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 depth. I had

me, but he was just doing it

in control of things

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

really am his puppet. Ivan’s

so mortifying, realizing how easily I play into all of

their games.

at the ceiling, watching the light

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up with a plan, with some way to get what I want out of this

end

and I’m not even playing checkers. I feel so…stupid. And alone. I pull my pillow over my head,

my sister, my dad, my old life.

wouldn’t give to

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

and put a hand 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 want

Now.

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