Paradise Broken (A Starling Bay Novella Book 2) by Rae Vine

Author:Rae Vine [Vine, Rae]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2015-06-12T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

“You’re okay?” The worried look on Carter’s face melted away when he saw her.

“Why are you surprised?” Why wouldn’t I be okay? She wondered what state he’d expected to find her in.

He looked behind him, then to the side before he turned to faced her again.

Suspicion swirled around her. Gregory had left her feeling uneasy as it was, but Carter’s question unnerved her further.

“I just, uh—heard the door slam. The guy who left didn’t look too happy. I thought I’d check if you were okay. No other reason. You seem to be fine, so I’ll-uh, I’ll go now.” He made to move away.

Could she trust him any more than she could trust Gregory? Or was she just a sucker for Carter’s sun kissed golden hair and blue-gray eyes? Is that why she wanted to convince herself that he wouldn’t harm her?

Maybe she was letting her emotions override common sense.

“What are you doing here anyway?” She called out as he slowly sauntered away.

He turned back, faced her. “I was in the area.”

“Right, so you were. Your friends,” she air-quoted the words, “supposedly live near here don’t they?” She pointed down the street.

He cleared his throat and began to walk back towards her.

She closed the door slightly, allowing only a fraction of his face to be seen. “I’m beginning to wonder if you really do have any friends around here.” She swallowed and considered her words carefully before they left her lips. “Because I’m convinced that you were about to come into the apartment that first day we met.”

He shook his head, pursed his lips together and elicited an apologetic moan. At least he wasn’t denying it outright. Emma remembered that day when she had been ready to leave the apartment. She had opened the door to find Carter directly outside. For a second she thought he was about to come into the house.

He didn’t say anything.

“What do you want?” She asked in a low voice, not quite ready to tell him to get lost. She was clinging to the hope of finding a friendly face in a place full of people she couldn’t trust.

Had Stacy had made the same mistake?

“Just that. To see if you were okay. And regarding the other day, it’s not what it seems.”

“No shit.” She kept the door ajar. “Who is it you’re after? Gregory? Cindy?”

“Is that the guy who just walked out?”

“Yeah, like you don’t really know.” It wouldn’t surprise her to discover that he probably knew everything about them: her, Cindy, Gregory. For all she knew he’d been watching the apartment, watching her. Watching the others.

“I don’t.”

They stared at one another again. Even if she believed that he’d been concerned about her—and it was entirely plausible that he’d seen Gregory leave in a bad mood—the question still remained as to what he was doing hanging around the area. Specifically, she wanted to know what he was doing in such close proximity to her because she didn’t for one minute believe that he had friends near the apartment.

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