Addicted to Roseanne {GL} のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 11 - チャプター 13

Chapter Eleven — HollowRoseanne's POVI stared at my mother's text for three full seconds.Then I got out of the car.Elle reached for my arm. "Rose.""I have to go in.""I know. I'm just saying — you don't have to explain everything today. Not if you're not ready."I looked at her through the open car door. She was right and I knew she was right and it did not help at all. "I'll text you."I shut the door and walked up the driveway.My mother was in the kitchen. She was not doing anything — not making coffee, not looking at her phone. Just standing at the counter with her hands flat on the surface, facing the window. That was how I knew it was bad. My mother was never still."Sit down," she said without turning around.I sat at the kitchen table. My hands were in my lap and I pressed them together to keep them steady.She turned around. Her face was not angry. I almost wished it was. Anger I could push back against. What she had instead was something quieter and more complicated — a

Chapter Thirteen — ProxyElle's POVI read the text twice."You think you're protecting her. You're just making it worse. Back off or the rest of the pictures go to her father."Different number from the first unknown text. Same energy. Same goal. Jake was not done — he had just stopped using his own hands. Smart enough to create distance, stupid enough to think distance would protect him.I saved the screenshot and added it to the document. Noted the time, the number, the exact wording. Then I put my phone face-down on the table and finished making the kitchen clean because Roseanne was twenty minutes away and I wanted her to walk into something calm.The kettle clicked off. I poured two cups and sat down.My mind kept drifting to her. The way she had looked getting out of my car this morning — tired and braced, walking up that driveway like she was heading into something she could not avoid. The line of her shoulders. The way she had not looked back. I wanted to rewind the whole mor