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“How can you forget?”
“Well,” she says, turning to face me. “I see you acting like a straight guy so much it’s hard to remember you’re anything but.”
“Did you come here to tell me that?”
“What’s up with you?” Ashley asks. “Why’re you so angry?”
I roll my eyes. “We had an agreement, Ashley. And according to that agreement you’re not supposed to be seeing me in private like this. You even realize what’s at stake here?”
“I didn’t come back to Springvale because I didn’t know what was at stake, Liam.”
“So why are you here?”
“I made sure no one saw me. You can relax.”
That does nothing but make me more annoyed. She’s taking this too lightly and I don’t like it. I don’t like that my entire plan is dependent on her behaving right. “I did what you asked me to do,” she says.
“Oh,” I say. “So you’re looking for approval. Bravo, Ashley! You were brilliant out there. Will that be all?”
“Sometimes I wonder why I agreed to work with you. You’re an asshole, Liam.”
“And your point is?”
“Months,” Ashley says. “I’ve been waiting and waiting and waiting. All because you said so. And now that I’ve seen him again, I’m supposed to just let him be with that bitch?”
Leave it to Ashley to make everything dramatic and overly complicated. But I’ve known her a while and I know the way to handle Ashley is not to be rude, no matter how stupid she is being. “Ashley,” I say, more gently this time. “I know you’re dying to get to the destination. I am too. I would love to just skip this whole act and get to the end. You think I’m enjoying this? But there’s a way to do this, we both agreed. That’s why we had a plan, we talked about this. I know it sucks, but the only way to get what you want, is to be patient.”
“How can you ask me to be patient when you’re having the time of your life with Sebastian?”
I must look a little surprised because she rolls her eyes. “Oh please. You think I don’t know the two of you have been sneaking around? I see the way you look at each other.”
If she noticed, do other people notice too? I don’t know if that’s a good thing or bad, but it’s bad that I’m not the one controlling it. And I hate losing control. It’s the one thing that scares me to death. “We’re still sneaking around,” I say. “It’s not like we’re announcing it to the world. We still have to hide.”
“Yeah but at least you got what you wanted!!”
If only she knew. “It may look that way to you, but it’s not true Ashley.”
“What do you mean?”
“I don’t want to talk about that right now.”
“But we’re friends, aren’t we?”
Oh God, I can’t believe this woman is still talking. “Listen,” I say. “We’ve been in here for long. If anyone catches us, our whole plan could be in jeopardy. Is that what you want?”
She looks like she’s actually debating it, the stupid bitch. “No,” she says at long last.
“Then leave,” I say.
“Fine!” she slams the door on her way out, but at least she’s gone.
I finally have some time to be with my own thoughts.
This world is cruel.
When you know what you want, you can’t let others get in the way, and there’s nothing I will allow to come between me and Sebastian. I don’t think he knows how much I love him. He doesn’t know that while he brings out the best in me and I’m tempted to do things the right way that I won’t hesitate to destroy everything in order to get to him. I promised him the world and that’s exactly what he’s going to get. The world. In a silver platter, just like he deserves.
“What happens if I fall?”
