Renee finally got a proper look at the man on her sofa… it was her father. The sheer sight of him made her blood boil. The fact that he thought he could break into her place like this, not once but twice, was unbelievable.
“Oh, you f*****g arsehole. Can you stop breaking into my apartment?” she bellowed as she stormed inside.
He sat up, rubbing his eyes, blinking hard before he finally realised it was Renee standing there.
“Sorry, monkey. This time, I really had no choice. Ricardo found me; he would have killed me, too, if I hadn’t jumped out the window and made a run for it in the dead of night. I had to go somewhere, and honestly, after what I saw, I needed to check you were still alive,” he said, barely awake.
She dropped her keys on the counter with a loud clatter. “Still alive? Wh
