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Not ten feet away from me stands Teddy. Smiling, laughing, and laden with foodie treasures and a giant pink stuffed bear.
I crouch there, frozen and unable to look away. Watching as the petite blonde beside him grabs his face and presses her lips against his. When they pull apart, his smile is blinding. He’s never looked at me like that before.
The universe takes that as a cue to kick me right in the metaphorical balls while I am already down.
When the wind brushes through her hair and carries the scent to me, I turn in horror at Lexi. She nods, confirming my suspicion. I may not have a shifter’s nose, but I know a human when I smell one.
Standing up, my rage begins to reach new levels. Lexi was right. I’m going to fucking kill Teddy. And possibly his mate, too.
Instead of encouraging the chaos like normal, Lexi grabs my arm firmly to stop me. When I glare at her, she releases me but whispers a gentle command.
“Look.”
You know that moment, when you shouldn’t do something, when your gut is screaming at you not to do something, but you do it anyway? Yeah. I shouldn’t have looked.
The pretty blonde turns sideways enough to show off her radiant glow and third trimester of pregnancy belly.
A sound escapes me unbidden, and tears flow down my cheeks.
He hadn’t touched me the past few months, and I stupidly thought it was nerves. No, it was shame and guilt. Because I was the other woman.
Teddy... no. Alexander had a family.
And I was not a part of it.
I would lie and say that my heart broke seeing the woman round with the baby I wasn’t even sure I wanted, but my pain stemmed more from the rejection than a breaking of my heart.
Physical appearance has never been where my confidence lay. But Teddy told me I was beautiful. Sexy even. He would growl and whisper dirty things. He made me giggle. He made me feel confident. And with one unborn babe, those feelings are all ripped away from me.
He must have heard my painful scream because I was able to take no more than a handful of steps away from the scene before Alexander’s hand gripped my arm to stop me. His touch repulsed me, and I spun around just as quickly with a full open hand slap across his face. The force of my blow sounded like a crack and sent him stumbling backward. He grabs his cheek and turns his sorrowful eyes to mine. But all that is left in me, looking at this pitiful excuse of a man, is disgust.
“Ginger Snaps, please. I can explain.”
“Do. Not. Call. Me. That.”
He opens his mouth to say something else, and Lexi moves to my side with a low growl that means business. She is the alpha heir and could take him down in mere seconds. He backs away, and I take my moment to tell him everything I want to. After all, I am a firm believer in living a life with no regrets.
“Alexander, I hope that the Goddess blesses that woman and your baby is born as healthy as can be. I also hope that you get ass-fucked by a rhino with crabs, and then those crabs travel all over your body when you shift, so that you end up covered in the itchy fuckers, and it eventually causes total body hair loss. Then I hope she leaves you for someone better, and you can be this fat, ugly, hairless bear shifter that everyone laughs at, until the day you die. All alone. Fuck you, Alexander.”
Lexi’s maniacal laughter rings out above the carnival noises as I spin to head back toward the clearing. The combination of her evil eruption of joy and the crackling of thunder above, create the perfect soundtrack to my mic-drop of a curse.
Nothing says ‘fuck you’ more than cursing someone’s anus to an unpleasant intrusion that leads to a freakishly disgusting un-happily ever after.
I have never been more ready to get the fuck out of here than I am right now. Lexi follows behind, but disappears for a quick moment, before popping right in front of me and nearly skewering me in the eyes with a giant deep-fried pickle on a stick. I’m too angry to be annoyed, and when the smell hits my nose, my stomach growls hard.
It’s one of my weaknesses, and she knows it. I grumble a thank you and snatch the stick from her hands. Without a single ounce of lady-like demeanor, I devour the greasy snack in seconds. Cursing someone really makes a girl hungry.
Granted, I don’t go around tossing curses all that much, so I don’t have a lot to compare it to, but I won’t say I didn’t like the way my magick tingled around my words when I wove the absurdity at Alexander. It felt good. Now, I’m feeling a little excited with the idea of shoving fries into my mouth next.
Filling a hole with food that should have been filled with dick.
Although...
The night is still young, and I am a single woman now. So maybe Lexi has a friend I can have some fun with tonight. Hell, knowing Lexi, she probably has a few guy friends for me to pick from. That thought makes me smile. Maybe I can line them all up naked and choose that way. Shifters have no qualms about nudity, so I’m sure they wouldn’t mind.
With a wicked smile on my face and a pep in my step, I leave the carnival, and Alexander, for something much more fun.
Bring on the dick parade!
