AllFreeNovel
Share Us
“Easy. The moment you agreed to move in, I signed the house over to you, princess.” I shake my head, because of course he did; it’s a classic Rebel move. I thank him with a soft kiss on the cheek.
“What about all the other stuff you said?”
“Taken care of,” Jax says. “We have your old neighbours, your old employers, your childminder, pretty much anyone you came into contact with in the last four years, ready to testify to what an amazing mum you are. Your bank account is healthy, Nix has a modest trust fund that you regularly add to and have since she was born—”
“Wait! I know that’s not possible!” I interrupt.
“Check your online banking app,” Baxter tells me.
“I don’t do online banking.” I frown, pulling out my phone. Sure enough, there’s an app installed for RBS. “I don’t bank with Royal Bank of Scotland.”
“And yet you know what your login details will be.”
Baxter’s right; I use the same details for everything, so I quickly sign in. When I do, I gasp and almost drop my phone when I see the obscenely high current account balance. Below that there are two savings accounts listed too. One named ‘Phoenix Future’ and the other ‘Rainy Day’. Uncomfortably large sums of money sit in each.
“How’s this possible?” I gasp.
“Don’t question it. It’s all above board. That’s all you need to know,” Baxter insists.
“And the birth certificate?”
“We had to move fast on this one,” Jax tells me. “So we didn’t have time to consult you. We picked the one person we knew couldn’t be Nix’s father and put him on the certificate.”
“Baxter.” I smile. “Why him though?”
“Because Cordelia thinks she has an army on her side. My grandfather’s army to be precise. He won’t lift a finger to help her when he learns that she’s waging war against the mother of his only great-grandchild,” Baxter explains.
“Genius,” I whisper. And it is. They’ve thought of everything while I’ve been moping around in a toddler bed the last few days. I feel pathetic. “I don’t know how to thank you.”
“We can sort all of that later. Let’s get Phoenix back first,” Thorn says with a dismissive wave of his hand and a cheeky wink that lets me know exactly what thanks he’s expecting.
“Breakfast first,” Ace grunts, pointing to the offerings he’s laid out.
“It all looks amazing Ace, and I promise I’ll have something later. But first I need to kick the shit out of something. Is anyone game?”
Raven’s Diary
Present Day
Oh holy crap, how did I get myself into that position? One minute I was happily wallowing in my den of self-pity in Nix’s Hello Kitty bed, the next Jax is breaking down the door and dragging me off to his lair like a caveman. When did that get hot?
Afterwards I wanted to kill him when I realised he had a key to the room all along. Would it have changed what happened between us though? Probably, almost definitely, not.
Racing down to the kitchen and declaring war was the easier option. Part of me was tempted to crawl back into bed. Not to wallow in self-pity over Nix being gone, but to torture myself over what just happened with Jax.
Any sort of action was better than dissecting that. I’ve kept busy since but now that I’m in bed, alone, the guilt is starting to eat at me.
No more sexcapades with Jax.
