You Shouldn't Have Come Here

by Jeneva Rose

pink scar above his left eyebrow. It was an inch in length, and the color revealed it was new.

Grace

Chracter

Calvin Wells,

Character

“I’ll treat you so good, you won’t want to leave. That’s my motto,”

A sinking feeling hit me in my gut,

“Just work stuff for emergencies only. If I don’t put it out of sight, I’ll find myself replying to emails and taking calls, and I am here to relax, not work.”

basement

“What’s this?” she said, gesturing to a door with a padlock on it. “Oh, that goes down to the basement. It’s off-limits.

But I wasn’t ready to chase after another girl. It was too soon.

I found several pairs of women’s underwear and a sports bra. They were nice brands:

No Service. I felt a twinge in the pit of my stomach and swallowed hard.

“That would be my ex, Lisa.”

Character

she’s dead,”

Ex gf lisa is dead?

“Car accident .

landline

It was a spark like when you jump-start a car.

“Key for the house.

had seen that look before. I couldn’t place it but I knew I liked it.

But not everything was meant to be free. Some things had to be kept in cages.

brother

Character

girlfriend?”

Betty—she’s almost like a second mom.

Character

Betty was still staring at me through the window of her boutique, almost smiling like she knew I was in deep shit. And that’s when it hit me. I had never told her my name.

The sound of a woman screaming pulled me from my sleep. I

She had her catch of the day, and I had mine. Grace just didn’t know it yet. She was my catch.

See a bloody yolk? It means you’re gonna die.

A high-pitched scream stole my attention. I knew it was Grace.

smile that could only best be described as sinister.

had in the pit of my stomach—the one that tells you something is very wrong.

Perhaps he wasn’t as true to his word as I thought he was. You never really know a person.

I reminded myself to ask him more about his past and his family. It felt like he was hiding something, something sinister or shameful.

I’d take care of Grace every day of my life if

she’d let me and even if she wouldn’t.

“I’m following up on a missing person’s report for a woman by the name of Briana Becker. Her sister from Michigan reported her missing early this afternoon. Apparently, she was traveling alone on a cross-country road trip, and they expected her home three days ago but hadn’t heard from her in over two weeks.”

Briana’s.

Missing women

Joe’s

Calvin's Brother

He seemed like a man with a guilty conscience.

I think Grace being here made him think we could do brotherly things again, that we could move forward, put the past in the past, as they say.

But it left me wondering what else he was lying about.

But the question was, how far would she go to protect it, and what would she do if she couldn’t?

“But . . . we slept together.”