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“Teague where are you?” Ashley says, worried. “I’m coming over. Just tell me your address.”
I want to tell her that zombies have no addresses, but I can’t even manage that.
“Teague!” Ashley yells. “Are you listening?”
My brain recalls the address and I read it to her as it comes to me. “Okay,” Ashley says. “Wait for me. I’ll be right over.”
Win or Lose
LIAM
Ashley gets off the phone and turns to me.
Her face breaks out in a huge grin and she hugs me and yelps in delight. “It worked!” she cries. “Liam…it worked!” She breaks away and keeps going in the same vein. “I just called the hospital and they told me she’s got some serious injuries but nothing she won’t recover from. In time, that is.”
I know I feel a little full of myself but that’s nothing new. “Well, now you know you have no reason to doubt me.”
“What I don’t understand,” Ashley says. “Is why we’re not just killing her? Wouldn’t that be simpler?”
I roll my eyes. “Killing someone should always be the last resort, Ashley. But hey, if you were smart enough to figure that out you wouldn’t be pining after some brainless, alpha male stereotype.”
“I’ll let that go, because I’m really happy and even you can’t put a dent in my happiness about getting Teague. Soon, I will have him. All to myself.”
“Well, I did my part now you should go do yours.”
Ashley suddenly stops talking and her face gets weird. “Ashley? What’s wrong?” I say but when I turn to see what she’s looking at, my heart skips a beat. “Sebastian. How long have you been standing there?”
“Long enough,” he says, and there’s anger in his eyes. “To know that the two of you are the worst people on the planet.”
Ashley kisses me lightly on the cheek and picks up her purse. “I have to go,” she says. “It was nice running into you, Sebastian.”
Sebastian rudely ignores her and walks up to me. “Let me hear it.”
“Hear what?” I say, going over to the sideboard and opening a bottle of bourbon. I pour it in two glasses.
“Your rationalization,” Sebastian says. “For what I just heard.”
“No rationalization,” I say, walking up to him with the drinks and hand one to him. “Take this. We can talk about this like reasonable people, Sebastian.”
He takes the drink from my hand and smashes it against the wall. “I want to get out of the contract,” he says. “I’ll have my lawyer come to you because I don’t ever want to see your face.”
I take a sip from my drink. “That’s not happening, Sebastian.”
“You said it was just a piece of paper,” Sebastian says. “That I could get out of it any time I wanted!”
“You can,” I say, trying to be gentle. “But I have every right to stop you from making the biggest mistake of your life because you let emotions get in the way.”
“Yeah,” Sebastian says. “I’m an emotional fool. But you knew t
hat about me and you said that was the reason you loved me.”
“I do. And that’s why I can’t let you ruin your life this way for bloody Teague!”
“This is my decision, Liam.”
“No, it’s not.” I say and almost finish the drink.
“Fuck you,” Sebastian says and starts to leave the room but I smash my drink glass against the same wall, harder than he did and he stops.
