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She’d fucking hate this The thought came to h Tho the wos in life would hate looking like soain basement deals

I crept to the door and looked out into the hallway, left and then right, to make sure there’d be no intruders for the next fewfull of luxury skin care products on the rolling table beside the bed I took a seat and got busy getting Sadie fixed up so she—at the very least—looked like herself

After a quick cleansing and two-step h to allow me to lean over and pamper her face I talked while I worked

“Sorry I didn’t co you like this is hard Probably not as hard as it’s been for you, but I couldn’t do it” I let out a sigh and smiled at the way the makeup put some color back in her skin “You’re like a , and I should have been hereout at Lucky Lopez to make sure your eye candy is trained properly”

I added a pop of blush pink color to her lips that al a quick break fro a badass for a nap

If only that’s all this was

“I know you never want to hear stuff like this, but you haven’t woken up yet, and there’s nothing you can do to stopth Thank you for teaching me that I orth so much more than I ever realized”

Sadie hadn’t just saved iven e of my bubbly personality and a second job that allowed ner brands and fashion, and hohat I was blessed with to get paid

The life I had, it was nothing like the lives of Kat or Maisie, but ; it was exceptional I loved the way I lived, and I owed all of it to the wo, her hair now shiny and curled the way she liked it

“The only thingis Chanel”

It was strange to see Sadie without her trademark Chanel suits, but so but feminine woman who could do exactly what the men did, only she did it better

So petite in her designer wardrobe, she noed signs of being the woman I admired more than any woman in the world, the wo, bad, tough guys ould take a bullet for her without being asked, including Jasper

Especially Jasper For all his coldness, hardness, his ruthlessness, he was still a guy who loved histo protect her

Jasper was a walking contradiction that way He was a bad boy to the bone, but he was also a decentafter employees and business interests on both sides of the law required a certain level of steel and ice in his veins, an unflappable demeanor, and a merciless nature that told the world that he didn’t take shit from anyone It made him hard-hearted, but he wasn’t a man incapable of love No, Jasper was a man who didn’t want love, not in the traditional sense anyway

But he would be a good father if that hat he wanted, what he chose to do with this baby Our baby And if fatherhood was so he wanted to be part of, I was fine with that

I wanted more for my child, and I would do whatever I could to make sure he or she had more Had better

“What a otten myself into, Sadie” I continued to talk while I painted her nails, a deep burgundy shade that I always thought so at odds with her love of light, feminine colors “You always told me to be careful with my heart, and it feels like it was the one piece of advice I didn’t pay attention to but should have”

I didn’t know if Sadie had any idea how I felt about Jasper, and I wouldn’t be the one to tell her, but I needed to talk to someone, and the coma made her the best listener