Echoes of Unrequited Love

Chapter 133

Thinking of this. I made an about–face, but as soon as I reached the doorway, there was a sudden clang right next to my ear. When I looked up, Hogan had already taken a spill right at the bathroom door.

“Honey,” he frowned and the corners of his mouth turned down “I’m hurting.”

I’d never seen Hogan in such a sorry state before. My heart went all mushy, and I quickly walked over to him, saying, “Cut it out: time for bed.”

And Hogan actually listened and headed off to the bedroom, but the hand he grabbed onto mine with, he didn’t let go.

The booze was hitting me hard, and I just didn’t have the energy to wrestle with him any longer. After all, the more we tugged, the more time we wasted.

I was thinking of taking a stroll around the place once he was settled down. But the moment I leaned against the bed, my consciousness went rogue, and as my eyelids started to battle it out. I drifted off to dreamland too.

No clue how long I slept, but when I woke up. I was lying on a soft, big bed. The down comforter covering me was the one Hogan used last night. But the guy was nowhere to be found.

Trubbed my eyes only to see a faint dawn breaking in the sky, the east hinting at daybreak. That was when it hit me that, without realizing it, a whole night had passed.

thatched cottage? As the realization dawned on me I hurried out of bed and was about to pull open the bedroom door when I overheard

the crack of dawn sending hangover soup to

immediately hitched up into my throat.

“So what?”

you. We need a way to deal with her without

point.

the door. “Remember, we’re here to

tough cookie. Lucky I gave the

Shirley’s turf, Digging up dirt would be a piece of cake for her. I was kicking

docomo

for letting my guard down.

Hogan’s nonchalant voice rose again, “Even if she finds out, it might just save

Zade, you mean use Xaviera to

but from what I knew about him, silence often

Hogan go out of his way to keep me there last night, or was it just a fluke? Either way, it looked like I was the designated