Misadventures of a Rookie (Misadventures #11)(56)

“Yes way. They are identical, and I know a mother when I see one.”

I just stared at her, but then it made sense.

It’s the same old sob story. Girl falls for guy, gives him every single piece of her, shit goes down, he promises her the world and then some. Next day, he’s gone.

Shit went down.

She got pregnant.

Wow.

Well fuck, why did I feel so betrayed?





Chapter Thirty





Bo





I was putting my night bag on my shoulder when a knock came at my door. “Yeah?”

My mom popped her head in. “Can I come in?”

“Yeah,” I said as I tucked my phone in the side pocket of my bag. “I was about to leave. I’ll be back in the morning.”

“Where are you going?”

“I’m going to see Gus.”

“Are you staying the night?”

“I am,” I said simply, and when I looked back at her, I could see that she wanted to say so much, but she somehow kept it in as she folded her arms over her chest.

“Oh.”

“Yeah, so Davis is in bed. He knocked out in the car. He had a lot of fun tonight.”

“Okay, thank you. I’m sure he did.”

“No reason to thank me,” I said, waving her off. “So I’ll see you in the morning? Or did you need something?”

She inhaled hard, and I could see the white of her knuckles as she looked around my room. “I just wanted to apologize for what happened earlier. I was in the wrong, and I didn’t realize I was pushing you away.”

I shrugged. “Thanks.”

“That’s not my intention. I just want you to be in his life.”

“Mom, I am. As his sister, like you wanted. I asked you, over and over again, if you thought this was a good idea, and you insisted that it was. Not the least bit worried about me or how I felt. How it hurt to see someone else raise my kid. At least if he was with another family, I wouldn’t have seen it, and the guilt wouldn’t eat me alive, but that wasn’t how it was. That’s why I had such a hard time. That’s why I battled depression, and that’s why I left as soon as I turned eighteen.”

She swallowed hard. We hadn’t ever discussed this. I just always held it in. Looking away, she tangled her fingers together. “Then I’m sorry. I didn’t want anyone else raising my grandbaby.”

“And now, I feel the same. I’m so thankful he’s here, but Mom, you gotta give me a bit of a break. It’s a done deal. You’re Mom, I’m not.”

“You’re right.”

I slowly nodded. “Okay, then,” I said softly. “I’m gonna go.”

But I didn’t move. Her gaze was holding mine as she whispered, “I do love you, Bo.”

“I love you too, Mom,” I said as we embraced, but I knew there would always be this wedge between us. I wasn’t na?ve; I knew what had happened all those years ago had ruined us. That was fine. If anything, I had grown from it, and I wouldn’t find myself in that situation ever again.

But then…wasn’t I?

I wasn’t pregnant, thank God, but I was involved with someone who had a one-way ticket out of my life. Someone I was falling for, hard, and that alone should have had me running for the hills.

But instead I was going to the hotel to see him.

Maybe my mom had a reason to worry…

Maybe I hadn’t learned a damn thing from my past.



When the door opened, Gus had no shirt on. His beautiful, defined body stared back at me, and within seconds I was famished. I reached for him and he for me, and he took me in his arms as our mouths crashed together. I ran my fingers along his shoulders as he kicked the door shut. Pressing me into it, he moved his hands along my hips, up to the small of my back, before lifting my shirt up and over my body. Tearing his mouth from mine, he ran it down my neck to my breast, where he took my nipple in his mouth.

“Gus,” I cried out as his hands moved along my body, pulling at my leggings until they were creeping down my hips. Following them with his mouth, he kissed me everywhere until he found my hot center. Moving my fingers through his hair, I arched off the door against his mouth as I cried out. I swear, he had the best mouth I had ever experienced in my life.

Opening me up, he slid his tongue up me, lapping my wetness before dipping the tip of his tongue inside me, causing my legs to shake. Holding them still, he dragged his tongue up my pussy, finding my clit before ruthlessly flicking his tongue against it with nothing holding him back.

Thrashing against the door, I cried out, his name falling from my lips in a lusty way that urged him to go faster. When he sucked my clit into his mouth, I almost came undone. I was right there, but then he stopped abruptly before lapping at my clit. So slow and almost like torture. Barely licking me but licking me just enough to have my toes curling against the hotel carpet as I bit into my lip. Taking ahold of his head, I pressed myself into his mouth, and he chuckled against me.

“Want it, huh?”

“So bad,” I gasped out.

“Say no more.”

Digging his fingers into my ass, he buried his mouth in me, sucking my clit so hard, I came undone like never before in my life. Crying out, I balked against him as my legs went weak.