The Ruined Bride of Velvet Nights by Brick Moving Ant

Chapter 38

  • Chapter 5

  • Our team had won gold at the competition, which meant automatic acceptance to

  • Stanford–basically a golden ticket.

  • Initially, I had declined the offer.

  • Because I wanted to attend UC Davis with Zephyr.

  • My mom and Zephyr’s mom had been best friends since college.

  • Zephyr and I grew up together–sandbox to high school, the whole cliché.

  • But after his parents‘ nasty divorce, Zephyr’s grades tanked.

  • He completely checked out of school, becoming the textbook rebellious rich kid.

  • He fell in with guys who were already dealing, started smoking, drinking, getting into fights–living

  • like there was no tomorrow.

  • He became the school’s resident bad boy with a capital B.

  • Yet girls still flocked to him, buying into that whole “damaged but desirable” fantasy.

  • I couldn’t stand watching him destroy himself.

  • I tried to reach him, understand him, drag him back from the edge.

  • status as his desk mate and class rep to force tutoring sessions

  • the childhood friend card to chase away his sketchy friends, practically frog–marching him home

  • pursued him, convinced I

  • back, everyone

  • Johnson isn’t even Zephyr’s girlfriend, she’s just

  • Chapter 5

  • a desperate slut, following Zephyr round the pigry.

  • herved at guys,

  • pretended none of it got

  • heard Zephyr saying worse things himself.

  • devotion and persistence suddenly felt like the world’s sickest ja

  • as I’d been when Zephyr

  • equally destroyed hearing those words.

  • still can’t stop myself from remembering that deep, wet kiss in the darkness.

  • rush of desire stealing my breath, branded

  • was my first

  • touched

  • of fabric on the floor that barely qualified as

  • everything that happened today,

  • shame came crashing back

  • Tears fell.

  • slapped myself hard

  • it fucking together, Phoebe!

  • No more fantasies.

  • more obsessing

  • those things violently into the trash.

  • Chapter S

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