Unleashed (A Bad Boy Stepbrother Romance) (43 page)

What the hell?

I slow the car down, certain that I’m looking at the front door to Cassie’s house… left open. It’s not wide open, but it is ajar, and inside it’s dark.

I was passing through, on my way to the gym for a late-night workout, and decided to take a more scenic route, if only to indulge my own thoughts and desires.

I haven’t been able to stop thinking about Cassie for a long time, but after our afternoon on the beach, after she came to my fight, she dominates every waking moment of my mind.

I barely caught the ajar door. In the darkness, I might have missed it if I hadn’t known it was Cassie’s house.

But it is her house, and I didn’t miss it. The lights are all off in the house, so why is the door open? Alarm bells start to go off in my head.

It’s been a long time since families left their doors unlocked in this town.

I stop the car, and get out, and walk around the fence of the house. From the back garden, I can see the light on in one of the bedrooms, but nowhere else. I don’t see any moving shadows, nor do I hear any sounds.

Truthfully, she might have just forgotten to close the door. But I know that Cassie is here all alone, that her dad hasn’t come back from Vegas yet.

“Fuck it,” I growl. It’s wrong, and I shouldn’t walk into the house, I should just close the door. But the thought that there might be someone in there burgling the place is a risk I’m not willing to take.

Not with her, anyway.