Dirty Little Secret: A Dark Enemies to Lovers College Romance (Ruthless Rivals Book 2) by Emery Saint

Author:Emery Saint [Saint, Emery]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-09-29T16:00:00+00:00

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He pulled away from the house without a word as I clicked the seatbelt around me.

The radio was off, just the sounds of the road surrounded us as he turned onto the main road and drove towards the outskirts of town.

Finally, he spoke.

“So, what the hell was that all about?”

For some reason, these were the words that broke down the emotional dam. I dissolved into heaving, wracking sobs. I saw myself in the reflection of his windshield sobbing in his passenger seat. I felt his eyes flickering toward me in awkward discomfort as he drove down the road. And, honestly? I was mortified at the flagrant display of emotions without a single word spoken on my part. I felt like an idiot. I felt helpless, as if I were adrift in an endless sea attempting to devour me whole. And, despite the comfort of my mother’s friends telling me that she’d be just fine, I couldn’t help but wonder if something might happen.

I couldn’t help but wonder if I’d lose my mother and my father within months of each other.

However embarrassed I might have been, though, the tears didn’t stop. The terrible choking sounds as I tried to sync up my tears with my breathing didn’t cease to exist merely because I was in a car and being driven away from the pressure point that had become my entire life. The train had started, and I was helpless to stop it until my tear ducts dried up. Until my heart stopped hurting and being so damn angry at the situation that my father had put me in.

So, I rode it out until I dried my tears with the back of my hand.

The sound of my mother’s favorite phrase ringing in my ears only made the crying worse, though. It took me a while to calm myself down, and at one point I was pretty sure Dillon rolled my window down in order for me to get some fresh air. I hated putting all of this into his lap. I didn’t want to burden him with my problems when I knew he had issues of his own. My chest slowed down its hiccupping sobs and my voice softly returned.

My hands went from covering my face to wiping away my tears, and I sucked snot back in the hopes that it hadn’t been dripping down my face in front of the man that had started starring in my dreams at night. I cried for Mom, and Dad. I cried for Bubby, and the life I was living. I cried for the selfishness I had showed my best friend while she was struggling in the hospital, and I even cried for the anger I knew I’d never be able to let go toward Ashleigh and her mother.

All of it came pouring out until there was no more left. And after I finally drew in one solid, unbroken breath, I felt something warm against my knee.

And when I looked down, I saw that Dillon had placed his hand there.

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