Chase & Chloe by Simone Elise

Author:Simone Elise [Elise, Simone]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Inkitt
Published: 2017-07-06T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 36

Chase's Point of View

Remind me again why I was doing this? I huffed, lifting the floorboards with Dan. Renovations. Buying an old house to do up sounded like a good idea as it would keep my hands busy and help me keep a low profile, but this house needed work. A lot of work.

My phone buzzed in my pocket. Considering I hadn't heard from them all day, I was interested in what their excuse would be.

Oliver's number flashed across my screen.

"How is she?" was my first question. I had an endless list of questions when it came to Chloe.

"She's had a rough day." Oliver's voice was smooth, but I could tell he was holding something back, which had me thinking one thing.

"What happened?"

Oliver sighed into the phone. "Well, she got a beating this morning. We witnessed it from sitting in the car. She left the house with a bleeding cheek then she did her normal gym thing and was at uni late. This Chad guy needs to be dealt with. Declan nearly stepped in today, but a teacher broke it up."

"What was he doing?" Did it bother me that some young jerk was hassling Chloe and I wasn't there to deal with it? Yes.

"According to Declan, he felt her up and then had her pinned against a wall. He was getting physical when Declan was going to step in."

"Is this the same jerk from their church?"

"Yep. Same one."

So there was zero chance Chloe was going to do something about him. She didn't do conflict and she wouldn't be mentioning it to her parents.

"Get Declan to have a word with him. Did she see him today?"

Oliver went silent. "Nah, she hasn't changed her routine. We are parked outside the café now."

Chloe's routine is leaving the house at six, going to the gym and then to university, then either goes back to the gym or goes to that café and stays there until nine forty-five. She walks home, and then the day repeats. If it was the weekend though, she went to church, but nothing ever changes.

"Hold on a minute," Oliver said into the phone.

"What?"

"Isn't that the guy from the gym?" Oliver was talking, but not to me. No, to Marc, who was also in the car. They had paired up together. Declan went to the university and Archie covered church functions. They stayed in the shadows, watching and reporting to me.

"Who is there?" I was irritated that Oliver had forgotten he was on the phone.

"That guy from the gym is here and, by the looks of it, to see Chloe." Oliver's attention was back on me.

"Why would he be there?" I couldn't think of one good reason for him to be there but I knew Chloe was one hell of a reason to be there.

"Could be by chance. The gym is only five minutes from this place."

I was getting a strong feeling it wasn't by chance he was there. "Is he going to her?"

"Yeah, but screwed if we know what they’re saying.

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