Reign Ruin: Complete Trilogy by Natalie Bennett

Author:Natalie Bennett [Bennett, Natalie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BB Books
Published: 2023-04-29T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWO

For a while, once the body had been buried and time went on as if that day never happened, I was happy. There were times I thought back to the night I came across something I shouldn’t have, but they weren’t enough to derail my life.

That came later, after the party that brought me face to face with Judas again. Although, I couldn’t deny that I’d been happier than before despite how it ended with me knocked to the ground like I’d gone round after round for a heavyweight title.

Years later and I still found myself unable to process how everything went so tragically wrong.

I did my best to avoid these thoughts, avoiding them like one would the plague. Nothing good ever came from reminiscing about a past that no longer existed. It’s what led me to more often than not take the lengthier route home after a long shift.

It didn’t matter how bad my feet were killing me from being on them the past eight hours to twelve hours, or how desperately my body craved food, sleep, and a hot shower.

There was something about a late-night drive that helped me deal with all the noise inside my head. I could never go too far away from home, though. Audrey and I shared our locations with one another and if she thought anything was the slightest bit amiss, she’d lose her proverbial shit. I found that out the hard way a few weeks ago.

Turning onto the runoff of our parking garage, I used one hand to reach over and dig my key card out of my purse. There was no way to get through the entry gate without having one of these bad boys. Sometimes it could be a pain in the ass, but it was one feature of the complex I wouldn’t ever get rid of.

It’d been a unanimous decision to find a spot with security once we got tired of bouncing from place to place and decided to settle somewhere more permanent. I refused to live anywhere anyone, and everyone could freely enter and exit at their discretion.

This small hoop was one of many you could make a person jump through before they set foot near your door. I didn’t know if it was pitiful to live this way after so long or wise.

Nonetheless, if someone was coming for me, I would be ready.

I went through all the motions and parked in my allotted spot which cost way too much money a month. Audrey’s Jeep was in its usual place right beside mine and already running. She’d probably be walking out the door as I was coming through it. Sure enough, after riding the elevator up to the fifth floor and entering our apartment, I saw she was sliding her work shoes on.

Wearing her scrub top with Elsa plastered on the front of it and her blonde hair pulled into a chic bun, she looked as if she were still eighteen instead of almost twenty-five.

“How was work, boo?” she called to me from where she was perched on the arm of the sofa.

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