“So you’re a grease monkey?” Ethan chuckled.“More or less,” I replied. “I can rip an engine apart, clean it and put it back together like it’s nothing.”“You don’t look like you can,” he said smoothly. “No offence, of course.”“Some taken,” I replied. “And that’s really sexist of you to say that.”
“We were inseparable,” he sighed. “Growing up with a twin, you kind of don’t even think twice about having them around. They’re just always there, and you kind of just grow up accepting the fact that you’re one half of a pair. At least that’s how I saw it. But Marcus wasn’t really about that. When w
For a moment, I just stared at him. I couldn’t make sense of what he’d just said, and I thought I must have imagined it. It seemed as if the entire world went silent, and it was just the two of us sitting there. I was painfully aware of the fact that he was staring at me, and the fact that he was ru
“What happened then?” I asked. “He was back at his old job a month later,” he said. “And this time, he found out that his wife was expecting a seventh child.”“That’s terrible,” I said. “Why would anyone to that to themselves?”“You can’t help someone who doesn’t want to be helped,” he said. “If I
“But you’re not working for the company now, are you?” I pressed on, trying so hard to make it sound casual and not like I was interrogating him. “So what changed?”“I-I don’t want to talk about it,” he said, staring down at his hands. “I’m sorry, but it’s a bit personal.”Something about the way he
MARCUSThe first week was the most brutal. I felt like I was walking on eggshells. Emily hadn’t spoken a single word to me since I walked into her room after she woke up. She hadn’t even looked at me at all, and she simply kept a blank express on her face. Getting out of the hospital was the first
“Have you lost your goddamn mind?” she asked as soon as she walked into my office. “Good morning to you too, mother,” I replied. I’d just finished signing a letter which would nullify another department, so I was in a sour mood already. But she didn’t seem to care as she sat down in front of me. “
Somehow, the universe always knew when things were starting to look up for me, and it would completely wreck my plans. Every good thing had to be followed immediately with a terrible event, and I was used to it by now. I should have seen that coming after my date with Ethan. Because the very next d
Nate strolled into the office casually, and I watched his reflection through the glass as he paused to look at me for a second. It made my skin crawl when I noticed his gaze sweep down to my butt, and that anger fueled me enough to turn and face him properly. I glared directly at him, while he smirk
Ever since I got to my offices, I couldn’t stop staring at the digital clock on my desk. I checked it again for the thousandth time, feeling a sliver of nervousness as I saw that it was still 10:42 AM.Nate will be here in eighteen minutes.I folded my hands together to stop them from shaking. I was
For a moment, I stared at Richard like he'd grown a second head. We sat there in silence, staring at each other as I tried to wrap my head around what he'd just said. Surely it had to be a lie. Because how on earth could he be serious right now?"You're quiet," he said. "I just... I don't know what
I stood up slowly, brushing my hands against my leggings and heading down the long corridor. I needed to go back and apologize. I needed to look him in the eye and tell him the truth about Nate. I needed to let him hold me and remind me that I was still safe.But just as I turned to head back toward
For a long time after I left the office, I still couldn’t believe what happened. Even as I sat down at our new dining table and silently poked at my steak, it did nothing to stop the wave of nausea that was raging in my stomach. Ethan was talking beside me, but I was barely paying him any attention
I still couldn’t believe that Ethan had bought the mansion just like that. He made it seem like it was a pair of shoes or a painting he liked. It all happened so fast, and I just couldn’t believe it. The first week was entirely chaotic. We spent our evenings shopping for furniture, arguing about th
MARCUSI didn't want to do it initially. He didn't deserve a quick death, after all. But sometimes, when someone pisses you off too much, you just have to take care of things. And when you find out that the bastard who tried to harm the woman you love was only going to a mental institution instead o
From the moment we pulled up in front of the mansion, my mouth fell open and it stayed like that permanently. The house looked like something out of a movie. It was so huge, and my eyes nearly rolled back into my skull as we walked in. There was a grand staircase which swept upward like it belonged
Ethan was discharged the very next day, and I took him back to my apartment. Rachel had traveled down to Miami for a conference, so it was just the two of us in the house. After he’d taken a shower and eaten the lunch I prepared, he immediately sat down to call a real estate agent. “Is that really