“I bugged my brother’s phone,” he fills in after several beats. “When I found you…and you were with him…I hacked it.”
“W-why?”
“To protect you.”
“From who?”
“Them.”
“You can’t—they’ve beenniceto me.”
“That doesn’t mean they’re nice people, Daydream. I know them, more than I’d like you to know. And they’ll drag you down with them whenthey crumble?—”
“How?”
“How will they crumble?” He tilts his head to the side. “Or how did I see you on Christmas?”
I’m going to regret this. I know it.
“Both.”
I don’t think I’m ready to hear both answers. There is nothing that’s going to prepare me for the atomic bomb he’s going to drop on me because I’m questioning things I don’t want to question.
“Bobby is involved in the mob,” he says matter-of-factly. “And I came to you on Christmas so you wouldn’t be alone.”
That’s…the first time I slept with Bobby.
I didn’t DM Bobby on Instagram until a month after I thought I met him because Nettie wouldn’t shut up about it.
We talked for about two, back and forth, until I felt comfortable enough to go on a date with him, and he wasn’t out of his mind.
I blame crime documentaries and living single for over two years, that I was paranoid.
In September, Bobby claimed he was going to Paris to bring in new clientele for Harding Holdings.
He was here for a few weeks, and he went a bit MIA. I thought he just wasn’t interested in me, and was showing me why he was called a playboy on the internet.
Then he came to my condo.
Begged me for a second date, which brought us into October.
In November and December, he wooed me off my feet.
Christmas…he fucked me for hours.
“Again,” I ground out, feeling sick to my stomach, but my blood pressure is through the roof right now. “You…trickedme.”
“In your defense, you didn’t know there were two of us?—”
“Youassaultedme.”
His brows furrow. “Excuse me?”
“I didn’t know you were a stranger,” I exclaim, dropping my coffee mug aimlessly on the table before I stand on my feet. “You weren’t the man I was dating and texting?—”
“I should’ve been.”
I glower at him. “Are you out of your fucking mind right now?! I love Bobby. I’m supposed tomarryBobby.”
