Toxic Obsession: A Dark College Romance (The Untouchable 8 Book 1) by Michaela Sawyer

Author:Michaela Sawyer [Sawyer, Michaela]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Michaela Sawyer
Published: 2023-08-31T16:00:00+00:00

twenty-six

JAYDEN

"What do you want to know?" Sadie muttered, not looking up from the straw she'd been swirling around in her drink for our whole conversation, and I couldn't help but wonder if she was lost in what I'd just told her or the memories of her past.

"I searched your name on the internet," I said, her gaze flashing up, meeting mine. "A hundred different articles about you and your family popped up." A flicker of pain flashed through her eyes, and I reached out, sliding my hand into hers, wishing I could take away the pain. Part of me wanted to let the conversation die and never bring it up again, but I needed to know her side of the story. "I didn't read them because I didn't want their side of the story. I wanted yours."

She visibly swallowed like the words she was about to say physically hurt her. "Honestly," she said, her voice low. "They may be able to tell you more than I can." I narrowed my eyes. "I think I blocked a lot of it out." She dropped the fry she'd been playing with into her plate and reached up, shoving a loose strand of hair out of her face. "And most of what I do remember is fuzzy." Fuzzy? Like someone told her what happened? "I was supposed to be asleep that night, but I had crawled out of my bedroom window and was sitting on the roof between Lucy's room and mine."

"Was Lucy your sister?"

She nodded. "I was on the phone with my neighbor, and I didn't want to wake up Kayla," her voice started to tremble. I assumed Kayla was also a sister. "Kayla and I shared a room." I wanted so badly to hold her and make the pain go away. "I heard a gunshot in Lucy's room. The loud noise startled me so bad I dropped my phone off the roof."

"Did you see your dad?"

"Everything is fuzzy after that, and it went down so fast," she whispered. "I remember laying flat on my stomach and looking into Lucy's room through her window, and I saw him with the gun, but I've blocked it all out. I don't remember how many shots I heard, but I jumped off the roof and ran next door. I called 9-1-1. When the police arrived, I was with my neighbor. By the time the police made it inside, they were all dead except my mom, who told the police my dad shot her before she passed out."

"So your mom was conscious when the police arrived?"

"Yeah." I sighed. "The next few months were a blur. The police questioned me over and over again. I was in and out of the hospital with my mom, and my dad kept calling, begging me to talk to him, but I couldn't. How could he do that? He would have killed me too."

"When did you get the chance to talk to your mom?"

"Shortly after her surgery." Sadie sighed. "It was so crazy because right after the surgery, she remembered everything.

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