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VICIOUS VOWS
RAE B. LAKE
TRIGGER WARNING
Please be advised that this is a dark romance story. There may be certain events or triggers that could be upsetting to some readers. A few to included in this story:
Assault, drugging, kidnapping, talk of jail time, blood, and threats of harm. Please visit http://raeblake.com/about-vicious-vows for a full list of content warnings.
CHAPTER ONE
“Faye, you have no idea what this means to me.” Farrah sniffled dramatically into her elbow.
Farrah and I had a huge blow up after she tried to use me as a scapegoat when her attempt at money laundering got her snatched up by the cops. My twin sister had always been the more outgoing of the two of us. The more adventurous. I, on the other hand, thought it was a wild and crazy day if I caught a new episode of Naked and Afraid on TLC.
“I don’t understand why you can’t just call this guy and reschedule the date? I mean, he has to understand that you’re not feeling well. Why would anyone force you on a date if you truly aren’t feeling good?” I swiped the garish red lipstick over my lips and cringed at myself in the mirror.
Farrah was the one who liked to be the center of attention. The one who’d show up to a cocktail party in a floor length glittering gown simply because she knew that she’d be the center of attention. I on the other hand would be the one plastered against the wall praying no one would see me.
“I can’t flake. This guy went all out for this date. There’s even one of those shows that go with the dinner. You know like one of those whodunnit, it’s all very expensive and if I don’t show up he’ll lose all of his money. I don’t want to do that to him. I’m trying to turn over a new leaf here, sister. Remember what we talked about? Being a better person?” She looked up at me with those doe eyes.
The same hazel brown eyes that I see in the mirror every day.
When my sister was in jail, it’d honestly been hell for me. I felt like such a traitor for not doing more so she wouldn’t take the fall for trying to scam those people. The problem with that was if I didn’t reveal to the police that it was my sister who was working and not me they’d have thrown me into prison.
Still even though I knew I’d done the right thing I still felt really bad about it. My sister of course never let me live it down. Every chance she got she'd remind me that it was my fault that she spent that time in jail. When we finally decided to mend our relationship, she promised me that she’d work harder on being a better person and I promised her that I’d try to help her get her life together.
I thought I’d be holding up my end of the bargain pretty well. Not only had I let the parole board know that she was a good person but I even offered up my apartment as a place for her to stay anytime she needed it. Anytime she needed was like two or three times a week when she was too bombed out her ass to make it back to wherever she was staying at that moment.
If me taking her place on this date was her way of trying to become a better person I wasn’t going to stand in her way.
“Fine, Farrah. But I promise you if dude is a creep or tries to get too handsy I’m out of there.” I grab the long white dress she pulled out for me and throw on a mint green cardigan just to keep warm. She protested but when I told her that I wasn’t going out in just that dress she’d let up.
“I’m sure you’ll be fine. Remember it may be a little strange at first since they include the dinner guests in the little play that they’re putting on.” Farrah’s voice was a little more high pitched than normal and I hadn’t seen her cough or sniffle in the last five minutes.
“Sis, tell me the truth, do you just not like this guy? If so, why don’t you just let him down easy.” I shrug and take a step closer to her.
Farrah crossed her arms over her chest and squinted her eyes at me like she was some sort of authority figure or something like that. “Faye, this is the second time you questioned me about this. I told you everything. How am I ever going to believe that you’re truly on my side if everything I tell you is enough to have you second guessing my word? I had enough of that shit while I was in jail. It didn’t matter what I’d told the guards or the cops, no one ever believed me. Are you going to do that to me too?” Tears welled up in her eyes and I quickly rushed over to pull her into a hug.
My heart squeezed at the pain that she was in. A pain that I’d partially enabled. My gut rolled and I took in a few deep breaths as I pulled away from her. I didn’t want her to hurt anymore. I didn’t want her to have to deal with all the judgment and pain that came along with making a mistake. I needed to make a greater effort and just go along with Farrah’s plan. Sure she’d never really been on the straight and narrow path before in her life but that didn’t mean that she couldn’t start.
“I’m sorry. I believe you. You know me Farrah. I’m a nervous Nellie.” One half of my mouth lifted in what I’d hope was a calming gesture but her grimace let me know that it wasn’t.
“About that, you need to pull out all the stops for this one. I’ve never been a nervous person in my life. Just like how we’d do it in high school. Do you remember Faye? Do you remember how close we’d been back in those days?” She pushed a strand of my long hair over my shoulder and nodded slowly.
With a sigh my mind jumped back to all those days in highschool where I’d sneak into one class or another to take whatever test Farrah was sure she’d fail. I swear if it hadn’t been for me she’d never have graduated. To her defense she’d always make sure that I’d be invited to whatever little outing she and her friends had. If it wasn’t for her I’d have never had any type of social life. That same social life died the second I was out of high school. Now it’s just me and my small accounting business that I can do online. It’s a boring life but I was happy with it.
“I remember Farrah, and as much as I want to go back to a time when you and I could be that close I know it’s going to take time.” I said while I rubbed my hand over her shoulder
“Again with this shit, Faye! Fuck! I did my time. I paid the price, why do you always have to make me out to be the bad guy?”
“No! That’s not what I’m trying to do at all.” I dropped my hands down by my waist.
“You always want me to feel bad. You’ve always been the good twin. You don’t know how hard it is to be me Faye! Why can’t you just cut me some slack!” Veins pushed up against the side of her neck as she shouted.
