Dare You to Keep Me by Serena Akeroyd

Author:Serena Akeroyd [Akeroyd, Serena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary
Goodreads: 48409106
Published: 2019-10-09T00:00:00+00:00

4

Max

When I made it home, my father hadn’t been there. It had been my stepmother, Carrie, who’d texted me, asking me if I remembered the curfew my dad had set when I’d gone to live with him.

How the fuck could I forget the damn thing? It cramped my style something fierce, especially when I was used to being able to do whatever the fuck I wanted, whenever the fuck I wanted.

If he’d set the limits because he cared, I wouldn’t have minded. But he didn’t. He was just a control freak who wanted to keep an eye on me, make sure I wasn’t a deviant or like my mother—a drug addict.

The thought made me want to scoff as I pulled up outside the house in Jessa’s car. Carrie was standing there at the front door, waiting on me like I was a soldier just coming home after a long ass deployment. She was even wringing her damn hands.

Not for the first time, I wondered if my father was beating her. She was scared of her own damn shadow, for Christ’s sake.

“Whose car is that?” she asked the second I climbed out, my sneaker-covered feet crunching against the gravel.

When I heard a, “Is everything okay, ma’am?” I wanted to roll my eyes. The private security guards at the gate all had a crush on her. Hell, even the soldiers who accompanied my dad on occasion couldn’t keep their eyes off her. They all drooled over the general’s wife, but she currently looked too terrified to even notice.

She gulped. “I’m fine, Timothy. Thank you for asking.”

I cut Timothy a look, well aware my father wouldn’t appreciate her knowing the guard’s name. Still, it was on him if every other male in the vicinity appreciated his wife when he didn’t. It was also on him that he was never around, had a main residence on the post where he worked, and felt the need for additional security here because of it.

I didn’t blame the guard for being ‘enamored’ with Carrie. She was beautiful and there was a delicacy about her that would appeal to anyone with even the most basic instinct to protect and defend. She looked like a beautiful lost cause in need of saving, and that was evidently a challenge for the security men who guarded the house.

Heading over to the front door, I frowned at her when she cupped her elbows like she was cold—when it was over seventy degrees right now. “What is it? What’s wrong?”

“I had a call from the principal today, Max. To be honest, I expected you home sooner than this to discuss what happened today.”

I snorted. “What’s to discuss? I didn’t do anything.” It was probably odd that I sounded strident now when earlier I’d been terrified. Hell, terrified was an understatement. I’d been petrified. So fucking certain that I’d end the day in jail, and all because Derick fucking Petersen had a hard-on for Jessa and was trying to stir shit.

But now, after what

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