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“Rose!” she gasps. I’ve already hung up. I also turn her phone off. This is my moment with Rachel. The one I’ve been waiting for since I fell in love with her.
“You can’t do this. This…” She’s lost for words, but she’s happy. I can see it from the pinched smile.
“Why don’t you try to leave and see if I let you?”
I know how it sounds. Possessive, jealous, psychopathic. I can live with that.
And seeing the look on her face right now, so can she.
“I’m going to have a huge argument when I get home,” she huffs.
“Hopefully, he cancels the wedding.”
“Wishful thinking,” she murmurs back.
“You’re mine, Sunshine,” I tell her as I get close to her again. “All mine. Conor doesn’t stand a chance.”
She nods, her eyes glued to my lips. “What happened last night…” She hesitates, not truly finding the words.
“Will happen many more times.” I pause for a few seconds, trying to find an agreement between us. “Look, you want to stay with Conor for now? You want to appease your parents? Be my guest, but you’ll never be his.”
She chuckles and shakes her head. “I was talking about Sam…and that guy.”
“Lik.” I blow a long breath. I roll my shoulders and stretch my neck. “No,that, that will never happen again.”
“Rose, you can’t just do whatever they ask of you. You can’t! It’s dangerous, it’s—”
“That’s not something for you to worry about.”
She doesn’t agree, but she nods anyway, her lips sealed only for a few seconds. “If you were such good childhood friends, why do you hate each other so much?”
Rachel has a universal innocent look. Her blonde hair, her bright blue eyes. She hides evil beneath that, but not the kind that would put someone she loves in danger. She would never do the kind of things I did to Sam, never betray someone as he did to me or I to him.
“He was meant to protect me,” I rasp. “He made promises he never kept, and he chose to side with…he…” My words escape me as my heart squeezes and attempts to escape through my throat. “He’s a liar. He…he abandoned me.”
She can sense how I’m starting to lose focus over this, pain stabbing at my chest.
“It’s okay, baby,” she says softly. “I trust you. If you say he betrayed you, then I believe you.”
I shake my head. “He stabbed me in the back, Rach. And I stabbed him back.” My mouth twists. “Right in the heart.” I take her face between the palms of my hands. “His hate runs deep, and if doing whatever he wants means he stays away from you, that’s fine with me. I’ll get my revenge on him once you’re safe. Trust me about that.”
“But—”
“I said that’s fine with me, period.”
“Rose—”
“Enough, Rachel. I let you stay with Conor, and you let me handle my shit. Argument over.”
“I love you,” she says meekly.
“And if I didn’t love you, I wouldn’t have agreed to that shit. Now lay back down. You have a few hours of pleasure before you return to boredom.”
Her smile lights up the room, her clothes fall to the floor, and my mouth meets hers in a hungry kiss.
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