Total pages in book: 44
Estimated words: 39740 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 199(@200wpm)___ 159(@250wpm)___ 132(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 39740 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 199(@200wpm)___ 159(@250wpm)___ 132(@300wpm)
I started to reach for her, but she brushed me off. “Nope, we’ve got work to do, mister. Now, here’s how we’re going to string her along. I know the one thing she wants more than anything is recognition from my grandmother; I also know she’ll never get it. But there’s no reason we can’t use that need against her.”
“How?”
“I’ll show you.” An hour later, I was the one left stunned.
“Why do I get the feeling that you’re better at this revenge thing than I am? Talk about diabolical.” She smirked and genuflected as if receiving an award.
We didn’t sleep together, but we slept together that night. It was the first time I’d slept in a bed next to a female and because it was her, I had one of the best night’s sleep I’d had in a while. We didn’t even kiss because I didn’t want to risk it. We just held each other and slept as comfortably as if we’d been doing it forever.
I didn’t want to make love to her for the first time after a night like that. I wanted everything to be perfect for both of us. I hadn’t asked her about her past relationships because I didn’t think I needed to know, even though each time I imagine her with someone else, I get pissed, and knots start to form in my lower gut.
I just keep telling myself that she’s mine now, and that’s all that matters. Besides, I don’t see in her any of the things I saw in her sister. I woke during the night thinking how weird life is sometimes. Why is it that I’d met the other one and not her when we were younger? And why had fate brought us together now?
I drew her in closer and she sighed in her sleep and rubbed her nose into my chest like a little kitten, which made me smile. The plan she’d come up with was going to make my revenge even better than I’d planned, and I was already looking forward to the fallout, which wouldn’t be for another four or five years at least, but getting there promised to be fun.
As long as I no longer have to be close to Lacey, which, if everything goes the way we want, won’t happen. I know her parents don’t care that she’s screwing around on me; as long as I toe their line, they’ll keep me saddled with that hag, but Lily’s suggestion of using a connection to her grandparents as leverage is genius.
The next day, I called Lacey, and I could tell from the way she acted before I even spoke that she thought she still had some kind of control over me and our situation. “I’m coming to your campus this weekend.”
“Uh, no, no, why don’t we meet at home?”
“I wasn’t planning to go that far this weekend. I have finals, but I need to see you. It’s important.” I finally got her to meet me halfway, which she claimed would be a great weekend getaway.
I didn’t let on that I knew why she didn’t want me near her campus. While I was going to meet her, Lily was going to take care of the other part of our plan, so I set out to meet Lacey, hoping that it would be the last time I’d have to do this, at least for a while.
I didn’t realize that I’d grown to hate Lacey over time, I mean really hate, even more than I despised her parents and mine. But when she came running to meet me with a knowing smile on her face, I almost kicked her away from me.
It was only my hunger for revenge that helped me stay the course. I did smile at her, but behind that smile were nothing but sinister thoughts. I think I hated her more for believing that I was such a fucking simp that I’d put up with her shit and that there was nothing I could do about it because she had me by the balls.
What she doesn’t realize is that she never had me by anything, it was my asshole of a father that they owned, but that buck stops here. I evaded her hug, and her face fell. “What’s wrong? Why won’t you let me hug you?”
“Let’s sit down.”
I had purposely asked her to meet in a park where there were sure to be people, and at Lily’s insistence, I was already recording everything just to be on the safe side. I’d stopped trusting Lacey a long time ago. Not because of the cheating, because I don’t even look at it as that because I have absolutely no interest in having that sort of relationship with her, but because she’d shown her true colors after years of friendship and that, along with the things Lily had shared showed me that she was never the person I thought she was.