Blitz
One Thursday in the month of October, she met the man who was supposed to be the one.
Maybe she was na?ve, thinking that her first real boyfriend would be the man that she’d spend the rest of her life with, but she did.
She was sure that he felt the same way, too, but when he started acting strangely, she had second thoughts.
Reid told her that he loved her after just two weeks, but she didn’t feel the same way about him.
They had only been on a handful of dates by that point, and while having dinner at her favorite Italian restaurant, he blurted out the three little words that she had never been told before.
Maybe that’s why she was so thrown off by his declaration.
Foster families never worried about making her feel loved.
They thought that it was enough that they had given her a roof over her head and food in her belly.
They didn’t do feelings, and she wasn’t sure of her own, even with Reud.
Reid took that as his cue to leave, but he promised that he wouldn’t be far.
He meant it, too, because he was always lurking around every corner, watching her.
It was as though Reid didn’t care if she saw him in the shadows.
He wasn’t even trying to hide the fact that he was stalking her, and that was the scariest part of all.
When she walked into the bar to meet Drifter, she ran right into a solid wall of man—Monster.
He was hot and exactly the type of guy that she was currently trying to avoid.
She had fallen for the bad boy in Reid and look where that had gotten her—on the run with no real plan in place.
And when Drifter walked into the bar, she nearly swallowed her damn tongue.
Keeping her composure was hard to do, but she hoped that neither man saw how she had reacted to either of them.
Drifter looked like even more of a bad boy than Monster did, and she knew that gawking at either of them wasn’t going to lead her down a good path.