Tame This (The McCallans, Book Two) by Hadley Quinn

months, naïvely hoping that he would be done with her and move on. But now she was getting texts from him again, begging to speak with her. His voicemails to her were of the same sort, but even though he sounded extremely remorseful about what happened, his continuous apologies weren’t enough.
    And now he was back to driving three hours from Fresno just to see her.
    She really did need to talk to him about the baby, though. Putting it off any longer wasn’t going to resolve anything and she wasn’t going to feel comfortable with her decisions until she at least spoke to Jordan.
    She sat down on the couch and found his number on her phone. It really would have been the easier choice to put it off again, but she needed to get this over with.
    “Thank God,” Jordan exhaled when he answered her call. “Melanie, I really want to see you. To talk to you. Please. I know I’ve fucked up over and over but—”
    “Yes, I’ll meet with you.”
    He paused. “Really? Well fuck, I just got back to Fresno. If you would’ve just—”
    “That’s fine. I’ll meet you there. I’d like to see family and friends anyways, so I’ll be staying at my Uncle Tim’s house for a couple of days.”
    “Okay… so when do you want to meet?”
    “Tonight. But I’m not meeting you alone, Jordan. I’ll have someone with me.”
    “If you think you’re bringing that motherfucker here to my house, think again,” he growled in a low voice.
    “I’m not exactly sure which ‘motherfucker’ you’re talking about,” she replied, holding back a smile. He could be talking about Teague or Jay—or Camryn, for that matter—but Melanie was pretty sure he meant Jay. “And besides, I’m not meeting you at your house. You’ll meet me at my uncle’s gym, got it? Seven o’clock.”
    He paused again but she could hear him take in a breath of air and release it. “Fine, seven o’clock. See you there.”
    Melanie hung up and released her own breath of air, hoping she’d feel more relaxed. But the worry that was pulsating through her wouldn’t let up. Uncertainty was the emotion she felt the most of these days, but she could hardly complain about it. It was her own stupidity, her own mistakes that had gotten her to this point. And she felt guilty and heartbroken that she’d put Camryn through so much crap over the years. One of these days she would make it up to her big sister.
    Melanie’s goal was to stand on her own two feet, and although she knew how much she had accomplished so far, it still seemed so unreachable. She was twenty years old and had a part time job, but she was also pregnant and still living with her sister without any true direction. She loved life and had the energy to make something of it, but so far she had no idea where to start.
    S he exhaled a deep breath of air, and since steady breathing hadn’t helped, Melanie decided to jot a few notes down in her songbook to calm herself before she left for Fresno.

 
    Chapter Five
     
     
    “Tell me you didn’t just put that in your mouth.” Jay had watched Kyle drop a donut on the garage floor, pick it up, and take a huge bite out of it.
    “I just swept this floor,” Kyle answered with his mouth full.
    “That’s still disgusting.”
    “Not as disgusting as you eating a jalapeño-fucking-habañero-whatever-the-fuck-it-was-called garlic pickle on a dare.”
    Jay slowly smiled. “That was for money.”
    “It’s still gross. Even if—”
    Kyle stopped short when he stared into the office. Jay turned around to see the familiar brunette step up to the counter, but then she spotted him through the window and smiled with a wave.
    “That’s Sophia, right?” Kyle asked.
    “Yeah,” Jay answered as he wiped his hands on a rag.
    “You two back together?”
    “Nah, we just… I don’t know what she wants, to be honest,” he shrugged.
    “Well based on that low-cut top I’d say she wants you to bone her,” Kyle chuckled.
    Jay didn’t respond and just pushed