Desperate Longing by Brenda Billock

Author:Brenda Billock
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: crime, mystery, police, romantic, sensual, agoraphobia, phobia
Publisher: Billock Books

Chapter Eleven

In the past two years, Kacy’s life had become routine. She didn’t like confrontations. She didn’t like change. Worse, she loathed to have to tell anybody about the nights burned into her memory. Each day the memories seemed more vivid because of the nightmares she endured. She had tried to forget. She wanted to die and yet she wanted to live to see her demon die.

Gulliver had upset her world. She truly felt a bond with him. He had forced her to break the shell she cowered in, and he deserved to know details.

He moved off her.

“He frightened me for so long I thought I was going to die.” She pulled her knees up and held them against her bared breasts.

“You don’t have to talk about this if you don’t want.”

She had to. He only told her she didn’t have to out of kindness.

“He was so meticulous about breaking down my mind, giving me hope and pleasure, and then taking them away. Each time was more severe.”

Gulliver slid up alongside her and pulled her into his arms. She nestled her head against his shoulder.

“It was a nice night,” she continued. “I had just gotten home from shopping. The sun had gone down so the twilight had that red glow just before dark. I used to have a bad habit of putting stuff away as I went, and once, I forgot the ice cream in the car until last. It melted all over my trunk. That night, I made several trips to the car and carried all my groceries into the kitchen before putting any of them away.”

She rubbed her face against the hardness of his bare chest. The skin was warm, soft, and finely layered with short, velvety hair.

“My open door was like an invitation for anyone to enter. I shut the trunk and headed back in the house and there he was, standing in my foyer.” She brushed her hand over Gulliver’s stomach, not knowing how agitated her moves were until he gripped her fingers and pulled them to his lips.

“He didn’t come through your bedroom window?”

“No.”

“The report said he entered the residence through the window.”

“What report?” She pulled away and gathered her blouse together. “When did you read a report about me and why?”

His snooping around into her past gave her a creepy feeling, like the time she came home and found the porcelain girl figurine moved.

“I got it from the police department.”

“When?”

“Before I moved in. I did a check on who my neighbors would be.”

“So, Allen wasn’t the one that told you what happened to me.” She scooted off the bed.

“No, but he did know, so don’t go jumping on me for spreading the word. I’m guessing he read the news back when it happened.”

“Did you fill in the blanks and give him more to say about me to the parents of children I know?”

“I wouldn’t do that.”

“The other day when you were standing at the back of your car watching me, what were you hoping

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