But I do it anyway.
A house full of sorority girls couldn’t have stopped me.
I’ve got the fucking devil in me now.
I race upstairs, reeling and nearly losing my footing as I whip around the corner at the top of the stairs at full speed. I grab the railing, using my momentum to slingshot me down the hall.
Haven’s bedroom door is closed, but unlocked.
Bitch still hasn’t learned her lesson.
I have time to study the room this time. No unconscious Haven begging for attention. No one coming in behind me to have their fun with her.
One side of the room is tidy. White, pink. The odd bit of glitter on a notebook or a pen. Melissa’s side.
Haven’s side of the room isn’t just a different story, it’s a completely different genre. The same duffel bags I helped her carry upstairs are on the floor at the foot of the bed, both zipped open, clothes spilling out.
Coffee mugs and water glasses clutter her nightstand, that same pretty pearly-white bedside lamp with its silver-beaded shade so close to the edge it could go flying off any second.
I can smell her as I prowl closer to the bed.
No. Not her.
Rooke.
He’s fucking everywhere.
I grab her pillow and press it to my nose.
He’s on there.
I snag the blanket and smell it. He’s on here too.
He’d probably be on her sheets…if she had any.
Where the fuckareher sheets?—
I stare at the blurry pink red splotch in the middle of Haven’s mattress that the gray blanket had been covering.
Jesus.
I feel like I’m trespassing on a crime scene.
And yet, seeing that stain, all I can think about is the way Haven’s bloody pussy tasted.
Did it taste the same to Rooke?
I slump down on the bottom corner of the bed, shoving my hands in my hair. I don’t know if I was about to start sobbing like a fucking pussy again, or yelling like a psych patient, but I do neither.
Frowning, I bounce on the mattress.
Below me, another faintpop.
The fuck?
I stand, stick my hand under the mattress, and pull out a wad of bubble wrap. There’s a phone, a black Amex, and a note inside.
My eyes blur before I can get halfway through, so I have to start over, reading the same words on repeat until they make sense.
