Rules of Her Sins (Their Sins #1) by A. Gorman Page A

me?”
    “You and your running. No way. I’m going back to sleep for a bit. Make sure you have your phone on you,” she says, yawning.
    “Yes, Laney Lou, I’ll have my phone.”
    She heads back to her bedroom. I put on running pants, a t-shirt, an amazing running jacket I picked up at REI that’s made completely of reflection material, and my trusty Nike shoes. I’m not taking my iPod. I’ll use the Spotify app on my phone.
    I go downstairs and grab some water, my ID, and money and head out the front door. The weather is nice for almost five twenty in the morning. I don’t want to run too long, but I want to run this nightmare out of my head. I decide to run to the north. The pricier homes are that way.
    I’ll run to the amazing house I’m in love with. The property was at least a half million when it was built, and it looks like a huge farmhouse, but it’s constructed with slate gray stone with white trim. The house is at least three times the size of my house. The yard is large and gated in and looks rather odd next to brick houses in the same area. I have never seen anyone coming or going. I figure a family with a bunch of children would live in a house this size, but it looks almost vacant.
    I live about five miles from there, so I’ll run there and then run back. I should feel good after a ten-mile run. If I do it quickly enough, I can stop on the corner for coffee and scones. Laney loves scones. Well, Laney loves anything that is food.
    Work It! is my favorite playlist to run to, and Drake’s All Me starts playing. I start stretching, and then I get to running. I put my mind on tonight’s date. Normally, I’m not anxious before a date, but I’m anxious and almost giddy. I can’t wait to meet Levi. I need to think of what I want to wear. We are going for dinner at The Four Seasons and hopefully staying in. He told me he would text me when he gets there. I can’t wait.
    I realize I ran almost five miles in thirty minutes. I keep running, and a few minutes later, I finally reach the house. I decide this is where I’m going to stretch before heading back.
    I hear a noise, look up, and see a car coming out of the garage. That car looks like Aedan’s car…wait, that is Aedan’s car. I thought he lived on the other side of the city. I try to find a bush or something to hide behind because I don’t want him to notice me. Wow, I know my father pays well, but I didn’t realize this well.
    Aedan’s gate opens and he pulls out onto the street and heads the way I’m getting ready to, so I wait a few minutes and head that way myself. Now I really wonder if he has a wife that he is hiding in that house. Checking my phone, I notice that I need to hurry up if I am going to stop and get breakfast goodness.
     
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    Aedan
     
    Shit. This is not how I wanted to start my morning. According to the GPS on Jesse’s phone, she’s not home, but here? How could she possibly know where I live? I made sure the only people that know where I live are McCoy and my security team.
    This house was a huge splurge. I invested my money well each time I got a bonus from McCoy. Soon I was sitting on a nice nest egg, and I scooped this house up since it was a foreclosure. I wanted a beautiful house for the family I hope to have one day, but if I don’t find Jesse, I’m not going to have to worry about it.
    I decide I’m going to loop around the block and drive back through my neighborhood. Maybe I need to reset the GPS. I have no clue. I drive past my house, headed in the same direction I went the first time. My GPS is saying she is about a mile up the road. What the hell? I drive slowly and that is when I see her. She’s running. Why is she running like she has someone or something chasing her at six in the morning?
    I am about to get out of the car and demand her to get in and let me take her home, but that would blow everything, and I can’t let that happen. I decide I’ll slowly follow her until she makes it back to