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His jaw dropped and I knew I had him.
“See? Right there! You were about to look out for number one. If only everyone else knew how selfish you really are.”
“Selfish? I recall giving you more orgasms than receiving. I would say that’s pretty un-fucking-selfish!”
I opened my mouth to argue, but he had a point. “Fine. Truce?”
I held out my hand, and after a few grumbled-filled seconds, he held out his hand and shook mine.
“For Rob.”
I nodded in agreement. “For Rob and all his upcoming orgasms.”
35
SEBASTIAN
“Everyone quiet down!” Maggie shouted over the growing chaos. Everyone stopped talking and turned to face her. I couldn’t believe she was forcing me to ruin this alternate life that I mostly enjoyed. I didn’t want everyone to know what was really going on. They’d ruin everything. However, there was truth at the heart of Maggie’s argument. If Giulia could so easily destroy Rob’s life, she could do the same to all of us, and none of us knew who the next victim would be.
“The building has been blown up, but tomorrow, everything will go back to normal!” Maggie shouted with a smile on her face.
“What are you talking about?” Cazzo asked, storming to the front of the crowd.
“I blew up the building,” Maggie announced.
The crowd broke out in angry shouts, most of them directed at her, but a few at me. Yeah, my wife was a menace to society. Tell me something I didn’t already know.
“Why the fuck would you blow up the building?” Gabe asked.
“To prove a point. Underneath the rubble, you will find Rob, Hunter, and Craig—all smashed to pieces.”
They looked around at each other in disbelief. Yeah, she wasn’t exactly making much sense, or doing a good job explaining what was going on.
Not surprising, it was Knight who stepped forward. “So, you’re telling us that three of our men are dead under that rubble.”
“Yep,” she said, quite possibly too cheerfully. “But there’s good news! Tomorrow will reset and they’ll be alive again!”
They all looked at her as if she was insane, which was pretty much true even on a good day. Then the chatter broke out again, and I was pretty sure one of them suggested Maggie was a witch and needed to be burned at the stake.
“I’m doing a terrible job of explaining what’s going on!” she shouted.
“No shit,” I muttered, stepping up to the front of the crowd and shoving her aside. “Hang on, everyone. “If I can just take a moment to try and explain things in a better way?—”
“That would be appreciated,” Lola scoffed.
“I understand you’re all confused by what’s going on and why my wife would blow up the building. Let me start by explaining why she would do that. For some time now I’ve known that our lives are not exactly as we thought. You see…we’re all part of a book?—”
“Not this shit again,” Knight muttered.
“It’s true. I’ve known it since the Relationship Manual, and if you all think about it, you’ll remember an interview you had with a woman named Giulia. See, this woman is an author. She created this entire world you see around you. All of us are characters in her books, and right now, this is what we call stasis.”
“Are you trying to tell us we’re in some kind of sci-fi reality?” Jackson asked.
“No, we’re…we’re not being written right now. When Giulia closes down her writing for the day, we’re left in this weird reality that most of us don’t remember. But right now, we’ve been woken from a type of sleep and we’re not the same people we are in the books.”
“Really? Because I still feel like fucking killing you,” Knight muttered.
I pointed at him. “And some of us are exactly the same. As for me, not much has changed. I’m well aware of Giulia’s manipulations of us, but overall my personality is the same. As is Maggie’s, as you can see by the destroyed building behind us.”
