The Edge of Chaos : A Best Friend's Older Brother Forbidden Romance (The Edge Series Book 4) by J. Saman & Julie Saman

Author:J. Saman & Julie Saman [Saman, J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-07-21T16:00:00+00:00

19

Rina

Ice pellets slap against my windows and back patio, sending a flurry of chills up my spine to the point where I feel like no matter what, I can’t get warm. The fact that the power is out and the heat with it likely isn’t helping. In all the years I’ve lived in this house in this city, I’ve never lost power. Not once.

It’s the absolute cruelest form of irony and twist of hateful fate.

Like it’s saying you can run but you can’t hide and there is no escape. That’s how it feels. That’s exactly how it feels. I could live my life. Go about my days. But I always knew he was somewhere, lurking, waiting to strike. I existed in a permanent state of suspense. A perpetual pang of panic resided in my gut.

Today is the day and there is an ice storm.

Today is the day and it’s dark once more.

I’ve been better at this in years past. This year everything is off, thrown about and scattered around and I don’t know how to pick up the pieces and realign myself. I wish Bishop had never reached out. I wish I had never called him back. I wish Harrison Bishop had never set his sights on me.

My eyes close and I remember that night. The sound of the rain slapping against the windows of the building. The darkness of the room. The smell of his breath and sweat and tears. Of gunpowder and blood.

It was pervasive.

Still is evidently.

My brothers have been calling and texting me all day. My parents rang me from Germany, guilt and concern heavy in their voices and saturating their every word. The letter that brutally arrived today sits untouched, unopened on my coffee table and I have the strongest inclination to throw it into the fire. What can it possibly say other than destructive things?

He was a destructive man.

A brutalizing, terrorizing entity.

I shove it away and watch as the long, thin envelope teeters precariously on the edge of the coffee table before slipping off and falling to the rug close to the fireplace. Close, but not quite close enough.

Standing up, I sip at my glass of wine and set it down, staring at the letter. My fingers tap against my thigh, one, two, three, four. One, two, three—I’m cut off as my phone rings.

Ugh. “I’m fine, Oliver,” I answer. I’m not fine. I’m freaking the fuck out. Even the counting and tapping aren’t helping me tonight. But the last thing I want is for my brother to know and get it into his head that he, or another one of my brothers, needs to race over here in the middle of an ice storm.

“Rina, I know for a fact that you’re not fine. Hell, I’m not fine. It’s the anniversary of when you were kidnapped by a deranged man. His letter to you arrived today, six years after the fact. There is an ice storm taking over Boston and knocking out power. So don’t lie to me and tell me you’re fine.

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