All Chapters of Stuck With Him: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

A little later Kim was sitting at the desk in the study and, frustrated, propped her head in her hands.The moment Charlie had given her the job, she had already known it would be anything but a pleasure, but now she has not been here for a day and her worst expectations were already exceeded.Not only did Luke mostly behave exactly as she had feared, no, to make matters worse, she now found that he still had the same effect on her as he had then. It was with horror that she realized that after this short period of time feelings were awakened in her that she had successfully suppressed for a long time.And as if that wasn't enough, his boys had nothing better to do than keep making suggestive comments all the time. How should she be able to take care of her work in peace?She would have loved to pack her things on the spot and go home, would have loved to leave Luke and everything that had to do with him far behind. But she knew that was out of the questi

Kim stared at the man who had stepped away from her again and put on a disinterested face.Luke ended his call and came back to them."Okay, so let's talk thingsthrough now." He sat on the couch, picked up his diary, and motioned for Kim to join him. Still completely stunned, Kim sat down next to him while Austin took a seat across from them in the armchair and also took a calendar out of his pocket."Since you've canceled quite a few appointments for the near future, I don't have a lot new for you right now," Austin said with an annoyed undertone.“You know very well that I took the time off to work on my new album and recharge my batteries. The tour was pretty stressful, and I need a bit of rest. "" Yeah, sure, "the manager muttered ironically," how it looks, in a few weeks the Grammy Awards are in Paris, for which you are nominated - Would you have the kindness to show up there? ”Luke nodded. Dering gave him the exac

A few days went by without any more letters or anything happening.Kim had called Charlie again briefly that afternoon, who could only advise her to wait and keep an eye on Luke. Checking the names hadn't revealed anything suspicious so far, and as expected, no usable traces had been found on the envelopes either, so Kim sighed and accepted her fate and followed Luke every step of the way. She had to listen to one or two amused comments from him now and then, but he seemed to be slowly accepting her presence and she tried not to take his remarks too seriously.They had breakfast together every morning, then went jogging together and then they mostly went to the studio, where Luke and the boys continued to work on his new album, and Kim sat quietly in the armchair, reading a book or just listening.Luke was often alone in the studio, trying out different melodies on his guitar and writing down dozen of sheets of music without noticing Kim, who watched and listene

Tense Kim drove the car through the night streets of Sunville in the direction of the cemetery."I'll be right there," she said into the microphone, and seconds later heard Tom's voice in her ear."Okay, we're ready."She parked the car in front of the entrance, got out, and took the bag from the back seat.She looked around examiningly, there was no one to be seen far and wide.It was a moonless night, and she was pleased to see that the cemetery was in deep darkness, so it wouldn't be easy to see that she wasn't Luke.She walked slowly through the gate, then stopped hesitantly."Stay on the main path so we can see you," Tom instructed.Kim followed his request, took small steps forward, constantly looking around in all directions.After a few minutes the crypt came into view, gloomy and threatening it loomed in the darkness before her."Not too close, otherwise we won't have a view," came the earphone again.

When Kim woke up the next day, it was already late morning. The previous evening's events flashed back to her immediately and she began to brood.She didn't regret that she'd acted against Tom's instructions and walked around the crypt instead of disappearing. The area would certainly have been thoroughly searched the next day, but who knows whether the Walkman would still have been there. She only quarreled with the fact that she had made the suggestion that she should go to the cemetery in Luke's place, she still had the dull suspicion that someone in the house had noticed something."Maybe it would have been better if Luke had gone himself," she thought with discomfort.But the fear that something might have happened to him then immediately made this thought disappear again. No, it was good that she had tried, since she was still not sure whether the stranger was really after money, she might have prevented something worse.While she was still sitting