Whiskey Splash: A Celebrity Romantic Comedy (Flambé Series Book 2) by Elle Berlin

Author:Elle Berlin [Berlin, Elle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-07-05T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

I take an Uber home and sit on my front deck looking out at the city.

I don’t go inside.

Instead, the cold wood of the raised patio is wet and hard and perfectly grounding. I look out at the darkness, the city dim, but still sparkling from its drenching of rain. The bay is no longer tossing with waves and the resort looks small and miniature from way up here—far away.

Exactly where it needs to be.

Far, far away.

I want everything to stay dark with the ocean wafting softly in the moonlight after the breaking storm, the sky starless. I want everything to be muffled and safe, protected from the bright harsh reality that I’ll have to face in the morning. The girl that I am now. The truth … revealed for all to see on the internet, if what Desmond said doesn’t pan out. Even if there are no pictures and nothing is uploaded to the internet, I know who I was tonight with him. I know the shameless unreproachable woman he let out. The girl I’ve hidden for years, who foolishly wanted to trust someone with her body, her desires. Who dodged a bullet, despite her carelessness.

Tonight was a warning. A reminder of what happens when I let someone get too close, of when I let down my guard. A reminder that I will never be my sister, because we may have the same face, the same body, the same voracious desire … but I’m the one who gets destroyed in the fire.

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