All Chapters of PROMISE ME, JAKE: Chapter 61 - Chapter 70

~Bobbie~Entangled with Zach’s figure in my bed, sleep never came, even with the comfort of having him beside me. It’s four in the morning, the dawn is nearly breaking. I’m not yet ready to face the world.The soft snores coming from the boy who allowed me to drench his tee with my tears are the only sound I wanted to focus on. Like the way his breath fans my skin. He made it a habit to snuggle his nose on the junction of my neck and shoulder, knowing that particular spot sends goosebumps through my entire body. I poured all my attention to him, my emotions - anger, frustration, heartbreak. It’s wrong… I know that; Zach knows it, that I could never be his until I move on from Jake. Yet he’s here - he was always here.Carefully, I detangled from his huge figure and changed into my

MATURE CONTENT ADVISORY. THIS CHAPTER AND THE FOLLOWING ONES AFTER THIS DEPICTS GRAPHIC VIOLENCE, TRIGGER THEMES THAT MIGHT NOT BE SUITABLE FOR ALL READERS. READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.~Bobbie~I needed a girl’s night, at least that was the idea when my friends convinced me to have a sleepover at my place after work.Tina sprawled herself over my bed while Mel and Candice fought like kids over the movie we would be watching. I saved myself from danger by laying on my stomach beside Tina, away from the two toddlers fighting, browsing her social media account. A picture took my interest, and I asked her to let me see it. I haven’t gone online in a long while and it surprised me to see that Zach’s profile was a picture of the two of us. The one on Valentine’s Day as we danced, almost hugging e

~Zach~Sheriff Montes will inform Principal Brown of the incident. Bobbie was clear about her request for them to handle this discreetly. I can understand why she wanted it. This news will attract too much attention towards her. However, if it was up to me, I’d put a bounty on her assailants to capture them quickly.Damien and Damon were still deep in their conversation with the officer. Both men were determined to catch whoever did this to Bobbie when she asked Dr. Vivian if she could take that much-needed shower. She stood and excused herself, headed to a room at the end of the beach house’s extensive hallway in silence.I trailed behind her without a word, questions clouding my head. My curiosity about her relationship with these people is an unimportant matter.

~Bobbie~Nonna allowed me to play in her garden when I promised not to pick flowers like yesterday. All my cousins have gone with their parents. Matt was the last to leave four nights ago. He didn’t want to go, but I told him I’ll be a brave girl and we’ll see each other soon.I miss them; I miss us playing hide and seek in Nonna’s pretty bushes.I looked side by side, fiddling with my pink tutu, like what Barbie is wearing, looking for any sight of Nonna. The gardenias are too pretty to let it sit in the garden. It’s tempting me to take it to my room, keep it pressed between the encyclopedia pages.Just one, I promised with crossed fingers behind my back when I was talking to Nonna over breakfast.

~Jake~With a gun pressed on my back, the Russian who caught me kept pushing me forward through the forest. I tried to stand my ground when I stepped out of the car, but he didn’t come alone. Another man let his presence known, and I earned a busted lip, black eyes, a searing pain in my ribs, and they took the gun Jack handed to me. I broke a bone or two but I made sure that I’ll leave a mark on them as well.As we reached a dimly-lit pathway, ending the painful stroll in the forest with my hands cuffed behind my back, I got a glimpse of a house that’s completely shielded with thick vegetation.If my calculation is correct, the sun will be up in an hour or two and the authorities will arrive before that. I just hope that they’d find the disturbed path the three of us took from the car to this