Haunting-Adeline

“Yup,” she says sassily, popping the P.
“Hmm,” I hum, my mind wandering to all the ways I’m going to teach
Max and his crew a lesson. I had hoped they would be smart enough to
leave Addie alone with her police reports disappearing. She listened and
didn’t report the hands to the police. In retrospect, Max has no reason to
target Addie.
Which means he had to have found out about the hands.
“That’s it? That’s all you have to say? Humm? Some pre y dangerous
men are a er me because of you, ya’ know? If I end up dead because of
your psycho c jealou—”
“Let me stop you there, baby. Because you seem to forget that I had a
gun in your pussy not too long ago. Did you think teaching you how to act
right is the only lesson I’m teaching with that?” She quiets. “If you think
low-life criminals are scarier than me, then I haven’t been clear enough,
have I? Next me you place them above me, I’ll be sending their heads to
your doorstep next.”
I crack my neck, the flare of anger residing now that Addie has closed
her pre y li le mouth. She’s star ng to learn, but I hope to God she never
stops talking back.
I do like to punish her.
“I-I don’t even know why I’m talking to you,” she finally stu ers out.
“You’re a sick, deranged individual. And I already made another police
report against you, asshole.”
Lies. The last report she made about me was the night she pretended to
call when I stood outside her house. She was a emp ng to scare me away,
but once I called her out on it, she followed through with the threat. My
girl doesn’t back down from a challenge.
I walked back to my car with a s ff cock and a smile on my face. I don’t
back down, either.
A bark of laughter bursts from my throat before I can stop it.
“That’s funny?”
“That’s sexy. But we both know that’s not true.”
I’ve been dele ng them since she started making them and sent a guy in
to destroy any physical evidence. The policemen will recall going to her
house, but the second they try to inves gate—if they ever got off their
asses, that is—they would have nothing to go off of. Not that stalking cases