Following You Home (He's Been Watching #5)

Her car broke down seven times in seven months. She told herself she had bad luck.

She had a mechanic.

Sam Deluca knows which window is hers. He knows the route she takes when it's dark, the Thursday habits she thinks no one sees, what her hands do when she believes she's alone. He's watched from the alley more nights than he'll admit. He put the tracker in her wheel well himself. He's been inside her car so many times he took something small from the cupholder and kept it in his jacket, close, for months.

He planned every breakdown. He has been very, very patient.

Tonight, the timing belt finally goes — on an empty highway, eight miles from anywhere, exactly where he planned it. And when the familiar truck pulls up behind her, Mae Okonkwo feels relief before she feels anything else.

That's the part she'll have to live with.

Because the worst thing isn't the notebooks, or the log, or the green light blinking on the tracker she was never supposed to find. The worst thing is what her body does when she learns how long he's been watching — and that when he tells her he won't stop, every part of her that should run leans in instead.

He's not going to apologize for any of it. He's not going to pretend he'll ever quit.

And she's going to keep coming back anyway.

Dark obsessive romance. A stalker mechanic who falls first and never lets go. Dubious consent, body-betrayal heat, and a heroine who finds out everything — and chooses the dark. Full-length explicit novella. HEA with an epilogue. Reader discretion advised.