“That’s not my jam,” I chuckled.
“You don’t know what you’re missing.”
I grinned and closed my eyes.
Ella was more than enough for me.
Chapter 54
Ella
Instant stress accompanied the text.
I was weeks away from my twenty-fifth birthday, and I knew he would never change.
I stared at the screen again.
How long could his liver possibly last?
JC:Please. I won’t ask you for anything ever again. You’re rich now. £25k is nothing to you. Transfer the money and I will lose your number. These men will kill me.
Nick plucked the phone from my hand.
“Hey.”
I was more embarrassed about my piece-of-shit dad than I was about Nick taking my phone.
He didn’t say a word. He didn’t need to.
His face darkened. Lips tightened. Jaw clenched.
Then he passed my phone to Alec.
I closed my eyes and sighed.
Years of shame were a hard habit to shake.
When I opened my eyes, my pale blue phone rested in Rowan’s hand.
He took a sip of coffee before tapping on the screen.
I couldn’t see what he was writing, but it looked like he was responding to my dad.
He smiled grimly as he handed the phone back to me.
The message log was gone.
I set the phone on the table.
Alec tapped my leg. When I looked down, the dusky pink pill rested between his thumb and finger.
When he opened his hand, there was no white pill.
No contraception.
I stared at him, confusion blooming, slow and cold in my chest.
No. It wasn’t just him. All three of them were staring at me. Waiting.
