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

proved to me that I was again out of my

just doing

things with Kent but –

me to anger, and then kissing me, making me kiss him back, lose control like some lovesick girl while he humiliated me.

his puppet. Ivan’s

realizing how easily I

their games.

watching the light of day fade

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of night, trying to come up with a plan, with some way to get what I want out of this stupid game.

at the end

even know what I want. Or how to play. Everyone is playing chess and I’m not even playing checkers. I feel so…stupid. And alone. I

dad,

to go back

finally breaks me out of my stupor is 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

up against the door or Ivan

Now.

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