Boring and lonely

SEVEN YEARS LATER

I hadn't seen or heard a single word from Asher Creed in seven years. Seven long, grueling, lonely years, and when Harper or her mom would bring him up, I politely asked them to change the subject. So, of course, after asking them a few times they learned that Asher was still a touchy subject around me so they stopped talking about him altogether.

The only way I knew anything about him and his life was over the internet. I didn't get much other than the professional photo's from his skateboarding career and a few shots from the paparazzi. Asher kept his life a secret. He didn't even have social media. He was like a ghost in the celebrity world. Nobody even knew where he came from, other than his managers and agents, of course, but his fans were clueless about the details of his life.

I tortured myself quite often when I sat in my office all alone in the evening hours and searched for Asher online. At this very moment, I was staring at the most recent photo the papara