Docked by Jason Collins

Author:Jason Collins [Collins, Jason]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-04-16T18:30:00+00:00

Hunter

I couldn’t tell Cameron about the fear.

For one thing, I was way too embarrassed about it, how Cameron had his fear of the water and it seemed like I’d developed a fear of being on land. It just didn’t seem fair to bother him with it, not when he’d worked so hard on tackling his own issues, on trying to get over his own trauma. I just couldn’t see myself burdening him with my trauma, piling on top of whatever else he’d been dealing with behind his therapist’s closed door.

There was also the fact that I wasn’t sure if my fear was even rational at all. While I’d suspected that Ron had hired P.I.s to follow me around the city, just waiting for me to make it back onto dry land, I was starting to wonder if everything was just in my head. I’d been able to stay inside for a few more days now, convincing Cameron to stay in with me once he finished with work. It hadn’t been hard to convince Cameron to hang out with me on the living room couch instead of going out on the town, especially after he had that run-in with Frankie at the bar.

But I was worried that I’d somehow turned into a full-time recluse.

And maybe that was the point of Ron sending all those P.I.s after me, anyway. Was this what he always wanted? A version of me that was so terrified to leave the house that I’d rather spend all my time indoors? Or was I right from the beginning? Was there a line of P.I.s just waiting to step out of the bushes and ambush me with questions about a crime I hadn’t committed?

“We have to go out tonight.” Cameron’s voice floated over to where I was sitting on the living room couch. It’d been another day of me watching the clock tick by, wondering if I was just being paranoid or if Ron was playing the long game, waiting until I least suspected him to pop back up in my life.

“What?” I looked up at Cameron from the book in my hands, my eyes landing right on the suit he’d worn to work today. I’d been making my way through some of the thrillers that Cameron had on his bookshelf, which were probably only making things worse in terms of my paranoia. Still, it was nice to have fraught protagonists that I was able to identify with as I read along. “Why do we have to go out tonight?”

“Because I have to meet with some potential clients,” he answered.

“We’re not meeting up with Frankie again are we?” I groaned at the thought.

“Oh, fuck no.” Cameron chuckled as he replied. “But don’t be surprised if Frankie ends up sending some sort of gift to the apartment. That’s how he likes to make up with people, by sending them some designer clothes or a bunch of front row tickets to some concert he knows they want to go to.”

“Got it.” I nodded.

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