Reckless Heat by Harris Lynn Raye

Author:Harris, Lynn Raye [Harris, Lynn Raye]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781941002124
Publisher: H.O.T. Publishing, LLC
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

MATT

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After that night at Evie’s house, I try to get back to normal. I take Jeanine out Wednesday night. And yeah, I definitely have a good time. She’s soft and warm, so wet and ready for me. I hesitate right before plunging into her body, as if it’s wrong somehow.

But it’s dark and I can pretend she’s someone else. I know exactly who I’m going to pretend she is. While it horrifies me in one sense, it turns me on wildly in another. I come hard and then I take her home.

What the fuck is wrong with me? That’s what I don’t understand. Why, after all these years, is it Evie’s face I see when I fuck Jeanine? And why does that make me lose my mind?

I don’t know, and I’m not going to find out. Graduation is Thursday night. One more week and I’m gone, off to prepare for the start of my new life. I could have stayed in Rochambeau for a little while longer, but I’ve arranged everything to leave immediately. I have to report to West Point in early July. For the three weeks before that, I’m staying with family friends in DC and New York.

I can’t wait.

The old man isn’t around much. He’s on a drinking spree lately, spending his time at the clubs and ignoring Christina and me. If not for the housekeeper and cook, we’d have to take care of ourselves. Not that it’s a hard thing to do, but when you have a parent, isn’t he supposed to be involved in your life and care whether or not you eat McDonald’s for every meal or have something home cooked?

Christina reads her books and shrugs. I worry about her being here for the next year without me, but Christina never makes the old man mad the way I do. He never slaps her, not ever.

But what if that changes when I leave?

My stomach aches as I think of it. All the things I haven’t considered while I’ve been determined to get the hell out of here. What will happen to Christina? What will happen to Evie?

It’s too late to worry about it now. If I wash out of West Point, I have to come back here and endure my father’s weaknesses, his rages, his attempts to control me.

And he will control me, because he has the money. Until I reach the age of twenty-five and gain control of my trust, I’ll be doing whatever the fuck my old man wants me to do.

I’m determined that isn’t going to happen.

Graduation day comes and I walk across the stage. If my father is there, I don’t know it. But Christina is there. Mrs. Doucet is there, too. She’s the Girard family lawyer and has been for ages. There’s also Mrs. Simpson, our housekeeper, and Bonnie, the cook. They clap and cheer for me, and I salute them with a tip of my fingers at my cap as I walk across the stage.

After the ceremony, I spot Evie talking to Mrs.

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