Her Obsession (by Sheridan Hartin) novel Chapter 12

In Deep

And you believe her?” Liam asked carefully.

I didn’t answer right away. I rubbed my hand over my face, then looked him dead in the eye. “Yeah. I do.”

He nodded once, accepting that without question. That’s why I trusted him.

“She gave us files, I went on, waving toward the screen Nico was still combing through. “Names, accounts, transfers. She’s been tracking our rat from the outside. Found trails we didn’t even know to look for. She’s been watching me, Liam. Not just this week. Not just this year. For a long time.”

Liam frowned. “How long?”

I shook my head. “No clue. But the way she talked to me, the way she knew me… It wasn’t new. It wasn’t surface-level either. She knows my habits. My fucking expressions. The angle of my jaw when I’m mad. She knew exactly when I was about to cut the feed, she beat me to it.”

“She said anything about who she is?” Liam asked, quiet now. This part mattered.

“No.” I murmured. “But I’ve been playing her voice back in my head. Every word, every intonation. There’s something familiar about it, Liam. Like I’ve heard it before. Or maybe dreamed it, I don’t know. But it’s not a stranger’s voice. Not to me.”

Liam’s brows furrowed. “Think you knew her once?”

“Maybe,” I said. “Or maybe I just should’ve. Either way… she’s in this now. She made contact. That changes everything.”

“She said anything else?” Liam asked, though I could already see the gears turning in his head.

I hesitated. Then smirked faintly, because I couldn’t not hear her in my ears again.

“She told me to put her cameras back.”

Liam blinked. “You’re joking.”

“I’m not.”

“You put them back?”

“Every last one.”

He let out a low whistle. “You’re in deep, brother.”

“I’ve been in deep,” I said quietly. “But now? Now I think I might be drowning.”

Burn Target.

Sage