Malicious Pacts: A High School Bully Romance: A Crestview Academy Series Prequel (The Crestview Academy) by Katerina Raven

Author:Katerina Raven [Raven, Katerina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Valkyrie Publishing LLC
Published: 2022-04-07T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

It had been a few days since I arrived, and everyone gave me my space. I stayed in my room for the most part but came out occasionally. Rick gave me a new phone when he found out mine was destroyed. I was super happy about that because I wasn’t completely cut off from my old friends anymore.

I tried to keep tally on how much money I owed him. If I had it once the life insurance came in after paying everything off, I wanted to pay him back whatever I could. I felt terrible about him spending money on me.

After a few days spent relatively alone, I started to feel a bit better. I absolutely needed the adjustment period. I knew I wouldn’t do well jumping right into family movie or game nights, big dinners, and whatever else real families did together. Whatever this family did together. The nightmares were worse, which made the awkwardness around them worse, but the anxiety medication I’d been prescribed helped in those moments when I woke up panicking.

Truth was, I had no idea how any family dynamic worked. I never really had one. It was just dad and me, and we had movie nights whenever he wasn’t working or whenever I didn’t have some class or tournament going on. It wasn’t very often. A couple times a month.

Past that, Dad would talk to me when he got home from work. Sometimes I’d have dinner ready for him when he got in, and sometimes I’d just grab a sandwich or something. I’d work a little on whatever project car he had going on, and he’d work on it when he had time, too. But as busy as we both were, he always gave me hugs before bed and told me he loved me more than anything.

He was a good man. A good dad. But that was the only experience I had with families.

This was all new, and I needed to get used to even being in this big ass house, let alone them and the weird Leave it to Beaver thing they had going on.

Okay, maybe that was dramatic. It wasn’t that weird. Just weird to me.

Last night, Rick came in to check on me and extend an invitation I’d been expecting but part dreading. “I was wondering if you’d want to go to lunch with me tomorrow,” he’d said with a cautious, hopeful expression. “I know things are off to a bit of a patchy start with your sister, so this would just be us. You and me. I don’t want to push you too far too fast, and I figured less people would be better. I think it would be a good way for us to get to know each other in a neutral setting.”

I wasn’t entirely sure what to say. I wanted to get to know him, but I was nervous. What if he wasn’t who he seemed? What if I wasn’t anything like he’d hoped? It was a lot of stress, and it made my anxiety spike just thinking about it.

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