Safe and Sound (Twist of Fate, Book 2) by Lucy Lennox & Sloane Kennedy

Author:Lucy Lennox & Sloane Kennedy [Lennox, Lucy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: SKLL Books LLC
Published: 2017-09-30T18:30:00+00:00

Getting Ash settled in my place took less time than it had taken to have the discussion about him moving in.

It had turned out that I’d slept for almost twelve hours straight, so it had been bedtime when I’d woken up. Although I’d still been physically exhausted, I’d known that I wouldn’t be able to rest until I had Ash under my roof. So I’d accompanied him to the coffee shop to get his guitar and duffel bag, and then we’d grabbed a bite to eat at a pizzeria on the way home. I’d barely managed to refrain from saying anything when Ash had handed me some money to cover his half of the meal. Once we’d arrived back at my place, I’d called Bennett to let him know I was okay while Ash had gotten settled in his room. I’d also called my brother to let him know I’d be back at work the following day, but he’d told me if I so much as even answered a work-related email for the rest of the week, he’d flood my phone and email with so many Jar Jar Binks gifs and memes that the next installment of Star Wars would be in theaters before I managed to delete all that sacrilege off my phone. Admittedly, I’d been too exhausted to fight with him about taking the rest of the week off.

But just because I’d been exhausted hadn’t meant I’d slept any better over the week that followed.

Or in the three weeks after that.

Between my worry for Ash when he wasn’t at the apartment and the continued sleepless nights, I was still struggling to sharpen my mental acuity.

Seeing Ash every morning before he left for work and again when I went in to get my coffee usually helped ease some of the tension I was feeling. But today, that feeling was short-lived because the second I stepped off the elevator at work, all my anxiety came roaring back when I saw the man sitting in the lobby. If I could have avoided him, I would have, but he raised his head after the receptionist called out to me in greeting.

I let out an internal curse as I heard my stepfather call out my name. I pasted a polite smile on my mouth as he reached me.

“Keith,” I murmured. “Nice to see you.”

I’d disliked my stepfather, Keith Parrish, from the moment my mother had introduced him to Danny and me, and not simply because the man was the reason my parents’ marriage had imploded. No, I’d disliked him because he’d worked so hard to pretend he wasn’t the guy my mother had been cheating on my father with for several years. He’d also been intent on proving what a man’s man he was from day one. I’d been only seven at the time, but he’d insisted on playing catch with me on the very first day my mother had introduced him to us. Instead of easily throwing the baseball back and forth and trying to draw me into conversation, he’d lobbed it at me with growing intensity each time.

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