Page 5 of Jack

My biggest regret with my ex was giving him my virginity.

It was painful and very unfulfilling. He didn’t get me ready to take him, he didn’t make it special. We had sex for all of six minutes, until he climaxed then he pulled out, took a shower before leaving me in my room alone so he could go and watch the game with his friends.

That right there was the first red flag, and I should have run then, but I let my mother convince me to stay.

“He always seeks you out, honey,” my aunt says.

“Huh?” She looks at me and she gives me a wide smile.

“Jack. Whenever you are in the same room, he always looks for you, and watches you. You could do far worse, sweetie. After what that toad did to you, you deserve a man who will worship you, and I believe that the other Masters twin can give you that.”

Her words warm my heart but also scare me. He has Dom to think about, and from what I have heard from the girls, Jack doesn’t date, he has hook-ups now and then, but he never has a relationship.

He never allows women around his son, because he wants to be the best dad and a great role model, which I think he has done in spades.

What he told me earlier about no more running, has my heart racing in a different way.

Would I like to see if we could have something? Yes. I have crushed on him for so long.

He also has Dominic to think about. It scares me that once I fall for him— because I have no doubt that I will, as I fall hard and fast, always have— he could decide that he doesn’t want me, just like Christopher did, and sleep with someone else before ending it with me.

I can’t go through that again.

The whole situation is something to think about. Something that needs a deep dive into all kinds of scenarios of every outcome.

“Tree and Kady got lucky with their men. I think I am doomed to be single all of my life. Jack is a nice guy, but he has his son to think of, and that is the main thing.”

“Lilith, honey, he would be lucky to have a woman like you. Both of them would.”

“Maybe.”

“I did not want to bring this up now, but have you received the invite?”

I give her a shaky nod.

“I am so sorry, sweetie; we will all be there for you.”

The invite that she is speaking of is the wedding invitation of my cousin Vanessa and my ex Christopher. She’s the woman I caught him cheating on me with. It seems that they want to hurt me even more and had the balls to invite me to their wedding.

What is worse is that my mother will demand that I attend.

I often think that my mother hates me. She has never treated me like I was hers, just an inconvenience that was bestowed on her life.

“HE IS HERE!” gets bellowed.

We all look to the door and see a beaming, happy, smiling Royal. My heart feels light and warm seeing how happy he is.

“A boy. Oh, thank God,” Dom cheered, making people laugh.

The club, his family, surround him, hugging, slapping him on the back in congratulations. Royal walks over to my aunt and uncle, hugging them, before he turns back to the room, with his mom, Risky, tucked into his side.

“Tree is great, a fucking rock star. No way could a man ever go through what women go through during labor. Man, that was tough to watch, but my girl did it.”

“Women are stronger than men, remember that, Uncle Royal. Without women, man does not walk the earth.” Trust Juni to say truthful words that many do not agree with.

“Damn straight,” Finan calls out, hugging his daughter.

“Can we see them?” my aunt asks the new father.

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