Chasing Hadley: (The Honeyton Mysteries, Book 1) by Sorensen Jessica

Author:Sorensen, Jessica
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Borrowed Hearts Publishing LLC
Published: 2022-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

33

HADLEY

My wrist is throbbing, my face is tender, and my head is pulsating. What a freakin’ day. And it’s only half over. I wish I could go home, take a nap, then spend the night chatting with my sisters. Usually when I’m feeling down, that’s what makes me feel better. But that’s not an option right now.

Well, at least it’s lunchtime.

Then again, I’m supposed to be having lunch with Scarlett Porterson, a decision I’m kicking myself in the ass for agreeing to. Not that I don’t like Scarlett. I barely know her and considering what her dad did to me earlier…

I grit my teeth, wrapping my hand around my burnt wrist.

When Mr. Porterson called me back into his office, it was to make certain I understood who owned me now. The way he did this? By calling up two of his men to pin my arm down so he could use a branding iron to mark me with his business’s crest. I didn’t give him the satisfaction of screaming and held as still as I could, obeying only because he threatened my sisters’ well-beings again.

After he marked my skin, he gave me a list of rules I’m to abide to if I want my sisters to stay safe and out of this mess.

1). For the next five years, he owns me and he’ll be calling in all sorts of favors, the first being holding on to the mysterious box.

2). He can call on me at any given time and I’m to obey without arguing.

3). I’m to tell no one of the arrangement, including his sons.

4). I’m to never talk about what I see while working for him.

5). If my father does show up, I’m to immediately inform Mr. Porterson.

Yeah, the last one I have no problems with. The rest, however, I’ve got issues with, starting with actually working for Mr. Porterson. From what I understand, he runs illegal gambling sites, but he wouldn’t give me any details. Simply said we’d be in touch.

I think now is definitely a good time to call up my dad’s old partner. I just need to find his phone number. I think the best place to start is in my dad’s locked-up bedroom at the house. I’m also curious what he’s hiding in there. I just wish I knew if I could go home without worrying about one of Axel’s men showing up.

Maybe I’ll find out the answer to that when I talk to Blaise, something I need to do sooner rather than later, despite what happened in first period today.

“So where do you want to go eat?” Scarlett asks me as she skips up beside me with a sucker in her mouth.

I sling my bag over my shoulder. “Doesn’t matter to me.”

“You sound upset.” She pulls the sucker out of her mouth and frowns. “Do you not want to go to lunch?”

I want to nod, want to lock myself in the car and have a good cry, but when I ran into her earlier in the hallway and she asked me to hang out with her at lunch, she seemed so hopeful, so I caved.

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