Bones by K.L. Savage

Author:K.L. Savage [Savage, K.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-11-05T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

James sits on the couch waiting for me when I wake up in the morning. It’s been like this for days. I’ll come out of my room and he’s just sitting there, staring into space until I come out. He’ll quickly go into my room without a word to me, take a shower, then be out quicker than I can make my coffee. After the disappearing act I pulled on him the other day, he’s going for the world record for quickest shower.

He moves around me in the kitchen, grabbing a protein bar and shoving it in his pocket. Two days ago, he bought groceries and brought more of his things over. It’s very clear that he has no intention of going away any time soon, and I’m absolutely not allowed out of his sight for as long as he can help it.

I feel like a dog in a cage. I have no freedom except for what he grants me, and even then I know he’s always close by, watching my every move. He acts like I should be grateful, like he’s doing me some great kindness by watching my every move. He doesn’t realize that this is exactly the life I never wanted.

When I’d come home after our fight last week, I fully expected him to be gone. I was so ready to reclaim my space and forget he’d ever existed. But there he was, sitting on my couch with his feet propped up on my coffee table. He looked very comfortable sitting on my couch and drinking my beer. I was absolutely furious and threatened to call the cops.

“And when you call them, will you tell them it’s Melissa Anthony?” he asked coldly. “Or will you tell them it’s Melissa Prudent, the beloved child of their mayor? Wait, wait, do you have a special, direct line to the chief of police?”

Shit. He was never supposed to find out about me. I realized in that moment I’d underestimated him. I thought he was just a pretty face with no real critical thinking skills. For weeks, he never asked me anything overly personal. We just were who we were and we left it at that. But the second he was confronted with the truth, he had a million questions for me.

“Why did you change your name? Does your father even know where you are? Do you still talk to him? Does he know that you have a prominent member of the Ruthless Kings sleeping on your couch?”

“I didn’t know I did,” I’d whispered in rage. “It looks like I’m not the only one keeping secrets.”

“Oh, you knew,” he’d spat at me. “You probably had your father’s secretary run a background check on me the moment we met. You’ve been playing me, Melissa. Do you have any idea how fucked up this is?”

“It’s not your business,” I’d shot back, my voice shaking with emotion. “Nothing about my life is your concern. You clearly hate my father and you want nothing to do with me.

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