Father by Clarissa Wild

Author:Clarissa Wild [Wild, Clarissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-04-22T04:00:00+00:00

20

We lie down in my bed, and I pull the blanket over us both. I wrap my arm around her and turn off the light. I asked her to stay tonight. Not because I’m weak, but because I think we both need each other’s comfort right now.

Her fingers gently play with the necklace cradled between her tits. It’s a cross … and the moment I touch her hand, she flinches.

“Sorry,” she mumbles.

“Don’t be. You keep touching that. I was just curious.”

“Oh … yeah, it’s special. To me, anyway.”

“How come?” I ask.

She blows out a short breath. “My mother gave it to me when I was young. Said that I could always find her there, tucked away between the silver.”

I smile and plant a kiss between her shoulder blades. “That’s a nice gesture.”

“Hmm.”

I stare at the sink where our clothes are drying off. She crawls closer to me, her warmth filling me with momentary happiness. Is it okay to feel this way? Am I allowed to let go of the past and enjoy what I have?

“Tell me what you’re thinking,” she asks.

“Nothing,” I say, smelling her hair to calm myself down.

“Don’t lie. You’re tense, and you won’t stop sighing.”

I sigh again, smiling. She can read me so well it’s almost scary.

“You’re worried about those men,” she fills in for me. “If they’ll keep coming after us.”

“I’m worried about how many more I have to kill to be safe.”

She swallows. “Those men you were after … they were my father’s men, weren’t they?”

I nod against her skin, pressing a kiss between her shoulder blades.

“Do you think he wants you dead?”

“He gave them a picture of my son just to make me mad. I think he means business,” I reply.

“But you don’t have to let him get to you.” She glances over her shoulder. “You could run.”

“I’ve already run too many times.”

“What then? Are you going to kill all of them?” she asks, turning around in my arms.

“If I have to.”

“What about this church? And Margaret?” She leans on her elbow. “Will you just abandon them?”

“I can always come back …”

“How do you know?”

“Because I came back before … back when I was still in a gang myself.”

She sighs and lies back down on her pillow, her eyes boring into mine. “Tell me more about your past.”

“You don’t want to know more, trust me.”

“Yes, I do. If we’re going to be … something … I have the right to know more.”

Something.

I wonder if that means what I think it means.

“Like I said, I wasn’t just a dealer. I was a murderer too. Whatever the gang asked, it was never too much for me. I did some shit I’m not proud of, and I’d rather forget it all.”

“And this gang … were they enemies of my dad’s?”

I nod.

She blows out another breath. “So this isn’t just about us.”

I don’t say a word. I don’t know what to tell her. And I think she already knows where this is going.

“You can’t do it.”

“He won’t leave us alone,” I say.

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