AllFreeNovel
Share Us
The overbearing need to end it all…
I attempt to swallow again, and this time I’m successful. With a slow, deep breath, I open my eyes to the dark again and take the time to watch the stars blinking to life in the sky above me.
Charleigh had to leave, but she calls me five times a day—seven in the morning, ten in the morning, noon, three in the afternoon, and six in the evening. She makes me talk about my day and my feelings. Most people don’t know this about her, but she’s studying to be a therapist.
I’m okay being her test subject.
There’s no one else in the world I can talk to anyway, and she’s been with me since this entire thing unfolded.
Part of me feared that she felt guilty.
She was the one who pushed me to go to the party.
Told me it would be good for me. Networking, of sorts. That it was what you did after wrapping a film that was slated to be one of the highest grossing ones of the year.
I don’t think she realized the extent of this particular party, not when she urged me to go.
However, I also don’t think Charleigh felt guilted into letting me stay here for as long as I’ve been. She knew I needed a place to hide, and she had just the place. No one bothered me out here. Hell, the only person who knew I was here, was Charleigh.
Well, and her parents.
And now, Cade Johnston.
Once again, the panic begins to rise.
During Charleigh’s three o’clock call, I could tell something was worrying her.
She finally let it out, during our last call.
“I’m so sorry, Dylan, but Cade’s going to show up. He and I have been friends for forever; I don’t even know how I haven’t introduced you two yet, to be honest. But you see, he’s supposed to be on this project and he didn’t like Blake, who was casted as his opposite, so I told him to demand a casting change and, shit, Dylan, but he liked your audition. And then he figured out you were at the house. I’m so sorry.”
I knew exactly what project she’d been talking about.
It was one of the latest romance novels to be made into a film, and the moment it was announced, it was the talk of the internet. I remember auditioning for it. I’d wanted so badly to be part of this project.
It was one that could easily put me on the map, more so than You Can’t Hide, the psych thriller that…
Well.
The psych thriller that basically has now ruined my career.
Charleigh told me that Blake backed out of Forever and a Day, and that Cade was asking for me to take the spot.
If it were seven months ago…
But not now.
No way, no how.
My eyes focus on the dying embers in the firepit. I have no idea how I’m going to deal with him coming here.
I do know, though, that him showing up is going to shatter the illusion I’ve built around me.
My secret won’t remain safe.
