Dirty Play (The Ferrari Family Book 1) by Hazel Parker

Author:Hazel Parker [Parker, Hazel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-17T23:00:00+00:00

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“Izzy? Are you OK?”

I’d managed to drop Ryan off at my mother’s house, say hello to her and my father, and make pleasant conversation long enough that it didn’t feel like I was just dumping him off by the curbside. It was already half-past six, and I knew I wasn’t going to get to Nick’s at seven like I’d hoped.

But I hadn’t sold myself off as relaxing well enough. I’d gotten all the way to my car before my mother had asked that question—and now, I understood why. It was the first time I’d gotten out of earshot since I’d dropped Ryan off.

“Ryan said he saw Daddy today,” I said. “I think he’s just referring to a game or song he played. But…”

Mom didn’t ask anything more. She just nodded. Malcolm had done many things to me, but he’d never come close to my parents, although I worried that was a function less of some weird ethical and moral code and more because he’d never been around them in a state of rage.

I got into my car, revved the engine, and drove out a little faster than normal, albeit under much more control than when I had left my office or the daycare center. I only had about twenty minutes worth of driving to get to Nick’s, and then I would feel much safer.

Nick’s house was about halfway between Sacramento and San Francisco, a little bit northeast of Oakland. I wondered how he commuted into the city given how limited parking was, but then again, as a star athlete, the typical rules probably didn’t really apply to Nick.

Like, for example, the idea that one could only find a small space to live in in the Bay Area.

In fact, when I pulled up to Nick’s property, I didn’t park in his driveway as I had to call him to get the gate code. He chuckled a bit, apologizing for forgetting that detail—as if it were just some small cosmetic thing that was easily overlooked—and let me in. I immediately felt, despite making pretty decent income at my job, that I was in a world that I did not belong.

But as soon as I parked my car and got out, I saw Nick emerging from the front of his house. He was dressed much more casually than before—he had on jeans, but he also had on a Fresno State hoodie and a baseball hat. It was kind of a sexy look, honestly; it masked his face just enough that it was like he was hiding in the shadows, and there was something so damn provoking about that.

“Come on inside,” he said. “Security’s usually good about making sure no one’s near here, but you can never be too careful.”

He let me walk by him. I opened the massive front door and walked into what could, if I was conservatively speaking, only be called a massive home. There were two staircases on either side of the atrium, leading to an upstairs that was adorned with multiple paintings along the way.

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