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Out of nowhere, I heard a voice I didn’t recognize, roaring, “Jackson Pierce, you do not talk to her that way!”
Instantly, everyone’s heated glares shifted to the woman standing with a peaceful Journey in her arms. Her eyes widened when she realized what she had just done.
Narrowing my eyes at her, I scanned her up and down with a demeaning stare. “Who the hell are you?”
“Jackson,” Skyler snarled, bringing my attention back to her. “I’m interviewing her to possibly be your new nanny.”
My mouth dropped open. “Are you fuc—”
“Boy, you finish that sentence and I swear I will wash your mouth out with soap. Do you understand me?” the woman warned, interrupting me.
“Oh … this is bulls—”
The expression on the chick’s face was enough to render me silent.
I scowled, shaking my head as I backed away. “Whatever.” Eyeing only the woman, I assessed her again. Except this time, I really took my time taking her in.
She was young.
Latina.
Pretty.
Closer to my age than my old man’s, that was for damn sure.
My friends would like her. A lot.
I cocked an eyebrow with a predatory regard. “At least Mary Poppins is hot. Maybe her ass will make my dad leave the hospital and come home for once.”
She jerked back, and Skyler seethed, “Jackson Pierce! You apologize! Right now!”
I rolled my eyes, snidely smiling. “You’re the one who hired her, right?” I shrugged. “Should have thought of that before you decided we needed a babysitter. I am a growing boy, after all. So now what? Should we call you Mommy?” I asked her.
“Oh my God, Jackson,” Skyler bellowed, her face turning bright red from embarrassment.
Mirroring Mary ‘fuckin’ Poppins.
Before anyone said another word, I angrily turned around and stormed into my bedroom. Slamming the door so hard behind me, it rattled the walls.
I waited, listening to them intently at the door.
Skyler sighed deeply with humiliation I could feel through the drywall.
“Wow… that is not how I thought this would go down,” she expressed. “I’m so sorry, Camila.”
Camila?
“I completely understand if you no longer want the position. I truly apologize for wasting your time.” I quickly heard Skyler’s footsteps. “I’ll see you out.” Seconds later, she stopped. “I have to ask. That song… the song you were singing to Journey. Why that song?”
I didn’t have to wonder long what Skyler meant because Mary Poppins answered, “The Annie song?”
The Annie song? The one that made Skyler’s career?
“Yeah,” Skyler agreed. “Out of all the songs you could sing to her, why that one?”
She was singing to Journey? Is that why she was so quiet?
Over the last month, Journey would fall into a fit of fury only I could stop. I understood her, feeling the same way she was.
