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Unknown caller.
I had almost forgotten about my stubborn stalker. Him and the unusual scar over his right cheek, with eyes as sooty as the ashes lingering around his soul. Those eyes would scare the crap out of an ordinary person, but me?
No.
I wasn’t normal. I was far from it. Instead, I gave into fear.
The frightening scare that went bump in the night didn’t bother me. I let fear corrupt me, terrify me, and I received a thrill from it. I stared horror right in its insidious face, and I wouldn’t make a peep. And that’s why this complete stranger who lurked in the shadows allured me to his darkness. He intrigued me in the most fucked up way, and my panties grew wet at the idea of him watching me get off with someone else.
Bastard.
Deep down, I was as sick as him. Distorted and messed up. But I wasn’t weak. This sick fuck wouldn’t win easily.
Ignorance was bliss, and I disregarded Sin’s phone call. I pressed the red button, and he wouldn’t even get to my voicemail. I wanted to send a message loud and clear.Don’t fuck with me, asshole.
But as tenacious as he was, a call turned into another text.
Unknown:
My obsession is being a very bad girl.
His obsession?
No shit!
Me:
Leave me alone, you freak!
Sin held his grip on me to the truest of forms, almost as tightly as he wound his hands around my dainty neck. In his eyes, I bet I was his delicate flower. A primed rose ready for him to trim the way he wanted, but I wasn’t. I was a weed bound to wrap around his precious rose and ruin the garden. I cursed the day Sin Cruz ever thought he could rule the rose bed.
Unknown:
I’m only a freak for you, sweetheart.
I punched my fingers into each letter as I typed and cursed ever going to the business party. I regretted my decision to lure a man into the darkness and attract a phantom right along with him.
Me:
LEAVE. ME. ALONE.
Unknown:
Don’t take your aggression out on your phone, Liv. Take it out on me. God, I love watching you.
My eyes widened as I reread his message, and my hands trembled. The phone shook as I slowly raised my head and glanced over at the window. The glass was clear as fucking day because Sebastian hired window cleaners to keep it spotless. A job I wished he had left untouched, allowing the windows to smudge up. I wished a hurricane would blow through and splashmud all over the glass. Hell, even an unexpected Amazon delivery with curtains, for Christ’s sake!
Instead, the sun shone through because it was a sunny, warm day. Cold fall temperatures never happened here. But the leaves had changed color.
Outside my condo apartment, across the street, a light breeze blew through the trees. The leaves fell to the ground and dusted the grass. The mass amount of tall trees mixed in with evergreens made it the perfect hiding place for my phantom.
Sin Cruz could lurk, watch, and wait. I was easy prey and had no way of shutting him out. He could eye me up in a single bite and I’d be a goner.
This asshole was too cowardly to face me as he hid in the shadows, standing behind a tree trunk and texting me threateningly. To hell with him.
With a sly smirk, I ambled my way toward the window and boldly stuck up my middle finger. If Sin was there, I wanted him to understand my message, and I wanted it to hurt. He needed to be as exposed as I was, and I wished I could see his face. I wanted to see the rejection from my stubborn will not to give in.
Sin played with me. He pulled on my strings. The same as a master would form his puppet. But I wasn’t his pawn.
