Sweet Obsession: A Dark New Adult Romance (Ruthless Games Book 1) by Callie Rose

Author:Callie Rose [Rose, Callie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-03-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

I don’t see Ryland again as I return to the store and re-buy all of my ruined groceries.

In fact, I don’t see him or either of the other two men for the next several days.

The usual routines of my daily life continue as normal. I go to the bar every night—though I don’t drag any random men out back with me—and do another temp job on Thursday. Every time I leave the house, I glance around furtively, but I honestly can’t tell if anyone is watching me or not.

If they are, they’re back to being subtle about it, hiding out of sight and not just popping up in front of me like ghosts in a damn haunted house.

I’m not stupid or naïve enough to think they’re actually gone, though. Whatever that strange interaction I had with Ryland was, I doubt it was enough to convince him or any of them to disappear from my life.

But something feels like it’s shifted anyway.

Marcus would barely look at me when they dropped me off at my apartment the night he beat the hell out of Greg, and Ryland made it clear as fucking day that he’s opposed to this entire thing. So maybe he did convince his friend to, if not give up this obsession entirely, at least back off. And Theo? I don’t know. Maybe the startling chemistry that flashed between us when I kissed him scared him as much as it terrified me.

My life feels strangely barren without their dominating, overwhelming presence in it, and I remind myself frequently that this is what “normal” feels like. That I just need to get used to it again, and once I do, it’ll feel like it’s supposed to. Like it’s right.

Of course, even if I don’t see them during the day, I haven’t really escaped them. They still barge into my dreams every night, messing with my head and my heart.

On the sixth morning of this strange new normal, I lie in bed and stare up at the ceiling. The sudden quiet and calm in my life has given me a lot of time to think, and something Marcus said the night I went over to his house keeps rising up to the top of my mind.

I think it’s your brother.

I can still remember the utter confidence in his voice, and something about it plucks a string in my heart, strumming the same note over and over.

Hope.

He seemed so certain that the little boy in the faded picture is really my brother. And even though it’s entirely possible he was just trying to get laid again or tell me what I wanted to hear, I don’t quite believe that.

Marcus Constantine doesn’t seem like the kind of man who tells anybody anything just because they want to hear it.

My search for my brother has always been a long shot. I have a single photograph, no name, and no real memories of my own. Just some half-remembered, fuzzy images in my head and a story a girl from foster care told me.

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