Devious by Aria Declan Read Free Book Online

hear was Johnny watching The Tonight Show With Jay Leno . I went into the clean bathroom and decided I would take a bath instead of a shower.
    As the warm water ran, I checked my phone for any missed calls from Mama—but she did not call me. I put my ear-buds in so I could listen to music through my cell phone and got undressed. The tub was nearly full and the bubbles were about to spill over. So, I got inside and my body felt like a cloud.
    I knew Tyler went to the bar and told all the men that I made a move on him again. Then, I would have all these overage men hitting on me in the morning. If I knew better, I should have left Tyler years ago—well, more like when I was fifteen. I should have known then that he was trouble—back then, he was a nineteen year old wanting young meat like me.
    The beginning of our relationship was like any great love story. He bought me cute gifts, complemented me, and even gave me diamonds. But, then the complements stopped, and the rude nagging begun. He would tell me that I was getting fat, and not take me out to eat. He would ask me why I was not like all the other women—but I was a teenager; developing and barely understanding life. He wanted me to be bad like his other friend's girlfriends. They would go to jail for their man, steal for their man, and go smoke with their man.
    I did not know what his definition of “bad” was, because those “women” were the definition of ignorance. I had my fair share of ignorance, but I was way above them—academically and mentally.
    As my thoughts went haywire, I dozed off in the soothing water. The only way I knew I did was because I awoke in the morning in my bed.
    I squinted my eyes from the beaming sun. I waited a few minutes to gather all my energy that I would need for the entire day.
    I stretched and was amazed that I had fresh clean clothes on—clothes that were at my home. I got out of bed, searching the home for Christian or Johnny. No one was around, but I could hear lots of voices that sounded far away.
    I rushed to the front door, where once again nearly the entire town was standing—someone must have been killed again. My heart dropped as I thought about Christian, who was nowhere around. I ran to the crowd and everyone was staring at me.
    “Leanna!” yelled Johnny. “Why don't you come over here with me!”
    “What happened? Is Christian okay? Did someone die?” I cried as I tried to walk, but he was holding me back. “Talk to me, Johnny!”
    The screams of multiple people made me want to know why, but no one was telling me anything. I soon noticed the crowd led to my clean lawn. My mind went into panic mode as I thought about all the possibilities.
    My heart skipped a beat as I saw Christian running to me, “I'm glad you are okay.” He said as he hugged me. “I'm sorry.”
    “Honey, what happened?” I said. “I was so worried about you!”
    “Let's go back to the house, okay? Come on,” he said as he pulled me away from the scene.
    “NO!” I yelled. “I want to know what happened!”
    “You really want to know?” he said.
    “YES!”
    “Tyler died.”
    I paused in disbelief. “Are you serious?”
    “Yes, his body was discovered on your lawn just like the others. That's why I don't want you going over there. Come inside, okay?”
    Words could not explain how guilty I felt. I was so angry with him, but I did not want someone mad at me to die like that. I was going to talk to him that day, but I was too late. “Did you kill him?” I asked as Tyler pulled me to walk away from the scene.
    “Leanna, are you serious?” he laughed. “Oh shit, you're serious.”
    “I've been worrying about you since we met. I’ve never seen you in this town until that one day, then you have all these guns. And apparently all of them were killed with guns. And I’m sure you have some connection with the black market to sell clean blood. I also know you were really pissed off last night because he hurt me.”
    “I did not