His Sinner: A Masked Stalker Romance (Saint and Sinner Duet Book 2) by Harmony West

Author:Harmony West [West, Harmony]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Westword Press
Published: 2024-03-29T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

BRIAR

A hard knock on my front door makes me flinch and sends Cookie running to hide.

Through the peephole, a scowling blonde in a ponytail is waiting on my porch. A black BMW in my driveway.

My heart stops.

The blonde in the BMW who’s been following me. She isn’t lurking in the shadows anymore—she’s showing up at my front door in broad daylight.

She isn’t wearing a uniform, but don’t private investigators opt for casual clothes to blend in?

I could ignore her. I should ignore her. But I want to end this shit.

Impossibly, her scowl deepens when I yank the door open. “Can I help you?”

“I’m sure you can.” Her husky voice is vaguely familiar.

She strides for the open door before I jump out and slam it shut behind me. “You’re not coming into my house.”

Her eyes narrow. “Have something to hide?”

“No, I just have a rule about not inviting crazy stalkers to waltz through my front door. You’ll have to break in like the rest of them.”

Her lips thin, but she doesn’t deny the accusation. “What aren’t you telling the police about the night my brother died?”

The pieces click into place. April.

This is Austin’s sister. The woman on the phone who delivered the news about Austin’s death. Who was obviously suspicious of me when I offered to return her brother’s watch.

My heart hammers harder, panic mixing with the relief. April is the one who’s been stalking me. Ever since that phone call, she’s been following me, trying to find proof that her brother’s overdose wasn’t accidental and I’m the one responsible. She followed me to campus, to Nicholson Manor, and now she’s located my address.

I expected that Saint and I would spend the next weeks or even months tracking her down. Now she’s standing on my front porch, willingly revealing her identity to me.

“I don’t know anything I haven’t told the police,” I lie. “Austin and I met up for tacos that night, we walked back to my house, we kissed, and he left. That’s it. I didn’t even know he used drugs.”

“He didn’t,” April snaps. “He’d been clean for months. Then he spends one night with you, and suddenly he dies of an overdose? Are you trying to tell me that’s some sort of coincidence?”

I clench my teeth at the implication. I’m sure Austin led his sister to believe he was clean, even if that was far from the truth. Regardless, I’m not to blame for his death, and I’m sick of being accused of shit I didn’t do. “Look, I’m sorry for your loss. But I didn’t have anything to do with your brother turning up dead.”

She shakes her head in disgust, ponytail swaying. “I should’ve known you were shady when you brought up his watch. Who gives a shit about a watch when someone is dead?”

“Your brother is the one who was shady. I’m telling you I didn’t do anything or give anything to him.”

“I don’t believe you.”

She can join the club with Officer Smith.

“Believe what you want. But that’s the truth.

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