The Book of Adam and Jo: an Interracial Literary Romance by C.L. Donley

Author:C.L. Donley [Donley, C.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Independent
Published: 2019-10-18T05:00:00+00:00

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Chapter 12

Jo didn’t sleep at her mother’s house. And when she got up the next morning, she took an Uber back to her house rather than have Adam drive her all the way home.

She didn’t know how to address it, if she wanted to address it at all. As much as she’d like to, she couldn’t forget the strange proposition of sex from Corey. Or the slimey way Gus loomed over her in the bathroom hallway after, another lewd offer right on its heels.

“You really do think you’re better than us?” he’d said. “That’s funny.”

The way his hot breath felt on her forehead. He’d threatened her to forget the whole thing or else.

Jo had gathered a few things over the weekend, one of which was that Adam liked her a lot. Another was that Adam trusted in his belief that despite white people being horrible, they got a pass. And the others, well. Perhaps he didn’t want them harmed, but they were certainly inferior— a wild card, at best.

She knew what she had to do. The relationship had been nothing but a series of humiliations glued together with thick layers of lust and thrill and intrigue. In essence, a clusterfuck sandwich. She had to cut it off. And having him believe his flesh and blood over her would be the best way to do it. The hardest, but the best.

The way Adam talked, she had no trust that he would do anything besides call her crazy if she told him about it. Or call it a misunderstanding. Gus would deny it up and down, of course. He’d told her as much himself.

Gus said she was like a dog in heat, sniffing around his redneck brothers who were “losers” with nothing to offer. He was wrong about that. Truth was, she did like Adam back. He was weird and annoying and masculine and gorgeous. Magnetic. Oddly attentive. She was willing to overlook one glaring red flag just to get to the stage where he would one day dare to touch her, just to feel what that felt like.

But it turns out when it came to red flags there were always more than just the one. Which she must’ve overlooked. She was pretty sure if she repeated to Adam what his brother Gus had said about them verbatim, he’d slap her and tell her it didn’t happen. And after two days of radio silence, she still wasn’t ready to brutally cut this cord. She was having a hard enough time quelling Judah’s asking after him.

“Is Adam coming over today?”

“I don’t know, baby. He’s really busy.”

She felt caught in the middle, a tug of war between Adam, Judah, and a third rope— her own soul. This wasn’t going away.

On Wednesday night Adam’s name popped up on her phone and it knocked the wind out of her. She was in bed, about to go to sleep anyway…

But she couldn’t ignore him anymore. She hadn’t sent the text she’d promised, for fear he would spark up conversation.

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