Rabbit Hole: An MM Dark Romance Novel (Dark Trails Book 2) by Em Jae Black

Author:Em Jae Black [Black, Em Jae]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2025-01-30T00:00:00+00:00

As I drive home, my elation at how well that went is all too quickly replaced by panic as I realize: Now I have to confess what I did to Jack.

Probably better to break the news to him a little bit at a time. Ease him into it.

29

ADAIR

I’ve been wrong this whole time.

I thought I had a good handle on the spectrum of Jack’s pissy moods, from slightly grumpy to snappishly sarcastic to seriously surly. I’ve felt my mouth go dry and dread knot itself up in my guts at the sight of his eyes blazing, or his mouth twisted up into a sinister simulacrum of a smile. I thought I’d been learning to read all those cues to get a sense of how angry he was, or what type of angry he was.

It’s not until this moment in his living room, staring at him and suddenly feeling as if I’m in a vacuum with nothing in it but my fuck-up and his eyes burning through me, that I realize: I’ve actually never seen Jack really furious.

“You. Did. What?” His posture suggests violence. With fists clenched, shoulders squared and rolled forward, he looms over me with a stare that feels hot enough to vaporize me.

Too bad I’m not going to get that lucky. Even that first day when he caught me on that picnic table wasn’t like this. That was indignant, affronted, pissed-off. That was a breeze.

This is a fucking tornado.

Fuck me. I’ve never seen rage that doesn’t come over his face so much as transform it into something — someone — I don’t recognize.

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry!” I take a couple of steps away from him. I raise my hands as if they — as if anything — could deflect or hold back the wave of Jack’s rage about to crash over me. “I just thought — I thought…”

“You thought what? What could have possibly gone through your dipshit empty head to make you think for a single fucking second that anything good would come out of this stupid stunt?”

“I’m sorry.” I hate the way my voice sounds, shrill and close to breaking.

“You fucking pathetic brat,” he snarls. I’m mortified to feel my eyes filling with tears. It’s nothing he hasn’t said to me before, but it hits different right now. Why, why the hell didn’t I think to hold off on this stupid stunt until I was sure I had enough money and a place to go if I had to move out in a hurry?

I am a fucking pathetic brat. I swallow down the lump in my throat as I fight to get my words out. I’m hoping it’ll sting a tiny bit less if I see myself out before Jack throws me out.

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry. I overstepped. That was a mistake.” My words are shaky. “I’ll leave. I’ll get out of your hair — figure something out.”

“The hell you will,” he snaps. “I wouldn’t trust you to be responsible for a fucking houseplant.”

“I can take care of myself,” I mumble.

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