Her Collateral Bride: A Lesbian Age Gap Romance

sounded like “let’s go,” and jangled his car keys to reinforce

the bark of sound.

Haley couldn’t believe her luck. She ran upstairs to get her

sneakers and her purse, as well as her phone. That hadn’t been

taken away, and she fired off texts to her friends while she was

in her room. She came back down wearing a huge smile,

which was in direct contrast to Snake’s scowl.

He wore that scowl all the way to the mall, driving the black

sedan that Claire had produced out of nowhere for him to

chauffeur her around in.

“You’re coming with me?” she asked sweetly after Snake

parked in the underground mall parkade.

“Yes.”

“Okay, good. I’m going for tampons first. You, uh, don’t

have to come down the aisle with me or anything. Just wait by

the front door of the store.”

He actually seemed relieved by that, and for a second,

Haley felt bad about the deception. She’d been to the mall

countless times before and knew the store actually had three

doors. The main entrance and exit and another on the second

floor that opened up to the mall. She’d make her escape there.

As soon as she entered the store, she raced around to the

pharmacy side, and then, when she was sure Snake wasn’t able

to see her, she dashed straight down and past other aisles,

dodging people here and there, until she found the escalator

for the second floor. She went up, keeping a low profile,

glancing over her shoulder the whole time. When she was at

the exit and she spotted her friends waiting for her, she let out

a sigh of relief for the first time in a week.

Only five months and three weeks to go. Fuck. I’m never