Fighting for Everything by Laura Kaye

Author:Laura Kaye [Kaye, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Laura Kaye

Chapter Fourteen

Kristina stepped up to Noah’s apartment door full of determination. Part of which had been fueled by Kate, who’d been sending her encouraging texts all morning. Things like,

Stop waiting for Prince Charming. Go find him. The poor idiot may be stuck up in a tree or something.

COURAGE: Do one brave thing today…then run like hell.

Just chuck it in the fuck it bucket and move on!

Stay stroganoff. Which she quickly followed up with, Bahahaha! Best autocorrect ever!

Kristina knocked on the door. After about a minute, she did it again. Glancing out at the parking lot, she reconfirmed that Noah’s car was here. She waited another minute or two, and knocked a third time, this time with her fist instead of her knuckles.

She pulled out her cell and texted him, I’m not leaving until you open your door.

Twin reactions coursed through her—irritation at his continued avoidance, and worry that maybe there was a reason he wasn’t answering.

She texted again, I’m using my key to come in.

At that, she dropped her phone in her purse and dug out her keys, which included the one he gave her last weekend. She slid the key in the lock and opened the door.

Inside, everything was quiet and dim, all the slats on the blinds pulled shut. “Noah?”

She dropped her purse on the coffee table and passed through the big open living area to the hall that led toward his bedroom, the bathroom, and the office. Something crunched underfoot.

Frowning, Kristina reached into the bathroom and flicked on the light switch. The bathroom mirror was shattered in a giant spider web of cracks that radiated out from a single, central break.

Kristina rushed toward the bedroom and pushed through the mostly closed bedroom door.

Noah was sprawled on his stomach wearing only a pair of black boxers, most of the sheets, blankets, and pillows knocked to the ground. Blood stains streaked across the top of the sheets. Kristina’s stomach fell to the floor and she was on the bed in an instant, grasping his shoulder as gently as she could in her growing panic. “Noah.” She shook him.

He came awake on a holler and flipped over, pinning her to the mattress with his forearm high across her chest. The movement was so fast and so unexpected that it’d happened before she fully realized what he was doing.

She should’ve known better than to scare him awake like that. “Noah, it’s Kristina!”

“Kris?” He flew back off of her onto his knees and kept on going, stumbling off the edge of the bed and backing into the chest of drawers beyond it. “What? What are…” He shook his head, then dropped it into his hand on a groan.

“I’m sorry I scared you,” she said, her heart racing in her chest. “You weren’t answering your door and then I saw the broken glass and the blood.” And now that she was regaining her wits about her, she noticed something else. A sickly sour smell. Sitting up, she saw a plastic trash can pulled to the side of the bed, something watery sitting in the bottom of it.

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