The Unwanted Bride Of Atticus Fawn

Chapter 281

~SCARLETT~

My sister and best friend were not giving me a chance to breathe. They were throwing questions at me, one after the next.

I didn’t want to remember anything about last night. I wanted to forget last night ever happened.

“You need to tell us what happened last night between you and Carter!” Clara repeats as Jenna joins us in the car. It was the next day, and I was still in shock and scarred from last night, and it was all these two traitor’s fault.

They abandoned me when I needed them the most.

How could they have left me to deal with Carter on my own?

How could they let him drop me home?

“I can’t believe the two of you!” I snap. “You guys are such traitors. How could you let me leave with Carter all by myself? Do you even realize how awful that was for me?”

A part of me knew that wasn’t entirely true. It wasn’t completely awful, but that wasn’t something I was ready to admit.

Jenna gives me a sneaky smile, “it was Clara’s idea. She said it would be best for the two of you to leave together so that you could get closer to him. But did that happen? Did you happen to get closer to Carter?”

I sigh, “I knew my sister would be the one to throw me under the bus. She lives to see me in pain.”

Clara rolls her eyes, “stop being so dramatic.”

“Come on,” Jenna says impatiently. “You need to spill the tea. We want to know everything! And don’t leave a single detail out.”

I roll my eyes, “I shouldn’t tell you anything for abandoning me last night. I thought I would have died!”

“You’re being dramatic again!” Clara exclaims. “If you want to get closer to Carter, you’ll have to spend time alone with just the two of you. It’s something you have to get used to.”

“That’s the problem,” I snap. “I don’t want to get closer to him. I’m only doing this for you. Don’t I have a say in how I get closer to him?”

“No,” Clara answers me. “If we want him to fall in love with you, we must do things my way. If it were up to you, you wouldn’t try to get close to him and instead try to push him away.”

“I have a question for you,” I tell my sister. There is something that has been bothering me about last night. I wanted to know if I was wrong about Carter. “Did Carter ever open his truck door for you or any door?”

She laughs, “Come on, Scarlett. It’s Carter Prince. He doesn’t do romantic. Everyone knows this, including me, and I would know plenty since I dated him. But why do you ask?”, she pauses before her eyes widen. “Don’t tell me he did it for you?”

one hand, my sister would be happy to know he was falling for me or at least pretending to fall for me. But on the other, she would be sad that he was so quick to care for me when he never did

he was going to, but I opened the door before, so I can’t say.” I lie to her. I’m unsure if I’m doing the right thing by lying to her, but I was scared of hurting her. She was going through enough already. I knew she didn’t choose the

done, I know I must continue with

asks; she seemed the most anxious to

the pool area. He immediately came down to ask me what I was doing there. I explained that I might have been there to wreck his windshield for hurting Clara. Of course, he didn’t believe

up for me, but I don’t think you should keep doing that around

seemed to be treating me better when I acted mean to him. For some reason, it seemed like he liked it when I was mean to

“I feel like I’m

what type of person

you mean?” Clara asks me as she tilts her head to the side, trying to hear

that’s when Carter stepped in. I could have handled it independently, but he still showed up. He smashed their faces to the ground and asked them to apologize. After they did, he told them to remember my name and never to try anything like that again on me. Then he gave me

It freaks me out since they’re always

to

feel like you’re talking about a different person.” She

wish!” I exclaim, “But it was definitely

like that from Carter. But this means that Clara’s plan is working. He’s beginning to care for you, and we haven’t

mean by that? I was trying pretty freaking hard. They weren’t the ones putting their lives on the line like me. Of course, it would

need to see his reaction to you at school today,” Clara says. “I need to figure out if he’s messing with you or falling. I’m not sure how we will be able to tell, but we just

day of

Chapter 282

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and the day before that. Since I agreed to do this for my sister, Carter is all that we

become the center of

It was becoming frustrating. All I wanted to do was lie in bed and read novels. Even sleeping would interest me more

felt a shiver down my spine every time I remembered last night. I didn’t need a reminder of it every second. They seemed to be convinced that Carter was already starting to develop feelings

to sleep with. It was simple with everyone else but I was

which I intentionally left out about last

my door after Carter dropped me home. He did

his truck, which would have been normal behavior if he hadn’t

pressing up against it while looking at

touch it? Did he know he was touching

he have a sick, twisted

shook that thought out of my head. I didn’t want to spend any

seeing much of Carter today,” Jenna tells the both of us. I’m suddenly interested in what she has to say—not seeing much of