Page 26 of Biggest Player
“Wrapping children up in your web of lies, I see?” She clicks her tongue.
I barely notice my date sitting at the table, puzzlement marring her pretty face.
“I’m sorry—do I know you?” I already know the answer but stall for time, no idea what to say that will make any of this better.
It’s a fucking mess.
“We have not met in person.” Wyatt’s mother looks down at her daughter. “Wyatt, sweetie, you know better than to talk to strangers.”
Ah. There it is.
“I wasn’t talking to a stranger. I bumped into Dad.” Wyatt pauses. “Don’t you recognize him? Where are your glasses?”
Her mother rolls her eyes, taking her by the hand. “Enough out of you, young lady.”
Feisty firecrackers, both of them.
Damn, I like this kid.
She reminds me of me.
“You know what?” Madisson announces, pushing back her chair and standing, tossing her napkin to the tabletop. “This is way too much drama, even for me.” She snatches up her purse. “I can see now that this wasn’t worth the trouble I’m going to be in with my parole officer.”
And with that, she storms off toward the exit, the three of us staring after her.
Chapter 6
Margot
What.
The.
Actual. Hell.
Is going on.
Am I losing my hearing or did his date just say,I can see now that this wasn’t worth the trouble I’m going to be in with my parole officer.
Parole officer?
“What the hell is going on here?” I glare at the idiot from the dating app. He is a man I literally just deleted. “What the hell are you, some kind of creep?”
Dex from the dating app holds his hands up as if in surrender, and I can’t help but stare at them. They’re big hands.
Huge.
“This isn’t what it looks like.”
I snort. “Oh really? What do I think this looks like? Please, be my guest and tell me.”
Because what it looks like is he has my daughter in some sort of situation I can’t wrap my brain around.Whatever this is isn’t just a friendly conversation—they’re up to something. It’s confusing, and I know for a fact she referred to him as Dad when I walked up.
My ears were not playing tricks on me.
This is sus.
Not only that, I know my daughter well enough to know she’s prone to mischief—this has Wyatt shenanigans written all over it.
