Games Boys Play: A Dark High School Romance (Troubled Playthings Book 2) by Tiffany Sala

Author:Tiffany Sala [Sala, Tiffany]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-15T05:00:00+00:00

I couldn’t get over Ryan’s face on our trip home. Did he know how much he looked like Brad?

My mouth was going before I could manage to think better of it. “Ryan… do you ever think about our… our dad?”

Ryan stiffened so fast I felt the car sway on the road a little. “In what way?”

“Do you wonder what he’s doing these days? What he’s like? If we look like him?”

“Do you?”

I wanted to be honest, tell him exactly where I’d been that afternoon… and at the same time, I knew I couldn’t. Once he knew, everything would become a big fucking mess. If I wanted to talk, I should save it for Callie… but I both did and didn’t want to talk, and the didn’t part was enough to keep me from trying to speak up with anyone not already involved.

It seemed like the only person I’d ever been safely able to talk about any of this with was Steven, and that had turned into a big mess.

I was going to do everything I could to avoid my life turning into an even bigger mess.

“I don’t think about him,” I said. “But sometimes it feels weird. Like, there’s this whole big part of us we know almost nothing about.”

Ryan braked a little harder at a stoplight than he usually did. “Not almost nothing. We know the guy is a scumbag, a woman-beater. We know he hurt you. That’s fucking enough, wouldn’t you think?”

The funny thing was, the anger in Ryan’s voice right now was scaring me a lot more than being in Brad’s presence had at lunchtime.

The idea of facing Mum again was scaring me a lot more.

When the lights changed and Ryan started the car rolling again, he seemed a bit calmer for the outburst. “Sometimes finding out more isn’t a good idea, Tamara. Sometimes it only makes things worse.”

I felt that, more than I could tell him. If only I could have kept being that Tamara I knew Mum loved: a quiet girl who hid away and didn’t make drama. The precious girl she thought she had saved.

But there was something else in me that was the complete opposite of that girl—maybe something that had come from Brad Chalmers. All I knew was it was just as much a part of me, and it meant I was not going to be able to let go of this now it had started. I wouldn’t let go of anything.

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