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Chapter 1 – Cora ten years ago
I walked into the party just after midnight and cursed the whole night in my head. I walked through the living room first and tried to ignore the multiple people fucking in a giant orgy on a vintage Henry Bogs ornate carpet.
I clenched my fists at my sides as I avoided bodies and ignored people who called out to me as I searched for Mav. He wasn’t even supposed to be here tonight and that’s what pissed me off even more than having to actually come here looking for him. He told me he was staying home, and that he wanted a quiet night alone. And then his mom called me and asked if he was staying at my house or coming home after our movie night tonight and I did what I hated the most, I lied.
I told her he was staying with me and then I’d gotten dressed and drove all the way across town to find him at the biggest party going on tonight. We graduated three days ago, and he had been on a bender for about two months straight already, leaving me unsure if he was even going to survive long enough to go off to college with me in the fall. He needed to take a damn break from all of this, or he was going to end up like –.
I couldn’t even bring myself to say his name in my head; I’d break down and start crying if I did and I had something important to do right now, so I needed to focus.
I could not cry.
I saw Tim and Josh playing pong in the kitchen with a couple of naked girls from school and forced myself to walk in. I hated this rich kid lifestyle, even though I was a rich kid.
“Hey Cora kitty. I didn’t think you were coming out tonight.” Josh, one of Mav’s best friends said to me as he threw a ball across the table and directly into a cup held between a girl’s tits. I didn’t recognize her, though if she had clothes on, maybe I would. Maybe I wouldn’t, I tried to distance myself from these people at all costs usually.
“I didn’t want to come here tonight, but Marsha called me and was looking for Mav. Is he here?” I asked.
Josh looked at me really quick and then over at Tim before letting his eyes fall back on me quickly.
Red flag number one.
“Uh yeah I think I saw him earlier, he might have left though, I haven’t seen him in a while.” He said, unable to meet my eyes.
Red flag two.
“Be straight with me Josh. I just want to make sure he gets home safe.” Unease filled my stomach as I looked between Maverick’s friends while they contemplated telling me something.
Finally, Tim sighed and looked at me straight, “He went upstairs about a half-hour ago.” He didn’t say anything else, and I guess he didn’t have to. I already knew what he wasn’t saying.
“He wasn’t alone was he?” I asked, clenching my teeth together to keep from screaming.
He just shook his head no.
“Thanks.” I said and turned towards the stairs. With every step that I took up them, I thought back to our ten-year relationship and all of the good things we’d shared through each of those years. Everyone always called us crazy when they heard we’d been together since we were eight and that we were going to college together and had our whole life planned. But for us, it was easy because it was what we wanted most.
We’d been best friends since kindergarten when Maverick pushed JJ Lane off the swing set for tripping me to get to it first at recess.
After that, we were two peas in a pod. He was always a big kid, tall and wide and intimidating, with a crazy amount of money and power from his parents which left him untouchable, even at a young age. And he’d taken me into his world and protected me ever since that. He kissed me on the cheek on that same swing set two years later and asked me to marry him. He had given me a ring pop and everything.
We made it official; and we’d been inseparable since then.
Or at least, we had been until his twin brother was killed by a drunk driver two months ago and his world had imploded right around him. I had felt us drifting apart the last few weeks and deep down I’d known this night was coming. I’d been holding onto him longer when I had him, which had been less and less as his broken heart left him incapable of loving me the same way he used to. He kept me at arm’s length like he was afraid his own pain and rage would rub off on me somehow.
My heart ached with each bedroom door that I passed, unable to make myself turn a single knob until I stood outside of the last door in the hallway and felt a tear slide over my cheek. I swiped at it quickly and looked around to make sure no one saw me standing here crying.
I didn’t want anyone to witness my destruction.
I heard something from inside the room and froze, holding my breath as I tried to hear better. I pressed my ear to the door but couldn’t make it out. So I forced myself to quietly turn the knob and I pushed the door open.
“I bet I’m so much better than her.”
I’d recognize that voice anywhere, even before my eyes adjusted to the dim lighting in the master bedroom of this mansion; I knew who it was. It was Sarah, my best friend.
This couldn’t be happening.
“Shut up.” Maverick replied, I could tell without even seeing his face that his teeth were clenched while he spoke.
“Admit it, I feel better on your cock than Cora does. Why else would you keep coming back to fuck me like this, rough and needy.” Boiling rage filled my heart as I stepped into the room and saw Mav’s back. He had Sarah in his arms, pinned between him and the wall with his pants down around his thighs as he thrust into her. Her legs were wrapped around his hips and her blood red nails were clawing at his bare muscled back while he fucked her.
