you didn’t tell her no.” That stung. Which made no sense. Alma was her sister. Her blood. And I was just the sorry brother-in-law.
I wanted someone to believe in me. Someone who was in my corner because they wanted to be there. I was sick of being the only one who ever gave. Yeah, I got a lot of money in return for my giving, but it suddenly felt hollow.
My hand clenched the doorknob. “You can’t help both of us, JoJo. You have to pick a side.” Finally, I pushed down on the handle. “Choose wisely.”
CHAPTERTEN
JOJO
He left.
After all of my begging and jumping to his schedule, he left.
Oh no no no.
I’d had enough of people coming in this apartment making demands. I rushed out the front door.
Thank goodness for the slow elevator.
Kane stood directly in front of the gold doors, his posture tense. He stabbed the button a few times. It was wasted effort, but I understood.
I slid between him and the doors, back in dangerous territory. If I’d been aware of how little I had on before—and I had been—now it was painfully glaring.
Fire raged in his blue eyes.
I didn’t want to need him... in any capacity. But this was for my daughter.
There was nothing I wouldn’t do for her. Including standing in front of a man I didn’t like in my nightgown, ready to beg, plead, and grovel if I had to.
“You promised,” I said. My voice was much stronger than I felt, though the edge of desperation had crept through.
“A tremendous lapse in judgment on my part.”
He still focused on something just above my head.Look at me, you ass.
I cringed. Now wasn’t the time to be calling him names, even in my head. Even if they were true.
He bailed you out of jail.
So he wasn’t always an ass.
