Beautiful Monster by Cate Sara
Author:Cate, Sara [Cate, Sara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Adult
Amazon: B0855HB8PG
Goodreads: 201737285
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services
Published: 2020-06-09T07:00:00+00:00
Sunny
My phone buzzes behind my head, and I reach back and silence it without looking at the name on the screen. Alexander and I were up until almost two a.m. binge-watching something on Netflix, and I know itâs probably at least eleven in the morning already. I smell the coffee from the kitchen.
He didnât touch me again after the encounter in the pool, which I had to admit grated my nerves. I wanted to keep playing that little resistance match, but that was the difference between us. For me, it was a game. For him, it was his life.
I don't know if Alex will ever get over our age difference and be ready to let me in. Somewhere in his head, he thinks he belongs with someone else, someone his age, better suited to his lifestyle instead of a teenager he won't even introduce to his friends. I have to live with the fact that if he did give in to what I tempted him with last night, it would just be sex. And thatâs it. And that would kill me.
My phone starts buzzing again. My dadâs picture pops up on the screen. Sitting up in a rush, I click the green button and hold it up to my ear.
âHello?â
âWhere the hell are you?â he bites across the phone line without a greeting.
âWhat?â I stutter.
âYour mother said youâre sleeping over at the neighborâs house.â
The blood drains from my face. In a rush, I jump out of bed and run to the kitchen. Alexander is sitting on his laptop with a coffee cup in his hands. I take a mental picture of how hot he looks in the early morning light.
âWell, did mom tell you why?â I respond.
Alex tilts his head in question at my conversation. I just shake my head at him.
âIâm staying in his guest bedroom because I canât stand to be in that house anymore, Dad. I canât be around her anymore.â
âWhat the fuck did she do?â my dad asks, sounding exasperated. Iâm still waking up, but now I can make out the sound of his car in the background and realize that heâs on the road somewhere. Whatever effort he put into calling me was just enough to put in a call on his way somewhere.
âDonât worry about it,â I mumble. Iâm not protecting my mom. I just donât need the added anxiety. If I tell him what she did, then heâll get involved. And itâs prolonging something that I just want buried in my past.
âSo, what? Youâre sleeping with Alexander Caldwell now?â
I flinch at the accusation in my dadâs tone.
âWeâre just friends, Dad.â
Alexanderâs eyes are on me, and I avoid his gaze as I defend our relationshipâour strange, undefinable relationship.
âWell, I donât know how I feel about you sleeping in a strange manâs house. I know Caldwell, Sunny. Heâs not the kind of guy you leave your nineteen-year-old daughter with.â
âIâm twenty, Dad.â Staring out at the pool, I feel Alexâs presence behind me, putting his hand on my shoulder.
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