Coming Back Together Again

ONE YEAR AFTER

(AUTHOR’S POV)

“Don’t look Elyse, but I think we’re being stalked.”

Claire could have used a more subtle and less terrifying word instead--something along the lines of ‘followed’ but judging by how long she’s noticed the presence of strange men around them, no other word felt more right than that.

Elyse turned to look anyway and the men, all scattered around the restaurant that the young women were eating at, looked away immediately and tried to hide themselves from her eyes. A number of them did a terrible job at it, making it so obvious that they were caught looking at the women.

“I told you not to look!” Claire whispered. Her hazel eyes flamed as she stared at Elyse. Elyse merely turned back to look at Claire with a shrug of her shoulders. She thought to herself, once again, her brother has hired morons who can’t even do their job right to watch her and the woman he was still pinning after.

“Relax. They’re just…I don’t know, admiring how beautiful we are or something