LIA
My heart is racing, pumping adrenaline through my blood at a breakneck speed. It takes me a minute to realize that the man standing in the door is Beck, my stepdad. Or at least he was my stepdad until he divorced Mom. Either way, he looks pissed to find me here.
“Mom said she cleared it with you, that I could stay here for the weekend.”
I needed some time away. I needed to be alone and some place quiet. What I really need is to figure out what the hell I want to do and how I’m going to handle things when I see Jake again. I shake thoughts of my boyfriend — my ex-boyfriend — from my head and yank the towel from where I flung it over the glass shower enclosure.
“Your mom didn’t clear anything with me.”
“She told me… well, she told me she would. She was sure you’d be okay with it. I
