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Pure Obsession (Finn) - Chapter Three
Date: 10/2/2014, Categories: Reluctance, Author: SITTING, Rating: 23, Source: LushStories
“Strange, don’t you think?” I shook my head. “I’m sorry? What’s strange?” “It’s strange that he’d leave everything so easily accessible.” “Well, the door was locked.” I shrugged. “I don’t know. I just clean.” Vincent glanced at me. I knew he wasn’t stupid and yet there was nothing outrageous in my story. Everything I’d told him was believable. “Don’t tell anyone about this,” he said, and he shut the drawer. “Nobody, okay? Not even Alessandra.” His eyes met mine; dark, knowing and vaguely threatening, and then he strode out of the room and disappeared. I stared after him, wondering what he knew. How could he know anything? It was impossible and yet the way he said it, the way he looked at me, it made me feel guilty. What could he know? Maybe he’d seen us saying hello. Maybe he saw us leave together at the NYE party. That must be it. He probably suspected something had happened between us. That was all it could be, surely. Still, it made me uneasy. I locked the door to Daniel’s dressing room, resolving to stay out of Vincent’s way as much as I could. *** The hours wore on, without further excitement. I wiped down mirrors, cleaned windows, bleached toilets, mopped floors and waited for the day to come to an end. Daniel was nowhere to be seen. I wondered what had happened, whether Vincent had confronted him. I’d done the damage; I just had to wait for the fallout. The waiting annoyed me though. I hated waiting. But I got wind of events before I expected. I was in two minds about ...