Chapter 27. Ruined

Reese

I asked Enzo to bring me back home, so I was here again at my house, pulling my luggage out, when I heard a car pull up with a loud screech of brakes, followed by the slamming open and closing of a car door.

My eyes narrowed when I saw Troy get out of his car.

“Reese!” he called out, but I didn’t pay attention to him as I went on getting my stuff out of the house. “Reese, take back what you said in the office! I want you to tell them that you were lying!”

“You wish!” I scoffed, rolling my eyes at him.

He grabbed my shoulders and started shaking them. He was staring at me with those piercing eyes that had me enthralled from the moment I laid eyes on them, but now they were making me terrified of him.

“No.” I swatted his arms away, shoving him aside, and staring back at him with a far more intense intensity.

“I can’t lose my job, Reese!” he yelled, his face contorted in fury. “I recently got promoted at my job!”

I gulped, br