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I’m about ready to turn the TV off and head to bed when my phone pings with an incoming text. I fight a groan, thinking it’s Jason but frown when I see it’s a message from Corvin. I open the thread.
Reaper
What size are you?
I balk at the screen.
Fuck off you perv!
Reaper
Coming from the girl who stripped in front of me last night and wanted to ride my cock this morning while trying to kill me?
You wish that strip show was for you! What do you want, Reaper?
Reaper
You never messaged me today….
I scoff, is he out of his damn mind!
I’m staying in YOUR penthouse, why the fuck would I text you?
Reaper
You’ve texted me every single day for the past six weeks at 11:42 every single day except today, why?
I reread his message at least four times stunned, yes I knew of course he would expect a text from me every day but I never realized he knew the exact time.
What’s the time got to do with it?
I wait anxiously for his reply wondering if he really knows what is so significant about that time.
Reaper
It’s the time they announced my heart stopped beating…..
You mean the time they announced that my sister's heart stopped!
Reaper
The moment they announced hers stopped beating, mine did too.
Without permission tears spring to my eyes as I read his message. It shouldn’t affect me the way it does but I can’t deny reading his words makes me feel a certain way. Disgust rolls through me. I slept with him when I never should have. Even if it meant escaping my reality for a few hours, I never should have found an escape in him—he’s hers. Another message comes through pulling me from my thoughts.
Reaper
Tell me something I don’t know about her…
I want to deny him but truthfully, messaging him every day telling him something about Cody makes me feel closer to her. It’s almost like she isn’t really gone if we can keep her memory alive by speaking about her daily and not hiding the fact that she ever existed, like my parents are doing.
When she was six she fell off her bike and knocked her two front teeth out on the concrete. It was on Easter weekend. That was her favorite holiday.
Reaper
*crying face emoji* You called her bugs that weekend, didn’t you?
Laughter burst out of me. I did call her Bugs, and her face each time I said it was priceless. She wanted to hurt me but she never did. No matter how mad I made her, Cody would never do anything to hurt me. She was the best fucking sister and here I am laughing at memories of her with the guy who broke her heart and caused her death.
