Page 64 of Fierce-Jax

“I swear it was the best night of my life. Once we got it out of our system, then he was so calculated.”

“What?” her mother asked. “That doesn’t sound good.”

“Oh,” she said, “it was. It’s as if he’s a fast learner and took mental notes of what I liked and then he expanded on them. I don’t know if I’ve ever been with a man that knew my body so well.”

She closed her eyes and tried to picture it in her head again, her body all but feeling ghost tingles from the night before.

From an hour ago.

“Good for you,” her mother said. “I don’t know that I’ve ever seen you so relaxed. So at peace and sure of yourself on top of it. I never did with Alec, that is for sure.”

She sighed. “Mom. Life was different with Alec. I was doing my residency, he was an ER doctor. We had very little time on our hands and demanding careers we were both starting, then add an unplanned child to it.”

“I understand,” her mother said. “And we know how well he managed that.”

“Mom,” she said. “Don’t go there. I don’t need any reminders of what happened. Of what life was like. I would have never wished harm to him and you know that.”

“I’m sorry,” her mother said. “Dillion. He lied to you. Everything was a lie and you didn’t know it.”

She put her hands over her ears like Gianna did when she didn’t want to be told to get to bed. “I can’t hear you. Because you know, that would pour rain over my happy sunny day. You wouldn’t want to do that, would you?”

“No,” her mother said. “And my granddaughter did that same move last night for ten minutes before I could get her in bed. Wonder where she learned it.”

She laughed and removed her hands. “Not me. I’ve never done it in front of her before.”

Dillion couldn’t remember ever doing it as an adult. Maybe as a teen was the last time.

Which of course only made it funnier to her when she saw Gianna doing it.

At least her daughter seemed to take after her more than her father.

Definitely a good thing.

But even though Alec’s high intellect got him through med school and made him a good doctor, some of his negative characteristics came out too often in their daughter and Dillion had to address them as best as she could.

Her mother handed her a cup of brewed coffee and she poured the creamer in.

“When do we get to meet Jax?” her mother asked. “Your father is going to be pestering me. He knows enough not to pester you. You two have gotten along much better in the past few years and we don’t need those fights again.”

She rolled her eyes. “I’m mature enough to know that Dad always meant well even if his approach was more drastic and controlling than I appreciated.”

“Because he told you all along that Alec wasn’t right for you. That something felt off.”

“Dad said that because Alec had no relationship with his parents. That he hadn’t talked to them in over ten years.”

“And that is a sign,” her mother argued. “As much as people might not be close to their parents, they still have some communication. Alec cut his parents out of his life. People don’t do that without a reason.”

“I know the reason,” she said. “I told you it. He said they abused him. Verbally and his father even was physical. His mother turned a blind eye. He made something of himself despite that and never looked back. I don’t know why you couldn’t appreciate that fact.”

It was one thing she admired about Alec.

Too bad her mother was right, and he lied about so much. Or had secrets.

He didn’t handle things as well as he always let on and she was too caught up in her own life to pay much attention to things in front of her face.

She didn’t have that worry with Jax though.

Not in the least.