Never Did Say by Stunich C. M

Author:Stunich, C. M. [Stunich, C. M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781938623905
Amazon: B011YKLWTM
Goodreads: 25933521
Publisher: Sarian Royal
Published: 2015-07-17T07:00:00+00:00

23

Ty holds a cigarette in bejeweled fingers, bracelets clinking as he brings it to his lips for a drag. His left hand holds his cell and his booted foot taps out a rhythm of discontent on the porch. I stand to his left, just in front of the screen door, keeping an eye out for eavesdroppers.

“Sorry about the smoke,” he says, gazing down at the burning cherry with a frown plastered across his perfect lips. I shake my head and pull Ty's coat closer around me. It smells like him, like bad boys and hearts that were once broken but are now healed. Ty's scent. It comforts me now just as it did at the clinic all those many months ago.

“With all of this stress, I'm surprised you even lasted this long.” He looks over at me with a ghostly smile hovering above his mouth, like he wishes he could be happy but can't. It makes me sad. And frustrated. And so mad that I feel like I could march upstairs to my mom's old bedroom, take the shotgun that's in her closet, and go take care of Hannah forever.

Hannah.

My mouth twists down in a scowl. That fucking pedophile. Here. In my town. It makes me sick to my stomach to even think about it. As far as I'm concerned, she raped Ty. It's at least partially her fault that he had to go through all of that shit. She is at fault for the whole Marin Rice thing. Her. I fucking hate her so much I can barely breathe.

“Only one, I swear,” Ty says lifting up both palms in a sign of surrender. He looks over at me, but there's something missing in his gaze, a vacancy that I can't and won't put up with.

“Why is she here, Ty?” I ask, but he's already shaking his head.

“I don't know,” he admits, tapping some ash into the glass tray next to him. He's shaking a little bit, and I'm not sure if it's the cold or not. Sure, his arms are bare, both sleeves of tattoos gleaming in the stark winter air, but is the icy wind enough to cause goose bumps like that? “Obviously, she's fucked in the head, showing up at our house and all that.”

He breathes out a big breath, the warmth clouding in the air like fog.

“She's stalking you then,” I say, but Ty is already gazing out across the front yard, towards the rarely traveled road that passes in front of the property, at the trail on the other side that leads to the playground where we made love once.

“Maybe.”

“No, not maybe,” I say, moving over to stand in front of him, breaking his endless stare. “She is stalking you. There's no way her being in town is just a coincidence.”

I reach down and grab Ty's cell, gazing at the message and wondering how the fuck she got his number in the first place. I know he never gave it to her, so how? By stalking, that's how.

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