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“So who is?” Remi asks the exact same question I’ve been asking myself for weeks.
I shrug. “I don’t even know if he’s telling the truth. It could be a lie to add to all the others.”
“Ace,” Remi sighs, wrapping her arms tighter around my shoulders.
As good as it feels having her comforting me, that wasn’t the reason I came here.
“Remi.”
“Shhh,” she says, placing her fingers over my lips. “No more talking.” My heart damn near pounds out of my chest as she licks her lips.
Her eyes bounce between mine as she hovers dangerously close to my mouth. I can only assume she’s trying to talk herself out of it, but I’m not about to help her out with that. I need her lips on mine more than I need my next breath.
I hold her tighter, hoping it’ll help her make a decision.
“I shouldn’t be doing this,” she mutters a beat before her lips press to mine.
Every single muscle in my body relaxes. I part my lips, desperate to deepen the kiss. She follows my lead, but the second our tongues collide she jumps off me like she’s just been burned.
“Remi, Princess. Come on, you’re not playing fair,” I groan, making a show of rearranging myself in my pants so she knows exactly what she does to me with just a simple kiss.
“Fair?” she asks incredulously. “Let’s talk about fair, shall we?”
Her eyes are still red from the tears she shed for me earlier, but as she remembers, more fill her eyes. “You played a sex tape of me losing my virginity at my own birthday party, Ace. How is that fair? I was already the school outcast. What were you even thinking?”
I sink back in the chair. “I wanted to hurt James,” I say honestly, and she gasps.
She said she wanted the truth, so she’s going to get it. “It was obvious the first day we moved in that you were important to him. The way he looked at you that night. It was with so much love and adoration. The exact look the three of us should have had from our parents but never did.
“I hated you in that moment. I’d been dragged into this life. A life I didn’t want. Forced to live with a lying cunt of an uncle who may or may not have killed my dad.” My chest heaves with the admission. “I was a fucking mess. I’m still a fucking mess. But something changed.”
“What?” she asks, a little hope seeping into her voice.
“You. You happened, Remi. I was meant to mess with you, hurt you, break you and send you back on your knees crying to him.” Her eyebrows almost hit her hairline, but I won’t stop now that I’ve started. “I wanted to show him that he’s not the only one who can manipulate other people’s lives. I wanted to prove to him that I had power. That I could get what I wanted and ruin who I wanted.
“I just didn’t anticipate one thing.”
She juts her hip out and places her hand on her waist. She’s so fucking sexy when she’s feisty. Her tank is thin enough to give me a hint of her nipples hiding behind, and her boy shorts ride high on her thighs. Fuck, how I’d love to rip them off her and feast on what’s beneath until she cries my name.
My cock swells once again. “I fell for you, Princess. Hook, line, and fucking sinker.”
“But you still went through with it.” My heart sinks.
“If James hadn’t pulled that stunt for your birthday, I probably wouldn’t have. But that just tipped me over the edge and I saw red. All I could focus on was revenge.”
“So you filmed me and played it for everyone to see? I can’t believe that even after… that, that you could be so cold, so cruel.”
“I had no intention of playing that video. I took the memory card from the camera and was going to destroy it. I couldn’t do it. You meant too much to me. I’d fallen too hard by that point.”
I stand, pushing the chair out behind me and stalking toward her.
“B-But it played. E-Everyone saw it, Ace. Everyone saw me naked as you…”
“Fuck,” I roar, anger like I’ve never known before swelling in my gut. “I know, Princess. I fucking know, and trust me when I say that I want to kill every motherfucker who so much as glanced at that screen. What they saw… I’ll regret it every day for the rest of my life.” The words vibrate in my chest, a firestorm coursing through me.
I run my hand over my face and scrub at my rough jaw. “That should have been for my eyes only. That’s why I knew I couldn’t do it. You’d given me something precious, and I couldn’t ruin that any more than I already had.”
“S-So how, Ace? You say you’d changed your mind but that tape was still played. How?” she seethes.
