All Chapters of Caught In The Middle: Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

 Reese returned home to find Cory’s pickup truck parked out front. As he drove his car into his reserved slot he saw Cory get out and walk up to him.“Why are you here again, this is becoming a habit I don’t like.” Reese asked him with a surly tone.“How is she?” Cory asked, instead of answering.Reese clucked his tongue while locking his car. “You better come inside I guess.”Cory grinned and followed Reese through the entrance security gate and into the communal pool area, around the pool to his own apartment and he unlocked the large slider that was his informal front door. There was a formal front door down a path on the other side of the complex from the street but he never used it and neither did his friends.Cory noticed there were two guys already lounging by the pool and one of the other residents was looking out their windows at them with a sour look on their face. Reese did a h

Emma entered the Student Executive Office with a strange trepidation having no idea why she was being summoned first thing on a Monday morning. She knew she hadn’t done anything to warrant this and she was nervous about having to face Reese O’Shea noticing he was alone in the room.Reese smiled as she entered and stood up from the computer desk, indicating for her to sit on the couches.“Emma Johnson, glad you could come and see me. Please sit down, make yourself comfortable, I’m just wanting to have a little bit of a personal chat with you. You don’t mind, do you?”He gave her a sexy smile as he sat down in the arm chair that faced side on to the couch and crossed his legs exuding a calm friendly manner that seemed to work on putting Emma at ease.“Oh, okay…whew! I thought for a minute I was in trouble.” She giggled nervously as she sat down, pulling her skirt down as much as she could to cover her t

The electronic disc on the table suddenly went off between them causing Quinn to jump out of her skin and reel backwards.“Easy babe!” Reese’s fingers went to the back of her neck again, catching her and keeping her close. She winced as his fingers dug in a little too strongly. He instantly let go, standing up and stepping to her side and sweeping her hair back. “Fuck, sorry, did I hurt you?”“No, stop!” Quinn cried out.Too late…Reese stood staring at the black bruises on the back of her neck, his face dropping into a grim and deadly expression.“Who the fuck did this?”“Stop!” Quinn pushed him away, sweeping her hair back over her shoulders to cover it and looking around the café embarrassed to see it half full of people and some of them staring and gossiping about them. “Not here.”“Then let’s go somewhere to talk…”

Quinn was shocked at the swanky room Antonio led her into for the charity auction. The five star hotel that was hosting it was definitely for the uber rich and she could feel the difference between this group of people and the people at the last soirèe. These people were elegant and refined and exuded class. Quinn gripped Antonio’s arm nervously.He glanced down at her with an amused smile. “Don’t worry, petalo, these people are pussycats…we are here to rub shoulders and shake hands and be seen in esteemed legal company.”She relaxed a bit and when the waitress came round with flutes of champagne she took one, taking a heavy sip.“Take it easy…” Antonio warned. He knew she was no good with alcohol and bubbles tended to go straight to her head. Besides, she was technically underage, no matter how grown up and sexy she looked in that dress.A man dressed in a fine three piece suit came up to Antonio and shook his hand. “Mr Ferrante, I’m glad you could make it…”“It was short notice, but

  Friday was a nervous day for Quinn as she tried to keep her head down and not be found by Reese. She met Cory during her break in classes for lunch and they sat in the café Artifice.“So you were right about being home late…I saw your message this morning, I fell asleep.” Cory said sheepishly. She hadn’t been dropped home till Antonio was done with her at 2am.“I told you…”“So where did you go, on a date?” He asked coyly.She laughed. “You’re not smooth…I was attending a charity auction with my brother.”“Not the one for Cancer treatments in Africa?”Quinn startled. “Yeah…”“Damn, I was supposed to go to that…wait, Reese was there wasn’t he?”Quinn frowned with remorse. “Yeah, I saw him there…but couldn’t talk to him.”“