Drawn To You: A Psychological thriller by Ren Montgomery

Author:Ren Montgomery [Montgomery, Ren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Psychological suspense thriller
Publisher: Nunya
Published: 2021-09-28T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 25

The next evening, Ruby slammed the car door and wiped her sweaty palms on her skirt. She was hobbled, her back as tight as banjo strings. She’d been gobbling painkillers all day and she hoped her liver was up to the job.

She slung her tiny backpack over her shoulder and gave it a pat. It could pass for a purse, but she’d packed minimal overnight supplies inside (lingerie, toothbrush, lipstick) in case Sean asked her to stay the night. If he didn’t, he need never know she’d come prepared.

She was also packing one of the walkie talkies she’d bought with Hilary. Better known as a family radio system, it had over a hundred channels and a range of over two miles, and she figured if she taped the send button down and hid it under his couch, she could sit in her car and listen in to his conversations as long as the batteries lasted. Which wouldn’t be long, but she hoped Sean would discuss her with his brother after she left. She needed to know how he really felt about her. She knew there were better ways to do this, but she wasn’t all that techie, and this was all she’d been able to work out.

She grabbed the wine and the bouquet of pink roses off the passenger seat and ambled up the walk.

She paused at the bottom of the porch steps and stared at the roses. Should she give them to Sean or not? After all, he hadn’t brought anything for her the other day, and this was really only their second date.

It was too much too soon. She would look desperate and eager, and what if he didn’t like flowers? And they were nothing special, just grocery store roses…

This was a huge mistake.

Sure now, that the flowers were the worst idea ever, she put the wine bottle under her arm and started unzipping her backpack. She’d just hide the flowers inside and he’d never know. The zipper caught on something inside her pack, and she was yanking on it when she heard a dog start barking. Her movements became frantic as she tried to stuff the roses into the small opening she’d managed to make in her bag.

They didn’t fit.

She stuffed harder, but they weren’t even halfway in when the porch light came on and she heard Sean say, “Chloe—down! No jumping!”

She was behaving like a maniac! They were just flowers after all. Why was she freaking out? She pulled the bouquet out of her bag and started up the steps. As she heard the chain sliding back, she looked down at the flowers and did a double take. They were trashed. In her mad dash to conceal them, she’d mangled the stems and broken the heads off half of them. She couldn’t give him this!

“You are so stupid!” she whispered, on the verge of tears.

She flung them into the bushes by the porch, just as the door opened a crack and she caught sight of Sean.

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