Total pages in book: 49
Estimated words: 45797 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 229(@200wpm)___ 183(@250wpm)___ 153(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 45797 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 229(@200wpm)___ 183(@250wpm)___ 153(@300wpm)
She had also come to realize that her mother hated Rivermont Ridge and was doing everything she could to try and leave. Including getting her daughter to leave and find a college completely out of town and out of state.
There was only one problem. Charlotte loved this town. It still had memories of her little brother before he passed, and there were good memories, as well as bad. She loved being near her father. Regardless of what Nancy thought, she loved her dad and the club. She felt safe when she was there.
She also knew it was probably because there was an unspoken rule about “hands off the Prez’s daughter,” or whatever, but she didn’t care. This was home to her.
“Mom, please stop,” Charlotte said. “I like it here. I want to follow this path.”
“But don’t you think it is boring, putting makeup on people and, well, making them look pretty?” Nancy asked.
She knew her mother meant well, but Nancy was a master manipulator. Charlotte was not easily fooled.
“I’ll think about it, Mom,” Charlotte said. “I’ve got to head out. I’m going to see Maeve, okay?”
Her mother sighed. “At least you said you’d think about it.”
Charlotte had nowhere to go, but she packed up her makeup bag. She didn’t want to keep hounding Maeve, seeing as the other woman had given her so much already. Instead, she decided to leave and call a cab to take her just outside the Chaos Monsters MC clubhouse.
She did this from time to time, when she needed a break from her mother. She didn’t actually have any friends. She made them up, but it rarely came back to bite her in the ass. Her mother didn’t ask too many questions. She also wasn’t big on having guests over, so Charlotte was able to make excuses, go to the clubhouse, where she could sneak in and be left alone. There was always a bedroom she was able to use, and all she needed to do was lock the door. She was able to do what she wanted, without so much as a single question.
Pulling her makeup case behind her, she kept to the shadows, and she already saw some kind of party was happening. She spotted Mac and a few of the others in the distance. Most people ignored her. She was pretty forgettable. Unlike Maeve and Eden, and several other women, she was a mousey girl, overweight, and unattractive. She had been told enough times by people at school. She certainly never garnered the right kind of attention.
It was so easy for her to sneak into her father’s clubhouse, which is exactly what she was doing now.
She made her way toward the bedrooms, and even though a couple of women passed her and even a few men, none of them stopped her. She lost count of the number of times she did this. Especially when her mother was in her ranting mood, and nothing anyone did could talk her off that edge. It was just easier to walk away. No one paid attention to her.
Everyone ignored her as she made it to the top floor and went to the furthest end of the corridor. Opening the door, she breathed a sigh of relief, because no one had taken it. She couldn’t help but smile as this felt more like home than anything else. Closing the door behind her, her stomach chose that moment to gurgle that it was empty, but she ignored it and instead got involved with work and just focused on everything else.
There was no reason for her to worry about her mother. Nancy was probably already planning to leave, or working on her next tactic. She knew her mother loved her, but the reason Nancy kept talking about leaving wasn’t for her, it was for selfish reasons, because she wanted to go. It wasn’t hard to deduct.
Locking the door behind her, she looked around the room that was always vacant. She figured it was the room the furthest away from the chance of someone getting sex. She’d even seen a couple of the men and women just doing it out in the hallway. They were always so blasé about it, just getting naked and having sex right where they wanted to. It was insane to her. This was the life, though. The same life her mother had never been happy with.
She rubbed her temples, then pushed those negative feelings aside, and instead just focused on being happy, as she opened up the makeup case Maeve had given her. It was one of the best gifts she’d been given in a while. She did get that gift certificate from her mother, but she was not big on clothes shopping. It couldn’t be refunded or transferred either. She would have no choice but to go on that date with her mother, which always ended in disaster. She loved her mother so much, but she could be a little much for anyone.