low in warning but I don’t give a damn.
“What?” she stutters, her body now tense, the shivering gone.
“I said leave that skank top of yours where it is.” I grit the words out, stepping closer to her. “You destroyed my family but that wasn’t enough for you, you had to come back and be a slut, seducing my brother.”
She gasps, staring up at me.
“I don’t even know what you mean,” she starts. “Hell, I didn’t even know he was your brother.”
“And you expect me to believe the lies you spew from that lying, conniving, sleek mouth of yours?” I mock.
“I’m telling you the truth!” she cries. “I didn’t know.”
I step closer to her, and she backs into the wall looking frightened, but I can see the anger in her eyes flaring up.
“Yeah, I didn’t know that you used your mouth for much more than just telling off strangers in hospital hallways.” I growl. “But then again, little users like you who sell sensitive information to the press do much more with their mouths than the average little girl is used to.”
“I’m not a whore, you jerk!”
There’s that fire. Now let’s blow it out. Boxing her in, I bring my hands up to wall, looking down at her with all the pent-up rage I can’t control.
“Yeah, and that’s why you were about to sleep your way into my family, this time it was to what? Ride Liam’s cock for more secrets to expose because you can’t afford your sick mother’s medicine?”
Her chest rises and falls, watching me like I’m the villain here when she’s the one who set fire to my fucking castle.
“Bet your mother taught you how to do that too, didn’t she?” I growl, my fucking chest tightening with each word and the way she seems to be blistering in pain with each world. “Those kissing lessons, I guess they were code on how to sell your tiny body for profi—"
I see it coming but I don’t stop her. She slaps me so hard, I move my head with it. Then she pushes me back with all her might and I let her, silently sucking in a breath when I feel her tiny hands on my chest.
“You don’t get to talk about my mother, so watch your damn mouth!” she shouts, pushing me back again, punching my chest. “You can talk about me, demean me but never my mother.”
Our gazes lock and hold for a second, then she looks away.
“I’m sorry about your brother, actually for both of them,” she yells. “I really am. Hurting them was never my intention.”
“But you fucking did.” I bellow. I can’t keep that at bay. “I should’ve come after you with the shit you pulled last year but being a deceitful bitch to my brother…you’re fucking done.”
“I’m not a bitch!”
“You certainly dress like one.
“Sure, because a tight top makes one a whore, sure,” she mocks. “You want my fucking slutty top, here.” She picks it up and throws it in my face.
“You want to embarrass me like filth in front of everyone in this party, walk out of here like I’m a two-dollar trailer trash, prostitute who misplaced her torn, tattered clothes?”
She walks over to the door, her perky breasts now on full display, rage lighting her eyes.
“Watch me take my own destiny and fate in my own fucking hands, you asshole.”
And with that, she leaves, slamming the door shut behind her.
“Damn, J,” Cole whistles. “She just called your bluff and showed you the fuck up.”
Following after her, I can hear the whistles and catcalls as she goes, marching through the crowd with a fake, huge smile on her face. She gets to the center of the room, then hops up on a table and flares her arms in the air.
“Skinny dipping in the fucking pool, right now!”
The crowd cheers and she laughs, jumping off the table with a bunch of guys and they all head to the back, but she stops for a second. As if she knew I was watching all along, she kisses her middle finger and points it at me.
With a cunning smirk on her beautiful face, girls and guys taking their clothes off around her, she watches me, the same sadness I saw in her the first time we met still clouding her gaze, she watches me right back until she disappears.
And just like that, she woke a sleeping, hungry monster whose only appetite is for…her.
5
Almost two years later…
“Pssst.”
The persistent, annoying, disgusting spitting sound finally makes me snap.