Ten Things Sloane Hates About Tru (Creative HeArts) by Childs Tera Lynn

Author:Childs, Tera Lynn [Childs, Tera Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: teen, crush, art, enemies to lovers, YA, Creative HeARTS, new girl, Contemporary, Tera Lynn Childs, Entangled, boy next door, opposites attract, category romance
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2015-09-14T03:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

The fighting was worse than usual. Tru didn’t know what his mother had done to upset the beast this time, but he heard the dishes break all the way upstairs in his room.

Tru went into the kind of zone that allowed him to still function while it was happening. For years, he had sat huddled at the end of the hall and listened. He had only tried once to intervene, had stepped between his mother and the blow she was about to receive.

For his efforts, he had ended up with a broken clavicle and a lecture from his mother about not getting involved.

That was a lesson he didn’t need to learn more than once.

Ever since, he had locked himself away in his room, tuning it out as much as possible and focusing on work until the fight turned into the making up.

The cycle was always the same. The raging fight. The tearful groveling. The making up behind locked doors.

To make it through without losing his mind and without giving in to the urge to race downstairs and protect the woman who would never return the favor, he focused on his work. Opened his editing software and dug in on his short film. The layers of sound and image and special effect, the intricacies of timing and color and cuts from one angle to another, were hypnotic.

He should have been working with headphones on—it was better for the sound editing—but then he wouldn’t know when it was over downstairs. While he wasn’t consciously listening to the fight, his subconscious was keeping tabs.

He let himself get lost in the video, focusing on the tiniest of details, over and over.

Several times he found his mind drifting to Sloane. Since the revelation that she’d been behind the Midtown Tower art installation, he’d been thinking about her in a new light. It hadn’t been a lie when he said he had new respect for her. It’s like he opened a door and found a whole new Sloane on the other side. A Sloane who not only stood up for herself and spoke her mind, but one who was willing to risk far more than he ever had.

He couldn’t even stand up to his father, let alone the NYPD.

Thinking about Sloane and his father in the same sentence made his stomach lurch. Then again, how could he even think of her while the one-sided battle between his parents raged downstairs?

If he cared for her so much as a little bit, he had to keep her as far from the line of fire as he could. Because if Tru knew one thing for sure, it was that his father had the ability to extinguish even the brightest star. And Tru couldn’t live with himself if he let that happen to Sloane.

He had no idea how much time had passed when his subconscious noted the telltale click of the lock on his parents’ bedroom door.

The switch in his brain flipped, and he waited only as long as

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