Cruel Boys: The Dark Bully Romance Box Set by Bella King

Author:Bella King [King, Bella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-01-30T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

Scarlet

I knew something was wrong the moment I opened my eyes. I had the feeling in my gut, but I didn’t want it to be right when looked beside me and saw Dylan had left the bed. This was bad, and I was already beginning to regret bringing that man into my house.

I jumped up out of bed, grabbing my robe and tying it the belt around my waist tightly. I looked toward the bathroom, but I already knew that he wasn’t there. There was no yellow light shining from underneath the door to indicate that he was just cleaning up or using the toilet. I had a huge problem.

I walked silently across the bedroom, swinging open my bedroom door and peering down the staircase into the darkness. I was afraid to go down there without turning the lights on, but I didn’t want to alert Dylan to the fact that I was onto him. I wanted to catch him in the act.

I tiptoed down the stairs, using the pads on the front of my feet to reduce the noise I made. I wasn’t very large, so I barely made noise at all as I crept down into the darkness. I could hear my heart beating wildly in my chest, and I was afraid that Dylan would be able to hear it as well. It was that loud.

I heard noises coming from one of the rooms, and I was relieved to hear that it wasn’t the jewelry room. Maybe Dylan had just gone to the kitchen to get a snack or something to drink. That would have eased my worries immensely, but as I flicked on the light in the first room, I learned that it wasn’t the case.

“What are you doing?” I asked, seeing a fully-clothed Dylan bending over an opened dresser with a small gold trinket in his hand.

He shot straight up, looking back at me with guilt written all over his tragically handsome face. “I was putting them back,” he blurted, tossing the trinket into the dresser. “I swear, I was returning them.”

I felt tears welling up behind my eyes. I should have been angry, but I was more disappointed and saddened by what I was seeing. Dylan, the man that I was falling in love with, was trying to rob my house. I had trusted him, and now, I was paying the price for that.

“After all this,” I said, my voice trembling, “You are betraying me?”

Dylan came up to me with his hands out in front of him, shaking his head. His eyebrows were titled back in distress. “No, I swear to you, Scarlet. I didn’t mean for it to be this way. I didn’t want this.”

“Then why did you do this?” I asked, holding up a hand to keep him from grabbing me.

“I had to,” he said.

“You had to betray me? What kind of a man are you?” My voice was beginning to grow angry as I felt the tears flow from my face.

“A poor man,” he said, shaking his head.

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