Addiction

Chapter 26

Chapter 26

Having nothing to do all day sounds like a dream, right? Not so when you’re alternatively thinking about your cheating ex and the femme fatale that he’d done the dirty deed with. For hours, Sophie obsessed, wondering where she’d gone wrong, and what signs she’d missed. True, Taylor had been attending a lot of meetings that went nowhere recently, but that was nothing new. He’d been secretive though, and taking showers every night before climbing into their bed, as well as first thing in the morning, and that definitely was new. He must have been meeting the tramp after work, and then washing the smell of s*x off him before she could get a whiff.

“Ugh,” she sighed. A girl could go mad wondering. She decided to take herself to the quiet beach behind the house. Opening the giant glass doors that made up the entire back wall of the building, she reveled in the fresh breeze coming off the ocean. It was shaping up to be a beautiful dry day, and she thought a walk on the beach sounded like just the thing to clear her head.

There were worse ways to spend her vacation time than walking along a sandy beach at her brother’s house. She regretted the fact that she’d spent her entire over-time pay last month on a week in a fancy hotel in the country as a surprise for Taylor's upcoming birthday.. She wondered if she could just rent out her own house for a while and stay here. Never running into either of them again so long as she lived sounded just about right to her. At twenty five, she should have more in her life than a house she couldn't go back to, a room in her brother’s place and a bag of clothing.

Taking the time to pack her clothes away neatly in the closet, she bemoaned the fact that she'd invested in the creep's company. Her mind wandered and she began to think of starting over, starting fresh somewhere new. But where? Definitely somewhere in the city, she decided. Away from everything.

She finished unpacking her clothes and decided to clean the kitchen before spending her day with the scent of the salt-water and the feel of the brisk wind in her hair. She wondered if Logan had any decent books to pass the time with. All she'd seemed to bring with her were design books.

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