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I take another bite of the yogurt as I hear a key in the front door of her apartment Then it opens seconds later I expect it to be Sarah and Gunner, but a bleach-blond enters instead Her green eyes find me instantly They drop to the towel that sits low on ination They slowly run up overto my chest When theyhere “Who the fuck are you?” she demands

I take another bite of the yogurt “Who the fuck are you?” I ask, although I already know

“What should I wear …?” Blakely trails off, exiting her bedrooo to the wo here?”

“Blakely,” she hisses when her eyes go to her daughter They pause on the bite marks and hickeys that dot her neck and run down over her arirl “What in the fuck is going on here?”

Blakley looks atopen and eyes still the size of quarters I finish offpast herher face, I lean down and gently kiss her forehead “Don’t take long” Then I walk into the bedroo the door behind me

BLAKELY

“MOM,” I GASP “What are you doing here?” I ask, blinking The fact that Ryat kissed ht me out of my trance

“Looks like I got here just in ti her hands on her hips “Who the fuck was that, and what have you been doing with him?”

I roll my eyes “That’s none of your business—”

Her rough laugh interruptslady Everything you do isyou Is this why you haven’t been answering? Because you’ve been with him?”

I frown “I haven’t had any calls from you”

“Like I believe that” She snorts “Where the fuck is Matt?” Her dark green eyes search the apartment as if I have him hidden so a fuck fest with both him and Ryat

I fist ether any on me” My voice rises