A Baby for the Bad Boy (A Bad Boy Romance: Dominick and Linden, book THREE) Read Free Page B

Hell’s Ransom drive by. I can’t wait to tell people about this.”
    “Jesus, Mikey, you could have been killed,” I said.
    “But I wasn’t! And now I’ll have a cool story tell along with the scars to prove it. Linden, I have a feeling we’re going to become good friends.”
    I had to laugh at her crazy outlook on the whole thing. “I wouldn’t be surprised if that was true.”
    “Oh my god, my baby!” an older woman cried out as she rushed into the room and practically shoved me off the bed. She draped herself over Mikey and started to sob.
    “Hey mom,” Mikey said and rolled her eyes at me over the woman’s shoulder. “I’m fine, I’ll live, I barely got hit.”
    “I knew you shouldn’t have gone to that school, it’s so full of riff raff,” the older woman wailed and turned her head to glare at me.
    “It’s not the school, mom. It wasn’t even on campus. The police think it’s a totally random shooting and I was just caught in the crossfire.”
    I backed away slowly as Mikey’s mom hugged her daughter tight and continued to moan about the neighborhood and terrible school.
    I waved goodbye and ducked out of there before Mikey’s mom found out I was the one in the truck with her.
    Dom was waiting right where I’d left him, but he was surrounded by a little gang of nurses. Five of them, all giggling and hanging on Dom’s every word, and from where I stood, he was eating it up.
    I stood behind a tall buxom blonde and cleared my throat.
    None of the nurses moved.
    I got annoyed and ducked around the blonde, peeked at Dom who caught me looking.
    He was grinning and caught my eye, winked and stood up.
    “This has all been rather entertaining,” Dom chuckled, “but I have to go, ladies.”
    “Awe, Dom, why don’t you stick around?” a gorgeous red head simpered and put her hand on his arm.
    He looked down at it, glanced at me and laughed. “I’m afraid if I stick around here, I’ll wind up with my face clawed up. Ladies, meet Linden, if I don’t take her home she’s going to burn me up with a glance.”
    “I don’t care if you stay,” I glowered at him. “I’ll catch a cab, I already told you.”
    “And there’s no way I’ll let you out of my sight,” he grinned. “Until another time.” He saluted the gang of nurses and followed me as I stalked down the hallway, angry at myself for feeling jealous and angry at him for loving the attention.
    “Hang on there, darlin,” he said as I punched the elevator call button.
    “What?” I asked and hunched over, my back to him.
    He turned me around and I resisted at first, but gave into him. I looked up at him and saw a smile playing around the edges of his mouth. “That’s adorable.”
    “What is?”
    “Your jealousy, it’s adorable.”
    “It’s not meant to be adorable,” I retorted.
    “Well it is, you can’t help it,” he smiled.
    “I don’t want to be adorable, I want you to take me seriously,” I pouted.
    The elevator dinged and the door opened. We stepped on and I angrily tapped the lobby button.
    He grabbed me, pulled me against him and held me tight.
    “Never doubt one thing, Linden.”
    “What’s that?” I asked breathlessly.
    “I take you very, very seriously.”
    I smiled and looked down, not wanting him to see how pleased I was.
    I wanted him to see me in a serious light, I wanted him to know I wasn’t playing games.
    Most of all, I wanted him.

Chapter Five
Dominick
     
    She hopped on the back of my bike and we headed away from the hospital. I heard her ask me where we were going, but I didn’t want to tell her. I didn’t want to give her a chance to say no.
    I was taking her home, to my place.
    I couldn’t stomach the thought of her out of my sight, and even though I knew we were only headed down a road that could ultimately lead to her destruction, and yet I couldn’t let her go.
    We zig zagged through the streets, traffic was light and thinned out the closer we got to my penthouse.
    I lived in the