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I hand him the papers that require his information, such as his phone, work information, address, and so on. He looks at the tuition rates and I saw that look. I saw theoh-my-god-I’m-not-paying-for-thislook, and I don’t blame him. I’m not asking for him to cover it. I’ll be paying for it myself since I have savings built up that I can use for the time being.
The director comes back after the world’s longest phone call and looks over the paperwork. She asks for the debit card to keep on file. I move to grab mine, but Lucas hands her his card first.
“It’s fine, Lucas. I can pay for it.”
“I’m sure you can, but I’m going to do this. Please don’t argue with me about this,” he whispers.
Miss director lady just accepts his card and leaves. Again. She tends to leave strangers in her office unattended. Can she feel the tension in the air, too? Or maybe she doesn’t like Lucas, either.
Oh, maybe he has a secret baby with her, too, and she wants nothing to do with him either.
Lucas puts his hand on my wrist and meets my eyes. There is a rush that I refuse to acknowledge zinging through me and my stupid heart isn’t getting the memo thatLucas equals mistake.
“You’ve done enough so far. Please let me help. That right there is already a lot of money, and I’m sure insurance, food, clothes, whatever else you’ve taken care of hasn’t been easy. Just let me share some of the responsibility.”
I let out a long sigh through my nostrils. More of a growl, actually. “Fine, but when they call to harass me about payments and tell me Jadon can’t come here anymore because you changed your card number or have insufficient funds, I’m busting up your car.” Any excuse to destroy that thing.
Lucas laughs at that. “I wouldn’t expect anything less from you, but don’t touch my car. It’s sacred, now that I know I impregnated you in it even with a condom on. I can’t decide if it’s the car or my magical dick. What do you think?” His brows dance on his forehead while his shoulders shake like he’s so freaking funny.
“You’re an arrogant assho—”
“Okay, I put the card on file and ran a test charge on it that went through. We will start billing you next week,” the director says, coming back into the office.
“Great.” Lucas smiles over at the director like some charming guy who doesn’t spend his free time impregnating unsuspecting women, then shows up acting like the guy that would have been the perfect life partner the past five years.
I need something sweet right now. Or greasy. Or both. And a bubble bath. Maybe a date with Mr. Darcy.
“Well, Allie, is there anything else you wish to ask Daisy before we leave?”
Daisy! That was her name.
“Nope, I’m good. So what’s the earliest I can bring him?”
“We open at six, so any time after that.”
“Great, I’ll be here around seven.”
“Alright, we will see you then.” She leads us over to the reading area where an older kid is reading to Jadon. He sees me and immediately runs over to me and jumps in my arms to tell me all about the things he did while he waited. I may not be four, but I sure would have preferred to play with sand than sit way too close to Lucas-freaking-Kennedy.
We make it to the car and head back to school. Lucas turns to me and has the audacity to ask me another question about my decision-making. “Why are you bringing him an hour before you start work?” He must sense the fury building up again. “I mean, I’m just wondering if there’s a long process or something with dropping kids off.”
“He may need time to adjust to a new routine, so I may have to stay with him for a while before he is comfortable enough. I also want to make sure they follow through on a suitable breakfast for him.”
Also, I need my hot chocolate fix in the morning.
“Oh,” he finally seems to understand. “Is it okay if I come too?”
Why couldn’t I give it up to the guy that wouldn’t want anything to do with me as soon as he found out we had a kid? Why is this… I don’t know. I just don’t know how I feel about it.
“Sure.”
Chapter14
Lucas
Even with the jabs at my expense, Allie is fun to be around. From our little interaction in the director’s office and the way she carefully scrutinized every square inch of that facility, I could see it.
Careful does not even begin to describe the bag of tricks that is this mother of my child. The second I questioned her decision making, she was as diplomatic as she could be–which wasnot at all. It took everything in me not to laugh, watching her nearly tear my dick off and roast it in front of the world. And the way her eye twitches when she has to hold back.
