Hooked (The Hooked Romance Series Box Set) (An Alpha Billionaire Romance) by Adams Claire

Author:Adams, Claire [Adams, Claire]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-11-04T06:00:00+00:00

HOOKED #3

CHAPTER ONE

Days passed, and I hardly saw the sun. The October days were growing shorter, and I could feel the cold emanating from the lake through the glass of my windows. I placed my fingers on the cold and leaned into it, as if it was a fresh breath of air.

Since the destruction of my beautiful building, my mother had called several times wondering about me. About my dance studio. About how I was making it. But I hadn’t answered. My insides felt crumpled, hopeless. I watched my phone buzz and buzz and buzz each time until it shook itself from the table and onto the clattering wooden floor.

Mel called as well. I remembered the joy I had felt at her apartment, such a sense of family for the first time in my life. She had grown up with Drew; she was his aunt, although because of their parents’ age differences, they had grown up together. It was so insane to think about; that this woman I had known for two years had always had Drew in the back of her mind—as if he were waiting for me.

Mel’s messages were anxious, worried. She didn’t know what was going on, and she certainly didn’t know Drew had been the one to swoop the dance studio out from underneath us. It had been our only solace from the surrounding world, the only place we could actually dance—be ourselves—in the wake of all that had come before. I had failed as a dancer, and she had given up, gotten married, and had a baby. She had done so many, many decent things in her life. Why wasn’t she allowed a single pleasure?

“Molly? Molly? You need to call me back, okay. I don’t know where you disappeared to. I had such a wonderful time with you last week, but Drew’s telling me you won’t talk to him. I can’t understand it. Did we do something wrong? Please let me know if there’s anything I can do, Mol. I want you guys to work. You are the best girl that Drew’s ever brought home, and I mean that seriously.”

I rolled my eyes listening to the message. So even Mel knew about Drew’s womanizing? I sighed, tossing the phone to the couch, serious about not calling her back. Perhaps I could start over on my own, without strings attached to Drew. I reached toward my coat hanging on the coat rack. Boomer, to my left, meowed at me, confused about my strange off-kilter attitude the past few days. I had forgotten to feed him the day before, leaving him to jump on my head and rustle my hair in the morning.

I pushed my hands through my jacket, thinking about Mel and Drew once more. I was sure they hadn’t been talking this entire time; or had they? I chewed on the side of my mouth, considering. Perhaps Mel had known the entire time that Drew was in the city, that Drew was the one I’d been seeing.

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