For 100 Nights by Lara Adrian

Author:Lara Adrian [Adrian, Lara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: billionaire romance series, women's fiction, contemporary romance saga, romantic suspense, erotic romance trilogy, wealthy international dominant alpha male hero, possessive billionaire with damaged past
Publisher: Lara Adrian, LLC
Published: 2017-09-09T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

I lunge for the door, but Rodney blocks me. The rangy teenager who’d drifted in and out of my past during the horror of my mother’s marriage to his father has since put on pounds and muscle. I try to shove my way past him, but I can neither get around him nor through him.

Fear streaks into my marrow. A scream lodges in my throat and it’s all I can do to stifle it. I can’t let it loose. Not when the last thing I want to do is draw attention to us.

Not when Nick is sitting in the restaurant outside.

Rodney knows this. I can see that confidence glittering in his close-set, dark eyes.

“You changed your phone number.” He tauntingly wags his finger at me. “Now, is that any kinda way to treat your long-lost brother?”

He was never my brother, not by any stretch of the imagination. Two years older than me, kicked out of his father’s house long before my mom and I moved in, Rodney was habitually wasted and chronically unemployed. A loser I hardly knew, let alone considered family.

Now, I see an opportunist in front of me. A dangerous one.

“Here I thought we were just gettin’ back on friendly terms. What was I supposed to think when all of a sudden you just cut me off like that?”

I back up as he advances on me. “W-what are you doing here?”

“I always did wanna come to New York. Figured it was as good a time as any to make the trip. Check in on you and see how well you’re livin’.” He clicks his tongue. “Livin’ pretty fuckin’ good, baby girl. I’m impressed.”

“How did you find me? How did you know where I was today?”

He chuckles. “I’ve been tailing you for days, you dumb bitch. Waited for you outside your boyfriend’s fancy-ass place on Park Ave, then had a taxi follow you in your chauffeured limo to the shithole building just up the street from here. Since you seem to eat at this place on a regular basis, I figured it’d be my best shot at catching you. And whattaya know, here you are, caught.”

I wince inwardly at my stupidity that led him straight to me. I never imagined he’d come all this way. I’m afraid to guess what it will take for him to go now that he’s here. Now that he’s seen firsthand what my life is currently like with Nick.

He takes another step toward me. I take another retreating step, only to be stopped by the sink mounted to the wall at my back.

Even though I’m terrified, I hike up my chin and muster all the defiance I can into my voice. “Leave us alone, Rodney. My mom and me both. If you or any of the fucking lowlifes I’m sure you hang with even think of laying another finger on her, I swear to God I’ll—”

His thin chuckle interrupts my threat. “Relax. I’m not interested in that old cunt anymore. I just needed her so I could get your attention.

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