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“What is wrong with you?” he screams at me, his usual soft voice going rough. “She was trying to rile you up, don’t take it to heart! Don’t let her win!”
“What’s wrong with me?” I snort. “What’s fucking wrong is that what she said was true, Lik!” My voice dies in my throat from all the shouting.
I’m not used to losing my shit entirely. “It was all true,” I repeat in a harsh whisper. “And it hit right where she aimed.”
Rose’s poisoned arrow hit right in my heart. As rightly aimed as when she shoots a bullet through the air. It pierced through my weak muscle and killed the reason in me. Now I’m only left with a deadly obsession.
“She knew what she was doing. She did it so you would go after her, not because she truly wants to move on.”
I know he’s the voice of reason right now. And I know I should listen to him. But I can’t.
She wanted me to go after her?
I’ll give her exactly that. Play into her silly game, just to make her lose.
6
RACHEL
Midnight Love –girl in red
60 days until Viktor…
I knock hard on the front door four times repeatedly. For the third time. I follow up again.
Knock, knock, knock, knock.
Nothing.
Dejected, I turn my back to the Murrays’ double door. I’m about to take a step when I hear it open and turn around quickly enough to feel dizzy.
“You’ve got to be kidding me.” Rose’s voice is its usual rasp, but it’s emotionless. Empty of the love she usually has for me. I’ve become so accustomed to it I never realized I’d taken it for granted. Not hearing it pierces a hole through my heart.
“I know you’re mad at me right now,” I say, taking a step closer to her. “I just need you to hear me out. Please.”
I look at how she’s dressed, and my heart skips a beat. Black booty shorts that barely cover her. A tight, white tank top that doesn’t hide her dark nipples in the slightest. Her hair is disheveled and her eyes glassy.
Automatically, my gaze goes to her right hand, checking her fingers for any clue. Wetness…I don’t know.
“You… Please tell me there isn’t another girl in your room right now.”
Her eyebrows lift in surprise. “Wha—” Then her eyes narrow in anger. “Are you for fucking real right now?” she growls. “I’ve got no time for your jealous shit.” She starts closing the door, but I push back.
“Okay, I’m sorry,” I practically shout. “Just let me in, please. I just want to talk. You owe me that for all the times I let you justify yourself after you hurt me.”
Hesitation remains in her eyes as her jaw works from side to side while she thinks. “Come on in.” She opens the door fully, and I smile shyly walking in.
Come on, Rachel. You’ve got this.
I look around as I follow her into the house and up the grand staircase.
“Are the Murrays not here?”
“Work trip,” she replies. “I don’t see them much more than I did when we were in high school. Miss them, though.”
“Yeah, they’re so nice.” I try to keep the conversation going, but it dies after my last words.
We get to Rose’s room, and she pushes the door open. She falls onto her bed, lying down before I can even take the room in.
