One Last Chance by Gates Amelia

Author:Gates, Amelia
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-10-03T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Her eyes sparkled in the dark. She was serious. I stared at her, unable to believe what I was hearing.

“Daisy think about what you’re saying. You want me to climb in your window and have sex in your bed twenty feet from your drunk dad who you think hates me more than he’s hated anything in his entire life. Which, I can’t say I blame him for. If he thinks, like almost everyone did, that I killed Hunter… I mean, seriously, does your door even lock?”

She nodded, bouncing a little bit on the well-worn bench seat. “It does! I installed a lock when he stopped busting in to check on me every night. He hasn’t done that in months. He still thinks I go to bed at eight and stay there all night. He passes out, then Mom passes out, and the whole house is quiet. As long as we’re quiet too, why shouldn’t we use my room?”

I shook my head. “You make no sense, you know that?”

A flash of hurt dulled the excitement in her eyes. Her brows furrowed. “What do you mean?”

“Really? It’s too risky to step out of the car right now and kiss me on that bridge over there, but you want me to climb in your window and spend the night in your bed? How does that make sense?”

“Because,” she said with a patience people usually reserved for small children. “Out here is public. Anybody could see us and tell dad. My room is private. It’s an environment I can control. We can turn the music up, drape some blankets over the door and connecting walls to dampen the sound—besides, Kash, winter’s coming. Do you really want to be naked in this truck in the middle of a freezing rainstorm or hail? We barely survived the hurricane.”

She looked so eager and sure of herself I couldn’t bring myself to tell her no. I still thought it was a shitty idea, though.

“Okay. I’ll think about it, but I want you to think about something, too.”

“Okay.” She straightened her shoulders, eyes at attention, but her fingers were twisting with excitement.

“I want you to consider why you would rather sneak around like a bad kid than stand up to your dad.”

She rolled her eyes. “That’s easy. Because he’s scary and still controls the vast majority of my life.”

“Does he? Why?”

She glared at me and I raised my hands. “All right, all right. I’ll back off. Just thought it might be something you’d want to look at.”

She shook her head. “Thinking hasn’t gotten me very far, Kash. I’m working on instinct right now, and my gut says that this is the safest way to get what we want right now. Maybe later—” she drifted for a moment, her expression darkening in a way I couldn’t really interpret, then shook her head. “—We’ll figure it out. Later.”

I held her hand and rolled her fingers under my thumb. “I still think it’s a bad idea, Daisy. We should look at

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