In The Roof (Little Black Book Book 1) by Nico Sorrell & Ivy Graves

Author:Nico Sorrell & Ivy Graves [Sorrell, Nico & Graves, Ivy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-05-31T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

The next morning, Odette double-checks that everything is in place as she strains to listen upstairs. It’s so weird; she’d never noticed anything strange from up there. Never a shuffle nor a step; nothing bumped, nothing dropped. She can’t recall anything significant having ever caught her attention. Maybe she had put any unusual noises down to living in a creaky, old house, one that she subconsciously expected to hear groans and knocks from anyway.

Regardless, there is no doubt in her mind now that he’s been coming and going regularly for a long time. He’d never leave that booze behind for a start, and the numerous waxy stubs attest to many a pre-dawn morning reading his book by candlelight.

She tiptoes up the stairs and pauses, sure that the attic is now empty. She plants a couple of tiny, hidden security cameras around the loft space, making sure that they are obscured enough from view so that they won’t be noticed.

Her life goes on as normal. She can play the game too, asswipe. Stupid cunt thinks he’s all over this shit; well, he’ll never know that she’s onto him. Then Bam 180! He won’t even see her coming.

Two days later, Odette sits in the lunchroom at work. She stares intently at her mobile phone screen. Absentmindedly tossing a baby spinach, feta, and couscous salad around on her fork, she strains to see the pixelated image. Nate from admin walks over to the coffee machine and says hi, but she doesn't hear him.

She is focused on Jethro sitting at the edge of the hospital bed, boots off, and resting one foot on the lid of the old trunk. Sunlight blazes through the window, overexposing the scene and obscuring some of the details, but she can see enough to know that he is sipping from a mug and reading a book. He always did like to read; old-school dystopian novels were his favourite. Space operas and fantasy, too. For such an overbearing, malicious bastard, he sure managed to keep up with complicated plot lines.

She stabs at a cocktail tomato, popping it into her mouth. She chews, its tangy juice exploding between her teeth. She can’t take her eyes off him. Off the man in her roof. She’s transfixed by every one of his small movements.

He looks even better now than he did when she was sharing his bed. He looks fitter, hotter somehow. As a shadow passes by the window, he comes into clear focus. She notices that his hair is longer, the dark curls touching below his collar, and he’s let his stubble grow to a solid five o'clock shadow with just a hint of a goatee. He’s aged a little, but it suits him.

As he concentrates on his book, he scowls and taps his chin, his bottom lip pouting slightly. An unconscious yet familiar trait that she once thought was adorable. A slight feeling of nostalgia begins to worm its betrayal through her heart, reminding her of how she thought he was attractive in the beginning.

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