Tyrant by Tiana Laveen

Author:Tiana Laveen [Laveen, Tiana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: Tiana Laveen
Published: 2020-04-07T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Burn in Silence

The sun was still asleep. Stagnant darkness spread her legs wide and blocked the clouds and light with a cosmic orgasm. Hunter peered outside the kitchen window as he poured himself a glass of orange juice from Nita’s stash in the refrigerator. She was upstairs in her bedroom, the old-fashioned rhythm and blues music blasting, and he also could hear the upstairs hall shower while Tisha sang some love song in the bathroom, the sound partially drowned out by the water. But there were a new pair of eyes on him. Two pretty blue ones that reminded him of his friend Noah.

He turned to the teenager with the delicate features, her cheeks bright pink and her pale skin deepening a hue or two. Pushing her blond tresses away from her face, she plopped the spoon back into the cereal bowl and stirred. Just then, someone came down the stairs. Nita, surely. The shit was about to hit the fan. He placed his finger up to his lips.

“Shhh…”

“I won’t say anything. Promise.” The girl grinned real wide then focused on her cereal.

“Hey, Olive!” Nita said, sounding chipper as she entered the dining room. “I see you’re up early and—” The woman stopped cold in her tracks when she caught him grabbing a skillet from the lower cabinet and placed it on one of the eyes of the stove. “Uh… hi, Hunter.” Her voice was choppy, like the air had been snuffed out of her. With his back to her, he could only imagine her face right then, probably wild about the eyes, but trying to play it off like all was well. He took out a carton of eggs and a stick of butter from the refrigerator.

“Hey, Nita… got any pancake batter?” He turned in her direction and the woman looked as if she’d seen a ghost. He winked at her, hoping she’d simply play along. “I stopped by this morning to see you, and Olive was already downstairs. I explained to her that you gave me a key since I’ll be doing some repairs over here. Figured I’d make her some breakfast that’s a little better than those Frosted Flakes before she heads off to school.”

Nita blinked a few times, straightened her back, and put on a stern, business-like expression that he found funny as hell.

“Yeah, there’s some in here. I’ll get it for you.” She approached him, reached up on her tippy toes, and grabbed a box featuring a picture of fluffy pancakes soaked in syrup, then handed it to him. “She was already down here?” she whispered.

“Yup.”

“Thank you for handling this.” She opened another cabinet, the one that had liked to beat up her fingers before he fixed it, and removed a juice glass.

“Yeah, it’s handled. You want something to eat?” he offered.

She shook her head. In reality, Olive had caught him when he was halfway out the door and called out to him. He could see she’d figured out what was going on without

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