Caged by His Twisted Love novel · Chapter 17 of 24
Chapter 17: The Door
The first snow came five weeks after the Mass, on a night when I finally stopped pretending.
Orla wanted the phone and the ledger kept shut until the table, so Declan would have no warning and no time to run.
So we waited, and I paced the third floor of Ronan's house.
At ten o'clock I came down the stairs in my coat.
The man on the landing looked up from his paperback.
Ronan stood at the bottom of the stairs with a glass in his hand.
Ronan nodded once.
The man went back to his book.
I walked past him to the black street door and put my palm flat against the wood.
"Open it," I said.
"Where are you going?"
"Nowhere. Open it anyway."
He set down the glass.
He crossed the hall and stopped an arm's length away, the way he had on the loading dock the first night.
"It takes my key or my thumb," he said.
"I know what it takes."
"You hate the lock."
"I hate that I notice it," I said. "Every time I walk past it, I feel it on the back of my neck."
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