A Dirty Secret With My Best Friend's Dad

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into the compound. It is late at night and too da

e with my best frien

phone, an alarm beeps softly as the door

on the torchlight on my phone instead. The last thing I

om, move deeper into the house,

aw clenches, and my

ll not give those bas

I drop my bag on a nearby couch and walk over to the bar and s

are. No one is

I wear the dress and the place I

he would propose. I found the ring in his suit pocket last week but kept

ith an anonymous photo of my boyfriend and someone I once called a friend tangled

d my hands shook as

g nature and hatred for cheaters he would

d to be

my legs trembled in my hee

and punching in the room co

dened as the door opened, and my han

and clothes, were my boyfriend and my fr

sagged as the

d I not see it, and where was the man

and I struggled to

d to hate Julian and

sense. She wante

miss

d when they saw me, but I still cau

ures were not anonymous,

and pulled on his pan

tood there naked. "You were not supposed

t cry. Neither of

e, and popped it open without checking the label. I pressed it to my lips and

strong and sweet." I

s. They were rich and powerful enough to

y. It was just

before I was born and had not ac

ld have to fight for every

or the city, earned my degree

ream life because I thought J

gone, so I jump down from the stool. Th

e bottle again and stumble to

bric and it cradles me. It is

o my lips and gulp

and my face flushes. The alcohol d

d to forget. If three years of my life were

with Everly. I do

nt, or at least the ver

wrong, but it is

riend's father is wro

ie to myself because I was suppose

can not li

sensation sweeps over me. I close my eyes, my breath comes s

and cups one breast. "Fuck," I mutter

me wet. I push my g-string as

room. I slide the finger in and out, slow at first, t

gh and half plea. My heart race

ep. "Ohhh Norman," the nam

alled him. He is just Norman, the man who should

My finger speeds up and

y hand and drip

s and a shock r

bang cuts

ze. My hand yanks free in a

e hell

m echoes fr

pounds against my ribs, and

ayal and gave me the address and

somehow dialed Nova, who is on v

t," Nova had said. "Just go to the

e I

er, maybe a robber. Whoever is o

ht on shaky legs. From the bar room in

leave. I pray the stranger stays away. My fing

across the marble f

oward the hall and cl

one person. Tha

hind it. My weapon rises in the air. M

lock on my pale face and the object in m

om my lips as the gla

n. "Oh my God

efore I fall. Strong arms slide beneath my

s my lips as my han

uline and rich and laced wi

ly to the couch and pres

o his face creased with worry and conce

t of my imagination and

eady thrum of his heartbeat under my cheek. Heat pool

press myself agains

I do not know i