in town.”
“HOWEVER!” Lance said giving his brother the
finger. “That is not Shelby. She paid for your criminal attorney to
keep you out of jail for the next 20 years. Because your crack head
one night stand tried to sell her into child slavery. She paid
family court lawyer to get you complete custody of your daughter
and make sure that she has no visitation and she paid of the
mortgage to the shop so you can start with a clean slate and SHE is
a bad guy? Lance said yelling at his brother. He sat back in his
chair trying to calm down so that his yelling would not scare his
mother and hid niece. Lance had been very angry with his brother
sense finding out how he had treated Shelby.
“Well go ahead and give down to the country
son!” his mother said in her calm southern belle accent. They all
laughed and the mood relaxed. Gia ran up to Logan, “Daddy I need to
go potty!” she said doing the little girl I have to pee pee dance.
Before Logan could get up Lance said “I will take her. Come on
ladybug lets go tinkle”
“Tinkle really?” Logan said to him as his
brother walked back into the house
“Shut up!” Lance said to him.
“Shut up is not a nice word uncle Yance!” Gia
said.
“Yeah uncle Yance!” Logan said laughing and
shaking his head. Once Gia and Lance were in the house Leanne
turned to her son and took his hand.
“Logan, you have spent your whole life being
angry at the things that are unfair in this world. I have allowed
you to have your anger hoping that it would be a way to make you
cope. But what it has done is made you bitter. It has made you push
a very special woman away from you.” she said to him. Reaching up
she turned his head to look her in the eye. “Shelby had never
judged you. Do you think it’s fair for you to judge her? Love her,
don’t love her. Whatever you decide Logan let it be for the woman
she is. Not the family she came from” she finished squeezing his
hand.
Logan knew his mother was right and he had
really messed up. He was not sure the steps to take to get Shelby
to forgive him. But he knew the first thing was making up with his
brother. When Lance and Gia came back out onto the patio, Gia
running straight for the swing set. Logan stood up and grabbed
himself and started to jog in place. “Uncle Yance I need to go
potty!” Lance and his mother started to laugh hysterically. Shaking
his head Lance said to his brother “you are going to go on yourself
then. I am not taking your big butt to the bathroom I know how
ex-cons think!”
“LANCE!” his mother said
CHAPTER 5
“Cassidy I cannot wear this on my date with
Zach!” Shelby was saying to her friend. She was standing in front
of her full length mirror. Looking sexier than she thought was
possible for her to look. Cassidy had, had her stylist come over to
do her hair she had put it up is a French twist with soft tendrils
coming down to frame her face. She was still getting used to
highlights and the lighter color but she loved it. Cassidy had
chosen a beautiful crossover bust line dress that had a soft, clear
elastic to hold it to her skin and allows the sleeves to sit
slightly off-shoulder. The dark purple fabric was a unique matte
knit that has a beautiful drape and stretch. A built-in stretch
Bengaline shaper for the bust, waist, and lower hip gives support,
structure, and holds her in, while the gathered outer fabric
disguised the internal structure and gave her a sleek and clean
silhouette. The result was an incredibly sexy and attention
grabbing wiggle dress. She was wearing pearl drop earrings and
classic pearl strand with nearly round freshwater cultured pearls
strung on a hand-knotted silk cord, secured with a 14k white gold
safety clasp.
“Oh Hush Shelby!” Cassidy said to her friend
looking at her in the mirror. They were both looking at her in awe.
“Girl you look so good I might give you head. Now stop fidgeting
and go and get your purse” Cassidy finished.
“CASSIDY!” Shelby said