No Love Left Behind by Jenni M. Rose

Author:Jenni M. Rose [Rose, Jenni M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-10-29T16:00:00+00:00

11

Was she taking an unnecessary risk by not reporting Connor?

He’d never gone so far as to break into her home, destroy her things. This was beyond what she thought he was capable of. For years, he’d preyed on her guilt and she’d paid him, but she wondered just how much damage she’d done. It became clearer every time she saw him that he was spiraling out of control.

The display he’d left with her underwear had been a very clear message, just as Lincoln had said.

Connor’s next visit would be his last.

This was the final straw in their sick relationship.

“You’re right,” she told Lincoln. “I’ll tell him he needs to stop coming by.”

“After this, I find it hard to believe he’ll be willing to follow such a polite request. You need to send this guy a message, Sadie. A legal one that creates consequences for his actions.”

“You think I should have him thrown in jail? The brother of the girl I got sent to prison for killing. Seems a little twisted, doesn’t it?”

“To be honest, I don’t really care how it seems. I only care that he’s not going to show up here and hurt you. There’s no doubt in my mind that if you’d been home when he came to break in that he would have tried to cause you physical harm.”

“He’s just confused,” she reasoned.

Why was she reasoning? Lincoln was right. Connor would have hurt her if she’d have been home. She almost wondered if he didn’t come for just that reason only to find the house empty.

Her stomach clenched when she dug deeper, searching for her hesitation to tell Lincoln the truth.

Her shame was a living and breathing thing inside her. Connor knew how to play it and she knew how to hide from it. Admitting to Lincoln that she’d been emotionally blackmailed by Connor would not only expose the guilt she still felt for killing Dani but also her embarrassment for going along with it in the first place. She was smart enough to know she had nothing to hide. Connor had no hold over her other than fear and guilt.

The problem was, when it came to Connor, Sadie had those two things in spades.

“What was he confused about when he peeled out of your driveway last Friday? You know, when you told me he was just a guy that does some work for you,” Lincoln challenged.

“Again, I don’t owe you an explanation for everything that goes on in my life. Just because we’re sleeping together—”

“It’s more than that and you know it. At the very least we’re friends.”

“I don’t have friends,” she told him, standing from her spot on the floor and bending down to throw some things back in the vanity cabinet. “If you haven’t noticed, I’m working on building a life for myself out here. Not anyone else. Not my friends. Just me.”

“Just you, the dogs, and Connor, huh?” he bit out as he stood, as well, arms crossed over his chest.

Yeah, she agreed silently, that was about the extent of what she had.

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