Neighbors: A Dark Romance (Soulmates Series Book 7) by Hazel Kelly

Author:Hazel Kelly [Kelly, Hazel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2017-10-12T18:30:00+00:00

T W E N T Y F I V E

- Lily -

My high lasted for days, as if hearing Sebastian say he still loved me was all I needed to snap out of the trance I’d been in for years.

I even started applying for jobs, jobs with unsightly uniforms and lousy benefits. Jobs for normal people. Normal, loved people.

Admittedly, I had my doubts about whether his words could be true after what I’d put him through. But I never let my doubts fester for too long because I knew I needed the strength that his love—however ill-informed it was—had given me.

Yes, deep down, I still felt that the sins of my past made me undeserving of his affection, but I had hope again for the first time in years, and I’d be damned if I wasn’t going to cling to it.

It was a bit of a blow when I found out the call center where I used to work didn’t have any vacancies, since I was in a hurry to become the woman I saw reflected in Sebastian’s eyes, but I was determined not to lose heart.

After all, I was smart, driven, and now I was also loved…by the one person who didn’t owe me a second chance, no less.

Besides, why couldn’t I transform my life? I’d done it before. I wasn’t born to be an escort. The tricks of that trade didn’t come easily to me. They had to be learned. So who was to say I couldn’t learn new tricks…like learning how to live off a menial paycheck again. Hell, I’d done it once, and I could see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Now was my chance.

I wanted to love Sebastian back, wanted to tell him I loved him back. But I couldn’t do that in good conscience until I could say it from a place I was proud of, a place where I could feel good about hearing it back.

I pushed the door open with my hip and laid my textbooks on the table in the entryway. When I rounded the corner, Vivian was curled up on the couch in the same place she’d been all week across from a half-eaten box of Rainbow Chip cookies and a glass of milk.

“Hey.” I studied the red rims around her eyes. “How are you?”

“Better,” she said unconvincingly. “How was your day?”

“Good. I got an A on the paper I wrote about Attachment Theory.”

“Nice.”

“And I dropped my résumé off at two more places.”

“I started looking today, too,” she said. “Online.”

My chest loosened with my smile. “That’s great, Viv.”

“I forgot how unglamorous regular jobs were.”

“I’m prepared to trade glamour for safety at this point.”

She nodded. “I know it’s the right thing to do. I was going to age out eventually anyway, but—”

“What?”

“Everything I looked at requires basic computer skills.”

I raised my eyebrows.

“Which is at least a few levels above what I have.” She leaned forward, grabbed two cookies, and handed me one.

I eyed the top, planning out which colored chip would be my first victim.

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