Obsessed- The Complete Addiction Duet by Vivian Wood

Author:Vivian Wood
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2019-12-02T05:00:00+00:00

Obsession

1

Sean

Sean shifted on the hard metal bench. He rested his head in his hands and ignored the pinch that still lingered from the handcuffs. With a sigh, he raised his head and tugged at the uncomfortable tie that felt more like a noose.

Wearing a suit in a jail cell seemed like a joke. He’d never wondered how the inmates featured on television switched from street clothes to ill-fitting suits, but now he knew. Lawyers. They could make anything happen.

He’d been blackout drunk during the entire thing. Well, mostly. He remembered little glimpses of the arrest, sparks of light and recognition. But he couldn’t trust himself or his head. How much of it had really happened?

The reports his lawyer had gone over with him hadn’t mentioned her, but he knew she’d been there. Harper had appeared like a saving grace, but it had been too late. That had been two weeks ago, and the scent of shame still clung to him tightly.

He remembered being drunk, or getting there at least. It had been all shiny, fuzzy and warm, a safe cocoon that had felt like home. He vaguely remembered the police showing up, but not the finer details. Sean knew he should have felt some kind of fear when they’d appeared, but the whiskey had numbed it all.

It hadn’t been until Harper showed up, that look of horror on her face, that he’d started to come out of the stupor. It had shot him clean through, straight to his heart. He’d tried to force out the right words, to apologize, but he couldn’t be sure he’d managed to say anything at all. And what does she think of you now?

Two weeks. It had been two weeks, and every waking minute since then all he could think about was how sorry he was. When Connor showed up, it had been all business. Sean sure as hell didn’t want to bring her up, and when Connor lightly broached the subject, Sean shut down. It was obvious Connor didn’t want to be there, was embarrassed of his mess of a family and was simply going through the motions. And who could blame him? Their family was wholly fucked up. If one of them were to get out, of course it would be Connor.

He stood up when he heard the boots of the correction officer down the short hall. Even though the suit was his, it felt wrong. It had been expertly tailored, but something had happened in the past fortnight that made Sean feel like his body wasn’t his. He felt like a phony.

“Cavanaugh, you’re up,” the officer said gruffly. Every time the bars of the cell opened with a loud groan, it sounded like a macabre announcement to the world.

His lawyer waited just outside the steel doors. She was one of the best in Los Angeles, but even though she was being paid a princely sum she always shifted restlessly like she was doing Sean a favor. Her name was something exotic, stuffed with sounds that were foreign in Sean’s mouth.

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