Bad Romance by L Kirk & Bonnie Bliss

Author:L Kirk & Bonnie Bliss [Kirk, L]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Irish Wolf Publishing
Published: 2015-02-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Clara

Oh. My. God.

Oh. My. God.

Oh. My. God.

I kept repeating the same three words over and over again in my head as I panted, leaning my forehead against the cool bathroom stall door. Not the most sanitary place to have a nervous breakdown, but could you really blame me?

He knew me.

He knew that I knew him.

God, this was such a mess now.

I could feel the burn in the back of my throat. I wanted to cry. I wanted to just run and breakdown in my bed, with some Starbucks and a Marvel movie. But no. I was stuck, here, in the best place in the world with a man I equal parts loathed and loved. Yes, I’d loved him. I loved him when I was a little girl. That never stopped. I tried to hate him for what he did to me with the video, but that seemed so far away now. It was out of character from the boy I knew. I wasn’t naïve. I was well aware that people changed. But he seemed so desperate to hurt me. I’d tried to stay away from him, honestly I did. But his pull. He was like a caged lion stalking me around life while I trembled. The tiny mouse hoping when the beast caught her he would be her warrior, not her enemy. I groaned and turned, leaning my back against the stall doors.

Knock, knock.

“Clara? You in there?” The unease in her voice was obvious. I turned, flicked the lock, and opened up.

One look at me and she knew.

“Shit!” She pushed her way into the tiny stall and slammed the door closed, relocking it. “I’m so sorry I let him push his way into our day. I swear I thought Todd had more balls than that.”

I shook my head. “No, this is no one’s fault, Shannon. I—I mean─” Fuck, I had to tell her. I let out a huge breath and charged in. This wasn’t going to reveal itself. This was my job as her best friend to give her all the facts. “I know Dax.”

She looked at me with that drool stare. “Yeah, we all do—unfortunately.”

I was shaking my head. “No, I mean, knew him, know him. Remember the story I told you right after we met? About my best friend that I’d lost?”

She nodded. “Yeah, I mean it was weird. I thought it was some imaginary thing.”

“No, the friend was Dax Trenton.”

She arched a brow when I didn’t continue, and I blew out air again. If I didn’t stop it I was going to pass out.

“Well, my dad brought home this boy when I was seven. Something about how family services and my mom who worked for them said the boy was being abused and we were going to adopt him.” Shannon’s eyes were wide at this point but I kept on. “Well, we were inseparable. Literally, we went everywhere we could and he was like my guardian. I worshipped him, fell in love with him. Then one night, my mom was crying and yelling, my dad was shouting at some man that came to our house.

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