Chapter 13
Elias never thought a girl would be his demise. But now he sat staring at his phone, trying to force it to alert him of a message from Tara. I’m going mad. This little slip of a girl whom he barely knew was slowly bringing him to his knees. The damn phone simply stared back with all the interaction of a dark screen.
It had been two days since he’d left Tara’s house in the pouring rain. Two days without any responses to his texts. And like he’d promised, he’d shown back up on her doorstep both nights, but she refused to answer the door. Thankfully, her foster mom hadn’t been home. She’d probably have called the police on him for stalking Tara. And she wouldn’t be wrong. Everywhere Tara went, Elias was there, in the shadows, watching her, protecting her. Because he wasn’t the on
