Bristol: Tattered Saints MC by Nicole Sulli

Author:Nicole Sulli [Sulli, Nicole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-08-19T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

BRISTOL

The inside of the plantation home is elegant, charming, and decorated tastefully. I make my way through the crowd of people I don’t know, excusing myself as I walk past people in a small corridor that leads to a restroom. I relieve myself and as I’m washing my hands, I stare at my reflection in the mirror. My lipstick is smeared slightly, no doubt from kissing Sebastian in front of his fuck buddy. I thought I would feel jealousy, but all I felt in the moment was amusement and almost a little sympathy for her. I’d heard her talking about how he told her he didn’t want commitment or a relationship. And I know it appears that that’s what we have, but we haven’t really discussed it.

I feel like that’s the direction we’re heading but what do I even know about how adult relationships work? I had a boyfriend in high school, sure, but it wasn’t anything serious. The only relationship I have to base anything off of other than my parents is the way that Patrick treated me and I’m pretty sure that doesn’t fucking count as a relationship considering I was a hostage and he was the hostagee — or hostager or hold-hostager?

I wipe the smeared lipstick from the corner of my mouth and wipe a black mark from beneath my eye where my eyeliner had smeared. I turn the water off and exit the bathroom with one last glance at my reflection. I almost don’t recognize myself anymore. It’s crazy how far I’ve come in such a short time.

I walk past the same group of people in the corridor on my way to the front doors when a shoulder bumps gently into mine in passing.

“Oh, I’m sorry,” I say, stepping to the side.

I’m met with a familiar face that smiles wryly at me. “No, I’m sorry. I wasn’t watching where I was going.” Agent McCreary, dressed in a similar suit to the one he was wearing the day he arrested me, stands before me.

I can feel the blood draining from my face and everything in me says I need to run far away from him before he has the chance to find some random bullshit reason to arrest me again, but my feet are rooted in place. I’m unable to move. A deer in the headlights whose brain is in overdrive and panic is slowly creeping up the back of my neck.

I reach a hand out to steady myself, but there’s nothing nearby.

“Take it easy. I’m not here to arrest you.”

“Good to know,” I quip, crossing my arms. The gesture enough to give me a sense of stability.

“Just wanted to check up and make sure you were staying true to your word and not leaving town.”

I stare at him, unfazed by his words. Now that the room doesn’t feel like it’s going to turn upside down on me like in Alice in Wonderland, a little of my fight is taking the place of some of that panic I was feeling.

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