Chapter 2
Chapter 2
After a week away, I came home dead tired from back-to-back meetings.
I wanted to surprise Peter.
nstead, I walked into my own personal nightmare.
Rachel was sprawled on my couch wearing my favorite shorts and T-shirt-bare feet pressing down on my
tuffed puppy plush.
That little dog had been with me since freshman year of college.
never even let it get squished in my sleep, and I’d made it tiny clothes over the years.
didn’t even take off my shoes.
stormed over, yanked it out from under her, and shoved her right off the couch.
radling the plush, I smoothed its fabric with shaking hands, trying to undo the wrinkles.
Rachel, are you out of your damn mind?!” I snapped.
don’t have a saint’s temper, and she’d just trampled the one thing I considered untouchable.
Get out. This is my home. You’re in my clothes. On my couch!”
achel just knelt there on the floor, smiling like this was all some joke.
ler reaction sent a chill down my spine.
ignored her and headed to my bedroom with the plush in my arms.
My neatly folded comforter was a mess.
My skincare bottles had been rummaged through.
My closet lock had been broken, and the doors were sealed shut with duct tape.
Suspicious as hell.
I ripped the tape off. My jewelry and purses-gone.
The shock hit me so hard my vision blurred.
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Chapter 2
I tore through the apartment room by room, fury building.
In the fridge, every jar of pickled cabbage my mom had sent me was gone.
In the kitchen, a pot of chicken stew sat rotting in the heat, the smell making me gag.
My mom had made those pickles by hand.
rationed them out, savoring every bite-and this woman had wasted all of it.
The bottled water I’d bought was half-empty, and one jug had her underwear soaking in it-she said tap
vater wasn’t clean enough.
My face cream was gone, the empty jar sitting there full of cigarette ashes.
‘he aloe plant I’d been growing was hacked down to stubs-apparently, she’d been rubbing the gel on her
eet.
was so far past angry that I actually laughed.
Vhen Peter finally rushed home and saw me on the phone with the cops, his face went pale.
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