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Chapter 9:: A Secret We Share
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2026-09-14 16:47:45
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Love And Lies: short stories Chapter 33:My Bad Boy Student
I had almost said no to the alumni event three separate times."You have to come," the department head had insisted over the phone. "The career panel needs someone from the humanities side, and the students always love hearing from you specifically. You made an impression, Marianne."I hadn't expected that impression to still be walking around campus eight years later, looking nothing like the boy I remembered."Ms. Calloway." Julian's voice hadn't changed, even if everything else about him had — broader now, more sure of himself, nothing left of the gangly seventeen-year-old who used to sit in the back of my literature class pretending not to care about the material. "I wondered if you'd still be teaching here.""Guest lecturing, actually." I smoothed my blazer, grateful for the excuse to look anywhere but directly at him. "They asked a few of us back for the career panel. What about you? I don't remember seeing your name on any program.""I'm not a speaker. Just an alum with a nice
Love And Lies: short stories Chapter 32: Fucking My Sexy Bodyguard
The business partner's plates turned out to be a dead end — a rental car, paperwork that led nowhere, a man who'd been out of the country the entire two weeks in question. Gavriel spent two days chasing it down personally, growing more frustrated with every call that led back to nothing.I was the one who found the first real thread, almost by accident.I'd been going through old emails, looking for anything that might explain who'd want to watch me, when I noticed something that didn't sit right — the original tip that had flagged my apartment as compromised had come through a private line at the security firm. Gavriel's direct line."Why would the threat assessment go straight to you," I asked slowly, "before it ever reached my father?"Gavriel didn't answer right away. That hesitation told me everything the words eventually did."Because I flagged it," he said finally. "I'm the one who told your father you needed protection.""Based on what?""Based on things only I could have seen
Love And Lies: short stories Chapter 31:Fucking my sexy bodyguard
The creak came again. Closer this time.Gavriel moved without a sound, gun raised, body angled between me and the dark hallway. "Stay here. Do not move."I didn't argue. Couldn't, really my legs had gone numb with fear the second I heard it the first time.He cleared the hallway in slow, deliberate steps, checking each doorway before he moved past it. Evelyn stood frozen by the counter, pulse hammering so hard she could feel it in her throat, straining to hear anything over the blood rushing in her ears.Three minutes felt like thirty before he came back, gun lowered, shoulders only slightly less rigid than before."Raccoon," he said. "Knocked something off the back porch. Tripped the motion sensor."The relief hit her so hard her knees actually buckled. He caught her before she hit the floor, arm wrapping tight around her waist, and for a second neither of them said anything at all."I thought—" Her voice cracked. "I actually thought—""I know." His hand came up to the back of her
Love And Lies: short stories Chapter 30:Fucking my sexy bodyguard
"You're overreacting," Evelyn said, arms crossed, watching the man her father's security firm had sent stride into the safe house like he already owned it."Your father doesn't agree." Gavriel set his bag down by the door, scanning the room once, twice, the way people did when checking exits had become instinct rather than habit. "Neither do I, for what it's worth.""You don't even know what happened.""I know enough." He turned to face her properly for the first time, and something in his expression made it clear this wasn't a conversation he intended to lose. "Someone's been watching your apartment for two weeks. That's not paranoia. That's a pattern."She didn't have a good argument for that, so she didn't try to make one. Instead she dropped onto the couch, arms still crossed, radiating the kind of stubborn frustration that came from being told what to do in her own life."How long am I stuck with you?""However long it takes." He didn't rise to the bait in her tone. "I'll stay in
Love And Lies: short stories Chapter 29:My husband’s best man
Eliot had been talking about the pool all week, the way he did with anything that let him show off a little. By the time Saturday came around, there was no getting out of it not without raising a question neither Richard nor I could risk being asked.“Bet I still finish the lap faster than you,” Eliot said, stretching by the water’s edge, that competitive gleam he never quite outgrew lighting up his face.Richard snorted. “Keep dreaming.”I stayed near the shallow end, towel wrapped tight, watching the two of them fall back into an old rhythm that had nothing to do with me and everything to do with years of friendship I had no business complicating.For the first hour it almost felt manageable. Eliot kept us both entertained, splashing, racing, loud and easy the way he always was in water. It only got harder once his phone rang from the patio and he jogged off to take the call, leaving Richard and me alone at the edge of the pool for the first time that day.“This is unbearable,” Ric
Love And Lies: short stories Chapter 28: My husbands best man
After the wedding, things went back to normal. Eliot returned to his usual business and still had Richard around from time to time. One afternoon Eliot decided it was a good chance for the three of us to spend time together and suggested we went to swim maybe in the week coming “You know I would always beat you at swimming,” Eliot said, already boasting and grinning from ear to ear.“You wish,” Richard answered back immediatelyEliot came close to me and rested his hand on my shoulder. “Won’t you join us?”I bit my lip hard. I had been avoiding Richard because he still wanted us to be together. “You know I’m—”Eliot crashed his lips against mine before I could finish the sentence, making it clear I was joining them whether I liked it or not. Behind him I saw Richard’s face change at once. His knuckles tightened until they turned white.I pushed Eliot back with my hand. “Stop. Your friend is here.”“It’s not like he hasn’t seen more than this,” Eliot said without shame. “Unfortunatel
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