Without Boundaries by Cj Azevedo Read Free Book Online Page A

my jaw clenched. I take a deep breath and silently wait for his all too familiar anger to rush through my ear buds.
“We’ll discuss this later. I need to go.” He hangs up, just like that.
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After that cheerful conversation with my boyfriend whom I should be missing by now but am not, I go home and get ready for work early. While getting ready I decide I will email Kali and see if I can tag along to the Hamptons with her. She had mentioned last weekend that she and a few other people were going to her family home over there for a few days. It’s exactly what I need. She has no ties to Hollister, I love the Hamptons, and it gets me the heck out of here. I think briefly that I should fly back home and see my dad but dismiss that idea quickly. He would know there was something wrong the second he laid eyes on me and I don’t lie, especially to him. He has always expressed his concern for Hollister, he has only met him once, but when I moved in with him so quickly I thought my dad was going to cut me out of his life permanently. For one, he is old fashioned in the sense that one should be married before moving in. For two, Hollister did not impress him the one time he did meet him. He said he was too cocky for his own good, he was a mama’s boy, and that’s never a good trait in a man. Then the final straw is that he had always come up with an excuse to not go back to California to my dad’s place each time I went. My dad cannot find one single nice thing to say about him. My grandma drilled into his head growing up that, ‘If you have nothing nice to say then say nothing at all,’ so he has chosen to leave anything Hollister out of our conversations. Which is fine by me since the longer I’m with him the harder it is to defend him.
I email Kali as soon as I get to the office before I can change my mind.
              Hey Kali,
              Any chance I can tag along to the Hamptons with you this weekend? I need to get out of my condo and the city as soon as possible; it’s been a hectic few days and its only freakin’ Tuesday morning. Lemme know when you can. Thanks!
Yours truly,
One stressed out Bailey
I get up to file some papers from yesterday and my computer dings immediately.
Yaaay!! I was really hoping you would want to come! Talon doesn’t have a game this weekend so he’s going up tomorrow morning and Hunter and I are leaving early Thursday morning. Alan is driving up after work on Friday so if you can’t take off work you can just jump in with him. I hope everything’s okay with you Bailey!
-Kali
Thursday works perfectly! Thanks so much Kali, I’ll see you then, just send me a text when you think you’ll be by to pick me up so I can be ready.
The rest of the day drags on slowly and I don’t hear from Hollister, which doesn’t surprise me at all. Before I head home for the night I call and order Italian for delivery to the condo. I’m not even close to being in the mood to cook and then clean up after myself.
When I unlock the front door, I notice the living room lamp is on and I know I did not leave that on this morning. My heart rate starts to pick up and I look around for something, or maybe someone, I don’t know. I take another step inside and set down my things on the entryway console and keep my eyes peeled for anything out of place. I see nothing, then I hear footsteps coming from the hall and I freeze. Wide eyed and shaking, half expecting a crazed burglar to come lunging at me, instead I find Hollister. I begin to relax and let out the breath I was holding for fear of being heard, and then he speaks.
“Where have you been Bailey? It’s nearly eight o’clock.” His voice is low and menacing. He has that dark look to his eyes and I can tell he is attempting to keep control over his voice.
“I worked late tonight, what are you doing here? I thought you were staying another week.” My voice comes out way shakier than I would have liked.
“That was the