Page 12 of Fierce-Jax

Dillion turned from putting her coffee cup in the dishwasher to see her mother standing there.

Since her mother watched Gianna for her, she had a key to the house. It wasn’t as if she expected her mother to ever sit at home all day. Leigh Patrick didn’t do that when Dillion was a kid either.

And though many might not want their mother watching and helping raise their child, Dillion didn’t feel as if she had much of a choice.

Leigh Patrick was the best, even if she was nosier than Dillion cared.

Take the good with the bad.

“I couldn’t sleep,” she said.

“Everything okay?” her mother asked, walking over to help herself to a cup of coffee.

“The usual,” she said.

Her mother would take that as her trying to balance her career, single motherhood, and business ownership. They’dthought she was nuts buying the practice, but she knew in her mind she could grow it to so much more.

She had business ownership in her blood, just not as her father would have wished.

“We knew you might be biting off more than you could chew. I’d ask if there was anything I could do to help, but I know there isn’t.”

“You help me more than I can ever repay,” she said.

And since her mother never let her pay her for Gianna’s care, it was even more frustrating.

It’s not like her parents needed the money, but she felt as if she was taking advantage of things tying her mother down every day.

“That trip to Greenland is more than enough. I still can’t believe you gave us that as a Christmas gift. Dillion, it is too much when you’ve got so much more to spend money on.”

She rolled her eyes. “Mom, you know I’m doing fine. More than fine.”

She had no student loans at all. Very few medical professionals could say that.

Her parents were wealthy.

She grew up wanting for nothing and still to this day, she wouldn’t if she said the word.

She never asked for financial help, but that didn’t stop her father from taking care of things without her knowledge in the past.

This was something she was doing on her own and they knew it.

But it didn’t mean that she couldn’t give back to show her appreciation for all they’d done for her.

It was her mother’s dream to go to Greenland. Her father wasn’t cheap by any means, but he always found one reason or another to not go on vacation.

She took it out of his hands this time.

“It’s not that. Who is going to watch Gianna while we are gone? It’s nine days.”

“Once you tell me when you’re going, then I’ll flex my time to get her to Pre-K and pick her up. My PAs can still work without me there. The practice won’t shut down. Or I can go in for a few hours and have Gianna in the backroom watching TV. I’ll figure it out. Do you know how many dermatologist offices only work a few days a week? And I’m open for five. But you need a break.”

“Youneed the break,” her mother said firmly. “If we are going on vacation, then you need to do it too. Promise me that.”

“I’ll think about it,” she said.

It’s not as if she wanted another topic in her head keeping her up at night.

Like the sexy Jax Hollister that she dreamed of.

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