AllFreeNovel
Share Us
“You asked.”
“And you supplied, yet again making me feel underwhelmed,” I deadpan.
“Is that how you’re going to start this tenure?”
“What do you mean?”
“The attitude. Do you think this is going to work for you? You think it will bode well? I said I would pay for college if you lived with me, but what about all those other expenses?”
“What other expenses?”
“Living.”
“What else do I need if I’m in your apartment, asshole?”
“Again, with the asshole thing. Well, you do need to eat every day, right?”
“You wouldn’t,” I seethe, making a mental note to keep a log of anything that may violate a legal definition for the standard of care.
“Yet you know nothing about me because if you did, you would know I totally would.”
I take a few deep, audible breaths, trying desperately to calm the anger bubbling up inside me. “What exactly am I going to have to do to get living expenses from you?”
If he says sleep with him or anything sordid at all, I’m out of here. I’d rather be homeless again than be his toy.
“All in good time,” he answers cryptically.
It isn’t long before we pull into a garage under a building.
We are at his place.
Where Trent Aldridge lives.
Where I am about to live.
The last time I was here, I didn’t pay much attention to where I was. I knocked on the door of the address my sister gave me and was let in. Well, I barged in there.
Now, I look at it with fresh eyes. The building looks somewhat like a loft or warehouse and stretches a whole block.
A shiver runs up my spine as we get closer to parking.
I know nothing about this man, and now I’m being forced to stay with him. Where will he make me sleep?
Shit.
A thought pops into my head. I try to shoo it away, but I can’t . . .
What if he expects something from me that I am not willing to give?
It feels like a bucket of ice is dumped over my head, and the shivers intensify at the thought.
No.
He wouldn’t expect that.
Would he?
Then there is the story he told me about his father. A father who sold his own daughter.
