Chapter 38

Chapter 38

Brooklyn

My heart is pounding out of my chest as I press the stop button on the remote as fast as I can.

I return my gaze to the doorway where Aden is standing, his, dark eyes boring into me.

Please, please, please. Goddess, let him not have seen me watching his sex tape.

"What are you doing in here?" he asks, furious.

"Um..." I swallow, terrified, hoping he doesn't pick up on the tremor in my voice. "Jayde brought me here. Said I could look through some..." My eyes dart around the room for an answer that is not porn. "Some family photo albums. And home videos."

He narrows his eyes, his gaze flicking to the pile of vintage Playboys on the floor.

"Family photo albums?"

I nod. He knows I'm lying, but I can't bring myself to admit the truth.

"She shouldn't have brought you down here," he says, moving aside so that I can leave the room. I

quickly get to my feet, flicking the power button on the remote so that the TV goes blank.

the room, praying with all my might that Aden does not

closes the door behind us as I head for the steps. "Don't come down here again. Do you understand?" Believe me, I won't, I think

of the house, looking forward to going to my room so I can bury my nose into a

hand slides over smooth

slowly, I turn back towards the little door. I definitely felt

have fallen out in the weird

ever called

little door in the kitchen, pulling it open a crack to listen. I don't hear a sound. Tentatively, I put a foot

the stairs and

and grab my phone, which

pop the VHS out of the VCR and put it back in its case, which I slide back on

the vision from washing over me. Aden, naked and hard, pushing into the strange woman, giving her everything

No, Brooklyn. Stop it.

the room, quiet

begin to creep back along the hallway when

stop dead, terrified

one comes

hear the sound again to my left. A kind

myself, I consider the door from which the sound is coming. It's thick, made of iron, with no window. It has a bolt on the

see that the

it's a mistake. I know I

things, though, I stare at the door. I'm consumed, something deep inside me pushing

a hand to grip the metal handle and then, my inner voice still screaming at me to stop, I pull it open just a crack

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