Steel Hopes (Brothers in Blue Book 3) by Jason Collins

Author:Jason Collins [Collins, Jason]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-11-19T18:30:00+00:00

11

Chase

I found that I was completely miserable once I kicked Thomas out of my house.

Rhett ended up staying for now, though he wisely took himself to another part of the apartment. Far out of my view. Good. I had been betrayed in the worst way, and I didn’t think that I could stand to look at him right now.

I retreated back to my bedroom, feeling sorry for myself and completely alone.

The worst thing was, I knew that this was all well deserved. After all, if it weren’t for the carjacking incident, my bodyguards would have every reason to believe me.

But I was the little boy who had cried wolf, and now… Now I was in danger from some creep who could harass me by email anytime that he wanted.

It hurt. I had thought that Thomas had believed me, that he’d felt something for me. But, as it turned out, he had only been lying to me.

I sniffed and pulled out my phone to glance at my email inbox. It was empty—actually, now that I thought about it, I hadn’t received another email since that disturbing one with the ketchup and the dolls.

It seemed like my stalker was giving me a break.

Or he was in the middle of preparing some other, disturbing, chain of emails. After all, I was sure he hadn’t covered that doll in ketchup on a whim.

Maybe next time he would use mustard.

I snorted at my own dark sense of humor, and then with a sigh, slipped the phone back into my pocket.

Almost against my will, my eyes fell to the top drawer inside my dresser. My feet carried me across the room, and I opened it up with slightly trembling hands.

There, sitting on a purple velvet pillow was a travel-size bottle of vodka.

Yes, I was that dramatic.

I kept this little travel-size bottle, taken from the last first-class flight I’d flown before I’d entered rehab and gotten sober. It was a keepsake from a time in my life that I was determined never to revisit.

It was also a way to test my own resolve.

And for the first time in a long time, I found myself severely tempted.

It would be so easy to slip back into my old mindset. To tell myself that I could just have one drink and then stop.

But I had learned the hard way—over and over again—that I wasn’t somebody who was capable of stopping once I started.

I was a man who lived on the extreme edge, and that meant that I couldn’t allow myself to slip again and take that drink.

No matter how much I seriously wanted it.

With a long sigh and a sense of victory, I closed the drawer.

Okay, so I wouldn’t allow myself to have an alcoholic drink. So what about something tasty?

It was barely noon, but I could seriously go for a big bowl of ice cream. You were supposed to have ice cream after a breakup, right?

True, I had pretty much fired Thomas, not broken up with him, but my heart was hurting as if I had.

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