Depraved (Pleasure And Prey Book 1) by AJ Merlin

Author:AJ Merlin [Merlin, AJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-06-15T16:00:00+00:00

12

“What do you mean he showed up at your cabin?” My mother’s voice has climbed a couple of octaves or so since we started talking, and I’m half-worried that she’s going to pack up and show up before it’s even midnight.

Which would be impressive since it’s nearly ten at night and it would take her at least two hours to get here.

I sit back against the cloth camp chair and stare at the fire that I’ve built. Both dogs are on the other side of it, collapsed next to their food bowls with stuffed bellies that are full of food and the peanut butter that Virgil had snuck them before leaving.

“We’ll talk later,” he’d told me, standing up off the bed. “I need you in a good frame of mind.” Then he’d just…left. Just breezed on out the front door as I’d watched and mourned the kiss that hadn’t happened.

If anyone deserved to be killed today, it was my stepfather.

“He called me a couple of days ago,” I explain, cringing when she makes a few choice comments about me not calling her earlier. “I know, I know. I’m sorry. He said Kate gave him my number.” Her only response to that is a sharp intake of breath, and I can practically see her seething at my words.

“He can’t be there, Sloane,” my mom promises me. “If he shows up again, call the cops.”

“Err…” I look off into the trees instinctively, as if Virgil is just going to appear.

If only it worked that way.

Sullenly I shift in my chair, my shorts riding up my hips as I fold my legs up under me and lean back. It doesn’t seem like a good idea to call the cops with Virgil here. “I don’t know, Mom. I don’t want to make a scene.”

“You’re not the one making a scene!” She’s irritated, but I know it’s not with me. “Are you off this week?”

“I’m off tomorrow.”

“Can I come down to take you to lunch? I want to make sure you’re okay. And discuss Anthony. He can’t do that.” She repeats the words like that’ll make him just not show up again. “I want to go over the rules of his release with you. And I’m going to have words with Kate in the morning.”

I doubt those words will be ‘have a blessed week.’

“Okay…yeah. If you want to?” Twigs snap behind me, prompting Vulcan to look up, his ears pricked, to stare off into the woods. Either it’s nothing, or it’s someone he knows.

And I’m sure there’s only one person he likes that might be creeping up on me tonight.

“Noon okay with you? Or will you still be asleep? I’m also bringing gifts for my grand-puppies.” Her words make me snort, though half of my attention is fixed somewhere else entirely.

Like on who might be creeping up behind me. Prickles of anxiety run down my spine. I’d taken a long nap this afternoon, so I definitely feel better, but I don’t feel one hundred percent just yet.

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