Little Liar: A Dark Taboo Romance (The Web of Silence Duet Book 2) by Leigh Rivers

Author:Leigh Rivers [Rivers, Leigh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2024-09-29T00:00:00+00:00

16

OLIVIA

Malachi’s arms are tight around my waist while I stare into the mirror and apply mascara to my lashes. The side of his face is pressed to my back while I sit between his parted legs. I keep thinking he’s fallen asleep, but then he tightens around me some more and groans with moodiness.

His fingers play with the waistband of the sleep shorts I threw on after the shower because apparently sitting in a towel makes him feral. I slap his hand away when he tries to slide it between my legs. He lifts his head to glare at me in the mirror from over my shoulder.

“Learn to be told no.”

He sighs and buries his head into my back again. “You don’t love me.”

Laughing, I try to move forward, but his hold gets tighter. I huff. “Can you let me go so I can get my hairbrush?”

He shakes his head, pulling me into his body more. “Stay.”

“You’re so clingy,” I reply with a laugh, checking the time on my phone. “Shit, I’m late. Mom’s already going to flip about me being off all last week. Do you want her to hunt us down and arrest you for kidnapping?”

The silence is deafening. He’s thinking about the possibility of her intruding on us, popping our little bubble of happiness. If she appeared, he would probably be arrested for murdering her. Even the thought makes me shiver because it’s not like he isn’t capable. Malachi may revolve his entire life around me, but he’s violent and unpredictable.

I think he’d kill someone for me. I mean, he nearly murdered our father because he caught us at the top of the stairs. What would he do to Mom?

Maybe I should set up a meeting for us to all sit down and talk. Get it over with—rip the Band-Aid off and accept the backlash that will definitely come our way. They already know we’re together, so what’s the worst that could happen? They don’t accept us? We’re adults now.

Besides, I could use their help right now.

They know him—they’ll have an idea of how to help with the way he is. They adopted him knowing about his troubles and his issues, even helped him get his diagnosis—they’ll be able to give me directions on how to help him not spiral and lose himself.

I always knew he struggled, but this last week since coming back to him… Sometimes he’s here but he’s not. It’s getting worse, and I don’t know what to do. I try to make sure he takes his meds, and he’s refused to go to his therapy appointments this week because being separated from me is the worst thing to possibly happen to him, so he dismisses everything else to be close to me.

It’s the main reason I want to go back to work—I need Malachi to focus on himself.

He’s going to fall off the cliff, and I’m not strong enough to catch him.

He’s going to hurt someone—I can feel it. Unless he already has. He has an alarming number of weapons in one of the spare rooms.

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