Pretty Little Tease (Pretty Obsessions Book 1) by AJ Merlin

Author:AJ Merlin [Merlin, AJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-02-20T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

It’s not until Juniper texts me and reminds me she won’t be back until Monday afternoon, that I realize how alone I am. I remember she’d told me last night, before I’d gone to sleep, that she was leaving around two in the morning to get on her flight home, but I hadn’t even thought about it until now.

I need her, and her grandfather had the audacity to die and drag her home for a funeral. Well, then again… I hesitate, folding my arms as I stand in my room and just hover. Maybe it’s better she isn’t here. It’s impossible to not draw connections between the two women who looked a lot like my roommate. From their hair, to their eye shape, to their complexion and face shape… all of them had similarities to her.

So maybe it’s not safe, as long as Jack the Ripper of Juniper-lookalikes is running around. But if she’s not here, then I need another option. My nerves thrum and pulse just under my skin, and my heart seems to race in my chest as I recall the look on Professor Solomon’s face.

Maybe I’m going crazy. It’s a strong possibility, with the week I’ve had, and maybe I’m just throwing blame wherever it seems to fit, even without a reasonable excuse to do so. There’s every chance that he was just there, or that he really does live around here.

So why am I jumping to him being some gory, seasoned serial killer hiding out in St. Augustine, Florida? After all, what serial killer ends up here, when there have to be less conspicuous places to go? Like Canada. And would he really be a photography professor?

I’m being stupid.

But that interpretation doesn’t hit right, and I still can’t shake the way my professor looked at me, or his questions. As if it mattered if I knew her. If he’d killed her, would he have cared? If she were my friend, would my least favorite professor have some kind of regret for what he’d done?

Well, in the month that he’s known me, he hasn’t exactly shown any kind of fondness toward me, so I doubt it. Though, I can’t help flashing back to Oliver kissing me in the hallway, my professor’s eyes on mine. And it doesn’t help one bit.

Sitting down, I try to figure out what I’m going to do. I have nothing to do, for the most part. No homework, no stream, no laundry. I’d planned to just take it easy today and maybe call Oliver, but now I’m not so sure.

Now, all I want to do is stare at the table and run the past hour’s events through my head over and over again. Look for some kind of connection or explanation that I can use to chase away the fear and apprehension I feel.

That lasts all of twenty minutes, max, before I drag myself to the sofa and collapse onto it with a groan. My hand finds the remote automatically, and I

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