My Monster by Einat Segal

Author:Einat Segal [Segal, Einat]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Einaty.com
Published: 2018-07-31T05:00:00+00:00

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I fall apart in Shawn's car, next to Shawn. He's all dressed and groomed, smelling like cologne. If I wasn't currently traumatized to an inch of my sanity, I would’ve felt satisfied that I ruined some girl's night with him.

Shawn says nothing, but he wears a scowl and clutches the steering wheel until his knuckles are bone-white.

We're outside my house sooner than I expected. I must’ve cried the whole way, and I still haven't composed myself. Shawn reaches over and hooks his arm around my shoulders, pulling me in.

I cry on his shoulder. I sob and tremble and sob some more. I can’t even understand what’s happening to me. Shawn plants his lips in my hair.

"We should go to the police," he finally says after a long time when my tears finally dry up. "That fucking bastard . . ."

"He didn't do this." Why am I defending him?

"Fee, did you see your face?"

I pull away, hiccupping and wiping away my tears. "It's not as bad as it looks."

He hands me a tissue that he pulls from a box by the gearstick. "Your lip is bleeding."

I snatch the tissue and dab my lips. "I'm fine. This is just . . . lesson learned."

"I've never seen you cry before, and that wasn’t normal crying . . ."

I crumple up the tissue. "Thank you for coming to get me."

"Fee," he begins, but then something in my face probably convinces him that he'd get nothing out of me. He backs down, frowning. "Get some rest," he says softly.

I nod and get out of the car. I begin limping toward our front door when I realize that I don't have a key.

I turn around. Shawn's still waiting there. I make my way to Esmeralda's house. The lights are all off, and Tina's car isn't there. I knock anyway. No one answers.

I try calling Esmeralda, but reach voicemail. Just as I hang up my phone, it rings again. Shawn’s calling me.

"Need a place to crash?" he asks.

"Can you sneak me into your house without anyone seeing?"

"Are you talking to Shawn Henderson or are you talking to Shawn Henderson?"

Oh, there’s the douchebag talk again. “I don't know, am I?"

"Just shut up and come here.”

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