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CHAPTER 498: Nice To Finally Meet You
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They Know What She Wants CHAPTER 498: Nice To Finally Meet You
All the warmth the last hour had built up inside me went out like someone had thrown a bucket of ice water over it."What are you doing here?" I heard myself ask, and my voice sounded so small. "How did you even find me?""We were invited." My father's gaze finally moved from me to the man blocking his path. "Noah.""Gage." Noah didn't move an inch. His hand had curled around the edge of the door so tight his knuckles had gone white. "Funny. I don't remember sending an invitation.""You didn't.""Then you can turn around and fuck off back to wherever you came from.""Enough!" My mother's voice cracked down the middle of it, loud enough that all three of us turned to look at her. She pressed her lips together, inhaled slowly, and let it out. “Please,” she added.When she spoke again, it was quieter and careful, like she'd rehearsed every word."My name is Thea Ashford," she said, looking straight at Noah. "And you must be Noah."Noah didn't blink."I've heard so much about you from..."
They Know What She Wants CHAPTER 497: Probably Not
SARAPHINA°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･After that day, I didn't bring up the past again. Not the accident, not Paul, not whatever Noah had been like before I knew him. If he didn't want to relive it, then fine, so be it. I wasn't going to be the one to drag it out of him.It was weirdly easy, at first. The days fell into a kind rhythm. He'd wake up before me, always, and I'd find him at the window with his coffee. Sometimes we’d end up together on the couch that was definitely not built for two people, my legs thrown over his lap, some old movie playing that neither of us was really watching.I also started making most of our breakfast, partly because I didn't trust him and partly because it gave my hands something to do while I watched him pretend he wasn't thinking about the verdict hanging over his head. He'd tease me, I'd tease him back, and for an hour or two it almost felt like we were just two people with a boring little life.But I noticed things now. I noticed how he'd go quiet whenever som
They Know What She Wants CHAPTER 496: He’s Here!
THEA ASHFORD °❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･ We went through four checkpoints, and by the third one I'd stopped pretending anything about the drive was normal. The first was a plain iron gate with a guard who barely looked at us, but the second had two men with earpieces who made Gage roll down every window, and the third had a dog, a big silent shepherd that walked the whole length of our car sniffing at the tires. Gage kept both hands on the wheel through all of it, and he answered every question in the same dull, practiced voice. I didn't say anything though, and just sat there with my purse in my lap and my fingers digging into the strap, watching the road curl up through trees so old and so evenly spaced that somebody had obviously paid a lot of money for them to look natural. Then the trees opened up and there it was, an estate, and I use the word because I can't think of a better one. It wasn't one house. It was a whole cluster of them spread across like they'd been poured there, a main
They Know What She Wants CHAPTER 495: Fuck My Life
"Would that have stopped you?" I asked.She stopped with one hand on the door and looked back over her shoulder, and for a second she actually seemed to consider it, head tilted, eyes drifting up like she was running the scenario.Then she scoffed."Nah." She waved her hand. "I would've knocked. Loudly. Probably would've shouted something through the wood, like 'James are you there?' and then waited exactly four seconds before coming in anyway."I couldn’t hold back the soft laugh that bubbled through me."That's so evil.""It's very evil. I'm told it's part of my charm." She grinned, and went on. "A locked door is just a suggestion if you know where the spare key is. Which I do. Because it's my house."Another laugh and a little hiccuping. I clapped a hand over my mouth and it just kept coming, and I folded forward over my knees with it, and the whole awful day seemed to loosen its grip on my ribs for a moment."There she is," Celeste let out, softer.I wiped under my eyes with the
They Know What She Wants CHAPTER 494: Lock The Door
She picked a piece of lint off the arm of the couch and flicked it away while I stared at her in disbelief. "You heard me." She went on, still picking at the couch but her voice had gone a shade cooler underneath. "Like it or not, you'll have to get through me to have him, and I'm a lot of work, Riley. I have a whole history." "Are you fucking serious?" I scrubbed my sleeve across my face, and I could feel the anger finally showing up, thank God, because it was so much better than crying. "That day at the railing, which was it? Do you want me to leave him alone because it's good for me, or because he's yours?" She stared at me for a moment before letting out, "Both." “Both?” "Is that so hard to believe? I can want to protect you and still not want to hand him over. People are allowed to be messy, I'm living proof." "You still," I started, and paused and tried again. "You still want him?" "Isn't that obvious?" No, it wasn’t! She leaned back into the couch and tipped her head a
They Know What She Wants CHAPTER 493: Nope
Before it could go any further, the door opened without a knock. I heard the latch click and the hinges give their little squeak, and the sound went through me like a bucket of ice water."You know," Celeste drawled, "if you're going to do something like this, you should at least lock the damn door."I physically couldn't move and stayed as I was. James on the other hand had gone rigid under me, his hand still at my waist before he let his head fall back against the couch cushion and exhaled through his nose."What do you want, Celeste," he said to the ceiling."Oh, I'm fine, thanks for asking." She leaned against the doorframe with her arms crossed, and I made the mistake of glancing over. She wasn't smirking. And well, that topped up everything in all the wrong ways.She looked at me for a second with something that might have been sympathy if there wasn’t a clear dissatisfaction in her eyes, then she turned her eyes to the wall. "Somebody's waiting for you outside. Said it could
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