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

I was again out of my

he was just doing it for show. I

in control of things

kissing me, making me kiss him

his puppet. Ivan’s puppet.

so mortifying, realizing how easily I

their games.

the ceiling, watching the light

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with some way to get what

end of it all?

I don’t even know what I want. Or how to play. Everyone is playing chess and I’m not even playing checkers. I

sister, my dad,

what I wouldn’t give to go back

I’ve been laying in the dark for what must

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

Now.

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