A Righteous Man by Crownover Jay

Author:Crownover, Jay
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jay Crownover LLC
Published: 2020-12-27T00:00:00+00:00

Salinger

I WAS TIRED, as always, and I wasn’t expecting company. So, when I heard someone moving through my house when I was supposed to be alone, my first instinct was to alert my security company. Jeno was out on a date. I didn’t expect him home anytime soon, if at all. I didn’t expect him to ever mention or see the girl again. The boy was doing his best to sleep his way through the greater Los Angeles area, and it wasn’t like I could tell him what a bad idea that was. When I was his age, I did the same thing, until I realized I was just as addicted to sex as I was to everything else that made me either numb or feel really, really good.

I took the act of being with someone much more seriously these days, but for the life of me, I couldn’t find the right words to explain to Maren why what happened in her hotel room wasn’t just a one-off. Part of me was convinced she wouldn’t believe me. Another part knew she would deny that she returned the attraction that simmered so close to the surface whenever we were alone together. She already played the ‘I was drunk’ card when I tried to talk to her about what happened. To keep the peace and make our professional association easier, I was willing to drop the encounter—for now.

What I wasn’t going to let slide was an intruder in my house. After some of the insomnia fog that forever swirled in my mind at night lifted, I roused myself enough to carefully search for whomever was invading my private sanctuary. But I realized no one could get through the gate at the entrance of the community without being on the admittance list. And no one was getting close to my house without the code to the gate at the end of my driveway. They also had to have their fingerprint keyed into the lock for the front door to open without setting off every alarm in the place. There were only five people in the whole world who had access. Me. Jeno. The older woman who came in and cleaned for us twice a week. Our grandmother. And Jeno’s mom. The last one I’d been against, but Jeno insisted. He wanted to make sure she could get in on the off-chance he was tied up somewhere and couldn’t get to me in an emergency. I tried to explain to him that his mom would let me bleed out before she tried to save me. She wouldn’t even spit on me if I was on fire, but he didn’t see her the same way I did. As controlling and demanding as she was, she was still his mother, and he believed she wanted what was best for him.

I’d encountered her in the house more than once. She always claimed she was there for something with Jeno, like doing his laundry or dropping off food for him so we didn’t live off delivery for days on end.

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