Page 151 of A Lick and A Promise
What was going on?
Gemma offered, “Do you want a Perrier? We also have pop. And it’s early, but it’s Sunday, so we have beer and wine too.”
“Sadly, what I have to say won’t take too long, but thanks,” Jayden told her. He looked among us. “Which one of you has a stalker?”
I raised my hand.
He turned his attention to me. “Male or female?”
“My boyfriend’s”—wow, that was nice to say out loud—“ex. Female.”
“How serious is this?”
“She’s following me around and may be following Knox around.”
His brows rose. “Chambers is your boyfriend?”
I nodded.
“I see it,” he muttered. Then, in a normal voice, “Anything else?”
“Well, she told Knox about me sharing dinner with a mutual friend, who happens to be a guy, and there’s history there that only makes her doing that fucked up. But also, we missed it at the time, but she definitely didn’t just follow me to where I was going, and instead came inside and watched me, even if for just enough time to see who I was with so she could report it to Knox.”
Jayden nodded then began, “What I got to say isn’t going to be very helpful.”
I worried that was the case.
He carried on, “Preliminarily, log every instance you see her. Where. When. Dates. If you feel you’re in danger, do not go home, or to work, go to law enforcement. Keep everything, voicemails, emails, whatever. They may be needed as evidence for later, or to get a restraining order if you need one. And don’t engage with her.”
Uh-oh.
“Knox is talking to her right now,” I shared.
“Why?” he asked.
“To cop to some shit, apologize, in the hope she’ll understand what happened and move on.”
“I hate to say this, Luna,” he said, sounding exactly like he hated to say what he was about to say. “But I’ve never known an individual who would put the effort into following someone around lose interest in doing that. It is not healthy behavior to tail an ex, certainly not tailing his new girlfriend. Even if the break was emotional and extreme. But from what I know, Chambers wasn’t with this woman for very long, so this behavior is concerning.”
I was afraid of that.
“Make all social media private. Turn off geotagging.” His gaze swept the girls and came back to me. “Obviously, your crew knows about this, make sure all the men do too, your co-workers, bosses. None of them should be engaging with her either, and they can report anything they might see so you can log it.”
I nodded.
“This is one of those situations where LEOs can be informed of an issue, and our hands are tied in doing anything about it unless something tips, it gets worse or the harassment goes on for an extended period of time. But if you see her at your place of business, close to your apartment, somewhere you are it’s not a coincidence she’s there too, you call me. If I’m close, I’ll go have a word with her. If I’m not, I’ll get a bud in uniform to do it.”
“That’d be super cool, Jayden,” I said.
“You see her again, even one more time, in one of those instances I just named, you do more than call me. You come in and report it. You might need it on record,” he warned.
“Gotcha.”
“Chambers has to have this chat, I get it,” he went on. “But after it, he backs off. She got broken up with. It was explained. She has no reason to have anything else to do with him.”
“I’ll tell him that.”
“And again, log all of this, what’s happened, and anything that might happen. To both of you.”
