Operation Resolution by Sky Corgan

Author:Sky Corgan [Corgan, Sky]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-12-02T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

MATT

Another night spent tossing and turning. I’d only known Bella for a couple of days, and I had hardly gotten any sleep during any of them.

When I closed my eyes, I could see her face looking at me in that dim alley. I was pretty sure I could still taste her. I didn’t want to be able to taste her. I didn’t want that to have happened at all. I was trying to have better control over myself than that.

“Shit. Shit!”

I had told Bella last night that she was under my skin. The bitch of it was that I wasn’t messing with her. She believed I was—was doing a truly terrible job of hiding it—but I wasn’t. I was telling her the truth about wanting to get to know her. But wanting to get to know her the way I did came from wanting her, and I didn’t know how to want somebody without taking them to bed. I wanted to fuck her and for the two of us not to leave my bed for a minimum of a week. I wanted her, and being a good boy was getting pretty damn hard.

“Shit.”

Shit was just about all I had said this Sunday morning, but this was the first one that didn’t come from my feelings about Bella. The phone sitting on my table next to my third cup of coffee was ringing, and like an idiot, I’d looked at it with the hope that it would be Bella calling. She had me feeling like a teenager, for Christ’s sake.

Of course, it wasn’t her, just like I knew it wouldn’t be. It was my mom, the last person on God’s green Earth I felt like talking to at the moment. There was always the option of not answering, but Mom wasn’t the type to give up easily. She wouldn’t just call once. She would call repeatedly until I picked up the phone, and when I did, she would make me feel like a prick for not answering sooner.

My mom hadn’t had a job in her life, not one, so she had made getting what she wanted a full-time thing. She was relentless, and I knew enough not to try to resist that fact.

I sighed heavily, grimaced, and put the phone up to my ear. “Hey, Mom.”

“Hey yourself,” she snapped, her voice raw and ragged, never a good sign. “What took you so long, for God’s sake?”

“I was in the other room working on some stuff.”

“Working on ‘stuff’? You can’t even try to make it sound important, can you? Jesus, Matt, what’s the matter with you?”

“Nothing, Mom. Sorry. What can I do for you?”

“Well, you don’t have to make it sound like it’s a business call. Are you trying to make me feel bad? Do you just want me to feel unwanted by you?”

“Of course, I don’t. Not at all. I’m just tired, okay? I haven’t been sleeping. What’s up, Mom? You sound upset.”

“Well, of course, I’m upset. You would be

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