Versions (The Blacklist Series Book 1) by Mitcham Megan

Author:Mitcham, Megan [Mitcham, Megan]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Megan Mitcham
Published: 2014-11-30T16:00:00+00:00

8

Rin zipped through a shower, spending most of her time scrubbing the soles of her feet. She dressed in shorts and a billowy top before drying her hair, which never happened. But she’d rather join the guy in the morgue than have Nate even try to put his hands on her. It hadn’t been him in that horrifying place. Yet, he’d started this whole train rolling down a track she didn’t favor one little bit.

She slapped on make-up for something to do while she waited. Was this all worth it to get her mother back or was she stupid for even entertaining the idea that the woman still existed beyond some cooked-up bones? Rin tossed the hair dryer under the cabinet and smiled at the crash it made.

The thought of food bubbled her stomach. So, she stomped to the living room, flopped onto the sofa, and grabbed the Vogue from the coffee table. After twenty minutes of staring at the cover, a key sounded in the lock.

“Hey, babe.” Nate dragged his wide-load frame through the door as though he’d spent the day coaching an NFL training camp. The white salt of long-dried sweat rings stained his high school logo emblazoned T-shirt. His gym bag, which held who knew what, slumped his shoulders to one side.

Rin unfurled her legs from beneath her, sat straight, and gathered her courage. “Nope. Don’t babe me. Not ever again.”

Nate drew to an easy halt inside the door. He let the bag slide to the floor and tilted his head toward her with a palliative hand drawn, palm up. “What’d I do this time or forget to do? It’s not our anniversary, unless you do that half-anniversary bullshit. Then I missed it by a little. Babe.” He bit his cheek. “I’m sorry I forgot.”

“This isn’t about an anniversary, Nate.”

“Then wanna tell me what it is about?” He stretched his arms wide. “I’m at a loss.”

Rin stood more confidently than she had in a while. “Oh, you know what I’m talking about. You just didn’t know that I knew. But I’m not stupid. Not near as fucking senseless as you are.” She slammed the piece of paper she’d hidden in the magazine down on the wooden coffee table between them, and then she folded her arms.

He closed and locked the door. His deliberate movements zinged a chill up her spine. She shook it off. Almost there. Almost home free.

“What is it?” Nate asked before turning. He maintained a neutral mask, but the edges cracked in the bulging vein in his neck and the grinding of his jaw.

“Why don’t you ask your girlfriend?” Rin spat.

“I did.”

“Nope. Me,” she said, pointing at her chest, “not your girlfriend.” She made a deliberate show of peering at the paper. “Jen, on the other hand, has—skillfully from the sound of things—mastered that art.”

“Where’d you get that?” he barked.

“Wrong question,” she breathed through her teeth. “You need to ask, ‘How long do I have to get my shit out of your house before you give it to the homeless, Rin?’”

“I’m not cheating on you.

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