Cross My Heart Duet by Amber Kelly

Author:Amber Kelly [Kelly, Amber]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Both of Me & Both of Us
Publisher: Amber Kelly, LLC
Published: 2020-10-14T16:00:00+00:00

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Nicco confronted Jake. He found out that Dante had approached him before we met and said that he was a friend of my father, who was a very wealthy businessman in New York. He told him I had run off to California and that I was a naïve and rebellious girl whom he was extremely worried about. He offered Jake a considerable amount of money to get insider information about me. He knew his Jake’s dad was the club’s president, and he thought it would be easy for Jake to befriend me and report back to him. So, Jake did just that. He thought he was actually helping a father keep an eye out for his daughter, and, not like he needed the money, but he was making some cash on the side. No harm, no foul.

I am devastated. Even though he stopped giving Dante any substantial information months ago, he never told me. His entire pursuit of me had been an act. He got close to me on purpose to spy on me for Dante. A man who had been stalking me for years. A man who’d drugged and tried to rape me. His obsession has somehow followed me all the way to California.

For weeks, Jake has tried to see me or talk to me. I have shut him down at every turn. Daniel asked me to hear him out because he believes he really is in love with me and that he was just tricked by Dante before he knew me. That might be the case, but he has had all the time in the world to confess it all to me, and he didn’t. My safety was in jeopardy, and I had no idea. Even Dawn and Kelsey, Melanie and Rick and the baby, anyone I was growing close to could have been a target. If there is one thing I have learned, it’s that love can hurt people. My love can hurt people.

“Are you sure you don’t want to at least hear him out?” Melanie asks.

“I’m sure.”

“I hate to see you shut down like this. You were just starting to open up and live again.”

“I should have known better.”

“Do you think he was still feeding this Dante character info?”

“No, but that’s not the point. He lied to me. He got close to me with an agenda, and I did not see it. I let his charm and his good looks weasel his way in. Maybe he eventually did fall for me, but none of the beginning was genuine. I just can’t, Mel. I just can’t.”

“I get it. He really messed up.”

“No, I did. I really messed up, and I know better.”

She looks at me with sadness in her eyes. I know she wanted this second chance for me.

“Where is this Dante person now?”

“I don’t know. Nicco can’t find him. He had the number Jake was given traced, and it led to an apartment in Los Angeles that belongs to Dante’s father’s business, but it is empty.”

“That’s disturbing.

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