Chapter 139

“Good night, Fay,” he calls as I stomp up the stairs towards my

room. “See you at breakfast.”

I don’t look back. Instead, I storm through my bedroom door and

slam it shut behind me, hurling myself onto my bed. There, I hide

my head in my pillow and burst into furious tears.

I stay alone in my room for hours after I finish crying. Vacillating

between feeling absolutely horrible and then feeling absolutely

nothing at all, I stare at my ceiling for hours.

I had thought I was in charge with Kent. That I could rile him, and

use his…his attraction to me for my benefit. But today, everything

that I was again out

just doing it for

control of things with Kent

First raising me to anger, and then kissing me, making me kiss him

puppet. Ivan’s puppet.

mortifying, realizing how easily I

their games.

the light of day fade into

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a plan, with some way to get what I want

at the end of it all?

I want. Or how to play. Everyone is playing chess and I’m not even playing checkers. I feel so…stupid. And alone. I pull my pillow over my

my dad, my

to go back to it all.

mighty growl at some point in the evening when I’ve been laying in the dark for what

and put a hand there, wondering if it was Kent pressing me up against the door or

Now.

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