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

to me that I was again

but he was just doing

of things with

then kissing me, making me kiss him back, lose control like some lovesick girl

his puppet. Ivan’s

realizing how easily I play into

their games.

ceiling, watching the light of day fade into

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some way to get what

at the end of it

Or how to play. Everyone is playing chess and I’m not even

sister, my dad, my old life.

give to go

my stomach, which gives a mighty growl at some point in the evening when I’ve been laying in the dark for what must be a few hours. I sit up, looking down

there, wondering if it was Kent pressing me up against the door or Ivan feeding me tequila all day that’s responsible for this. Either way, I

Now.

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