James (Resisting Love #3)(26)

“Bullshit!” she curses, folding another pair of jeans. I’d lost count after five, but apparently the woman owns a lot of pairs of jeans.

“Seriously, you don’t see my exes calling me,” she snaps.

“They wouldn’t dare,” I rumble cockily. This was apparently not the right thing to say. I move to avoid the pair of jeans that go flying past my face.

“I only have two weeks left of this work, Sasha-”

“So, you’re going to cut her out, then?” she asks, placing her hands on her hips. Her bangles cling together with the motion.

“Cut her out?” I ask.

“Yeah, you know, when you cut someone out. You avoid them, don’t answer their calls and delete them from your life. Kind of like you did to me when I was calling you from Scotland," she says, taking a low blow.

“Ouch,” I mutter.

“Yes or no, James,” she demands.

“I can’t just cut her out,” I sigh, rubbing my hand over the back of my neck in frustration.

“So, you can do it to me, but not her?” she asks, her voice getting higher in pitch. Definitely not a good sign.

I make a ‘calm down’ gesture with my hands that just makes her more pissed off. I can almost see the steam coming out of her ears.

“She still wants you, James, it’s pretty f*cking obvious!” she yells.

“Sasha, I broke up with her for you. I haven’t even looked at her in that way again! Stop being such a bitch for no reason!” I tell her, losing my temper. She storms into the bathroom and slams the door. Luckily Jye is at my mother’s and not here to witness this. I cringe when my phone rings and it's Tatiana. I palm my face and wait for her to leave a message. When my phone beeps I put it to my ear to listen to it.

James, you need to head out to Carmine for the Fiona Reed case. She's ready to be moved to a safe place. Call me, okay. Bye.

Fiona Reed is a lawyer who's a pit bull in the court room, yet somehow scared of her own husband. I don’t know what he did to her, because there was no visible abuse, but the woman was shit scared of him.

“Sasha! I gotta go to The Safe House. Babe, I’m sorry. You’re not a bitch, you’re my beautiful, stunning, amazing, tough girl, okay?” I say, sucking up to her as much as I can.

“Just go, James,” she says tonelessly.

“Sasha, I don’t want to leave you when you’re upset,” I say in a gentler tone. She opens the door with a heavy sigh, like the world is on her shoulders.

“Come here, my pretty girl,” I croon, opening my arms to her. She jumps into my arms wrapping her arms around my neck.

“We’re okay, I love you. I’ve always loved you, and I’m never going to stop,” I tell her.

She nods and kisses me on my neck. “I’ll make it up to you tonight, okay. I’ll be back as soon as I can.”

“Good, you can go down on me for two hours,” she says. I laugh out loud at that.

“Is that supposed to be a punishment for me? Cos it sounds like a reward,” I say honestly. I capture her lips in a possessive kiss before I head out.

***

Sasha

I open the front door to James’ house in agitation. Dressed in only a bath robe, the incessant knocking wouldn’t stop, so I had to jump out of my bath to answer.

“Yes?” I ask in confusion when I see two girls standing there. I blink a few times as I take in their attire. Red leather mini skirt, and a glittery bra. Or at least that’s what it looks like. The second girl is wearing a white mini dress. It’s see through and I can plainly see her nipples. I rack my mind for the date, it’s not Halloween is it?

“Is James here?” Red leather asks.

“No,” I reply.

She pouts. “Oh. Well, how about Kade?”

“Yeah, no.” I tell her, not offering her anything else. White mini dress sighs, looking put out.

“What do you want with them?” I ask curiously.

“What don’t we want with them?” Red leather giggles.

“Right. You know Kade is happily married with children?” I ask, pulling my towel up further.

They both shrug, like it makes no difference. I blink once. And then slam the door in their face. I head back to the bathroom and jump back into the tub. Several minutes later, I hear One Directions ‘More Than This’ coming from my phone. I answer it with a grin.

“Hey, Layla!”

“Hey cuz. How do you feel finally moved in with James?” she asks.

“Pretty good, actually,” I answer.

“Good. Anyway Cole and Jye are back from Lucy’s so I’ll drop him off in about an hour,” she says.

“Perfect! Feel free to bring over some cupcakes,” I say in a hopeful tone.

“Yeah, yeah, I already packed some for you,” she says with a giggle.

“You’re the best. Cole still staying at mine tomorrow night?” I ask.

“Yes! Thank you for keeping him. Chase and I need a night alone,” she says.

“Anytime, you know that.”

“See you in a bit.”

“Okay bye Laylay.” I say before we both hang up. My phone rings again, this time with ‘Lightning crashes’ as the ring tone. Ah. Shit. My finger hesitates around the button before I finally press answer.