Justice For Juniper (Tatienne Richard) novel Chapter 135

Justice For Juniper

Sugar Baby Part I

Juniper was sitting on the edge of the bed with her head reeling and her heart fuller than she’d ever imagined possible. They’d returned to the villa only a few minutes ago and it had been difficult to leave Beni’s grandparents‘ house. When Fermínsaid his mother Anna was going to love her to death, he hadn’t beenwrong.

The woman arrived when after dinner drinks were being poured and everyone was sitting around the patio happily chatting with Juniper and Fermín exchanging all kinds of information and Anna was frozen in her footsteps. Like Inigo, she took one look at Juniper and rushed to her whispering her dead daughter’sname.

For a moment, Juniper was concerned they’d all be using her to replace Martina in their lives, but it was a short–lived concern. Her grandmother had coddled her desperately. She’d been yanked away from Phineas‘ lap to sit between Inigo and Anna and there was a level of affection to this woman she’d notdreamed possible.

The woman was so emotional, she’d struggled to speak English, a language she apparently had spoken from the time she was a baby. She also ordered Fermín to make sure everything from homes to bank accounts were ready to be transferred to her granddaughter’s name. When Beni questioned whether they needed DNA or paternity tests done, Anna had gone off in a string of Spanish that Juniper didn’t need to understand thelanguage to know she was ripping him a new one.

Eventually, the yawning had started, and Beni’s grandparents were clearly ready to have their guests get the hell out of their house as Abuelo was nodding off in his patio chair. With tearful bids to see each other again the next day, which after a look at watches was really later the same day, Juniper was bundled into a car and brought back to Phineas‘ villa.

The three men were all downstairs making sure the house was secure and she was now alone, for the first time, letting the emotions of the day settle into her chest. She had a father. She had grandparents. People she’d never thought she’d ever need or have in her life and yet she knew if tomorrow she got up and they were gone, she’d be devastated.

Her mother had messaged from the interior of the plane to tell her to let the big asshole she was on board, and he better be ready for a punch to the sack when she landed but Juniper knew her mother was scared, and it wasn’t of flying. She had a feeling her mother was going to be equally if not more emotionally than Fermín was and it was saying something. The number of times she’d caught him watching her with tears on his cheeks over the course of the evening were too many to count.

She had a dad.

“What are you thinking?”

The quiet words from the door of the bedroom made her look up to see Beni leaning in the entrance, his feet crossed at the ankles and his arms folded over his chest with a gentle smile on her face.

“I was thinking I have a father. I never knew I even wanted one until tonight but man,” she blew out a breath loudly, “I really want it.”

“Oh, you’re getting it, like it or not. Does your father seem like the kind of man who ever takes no for an answer? Your mother is scared of flying and she’s due to land in four hours.”

“But” she protested.

“I only have one question.” Beni grinned at her.

“What?”

“Since you’re all far wealthier than I am now, can I be the sugar baby in the relationship?”