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Pulling Strings

Author: Jennifer Reginald
last update Last Updated: 2025-03-26 22:17:39

Tiara

The card pings against the card lock of our suite and I all but scramble in.

I can feel his gaze pinned to my back with an unnerving intensity as I walk through the sitting area to my designated room, but I don’t turn around not trusting myself to be logical. I don’t know I can hold on to my control if I see that look in his eyes again.

“Goodnight, Tee,” I hear his voice behind me and I nod, flushing a bright red as my hand rests on the doorknob.

“Goodnight.”

Inside, I let out a pent up breath I didn’t know I’ve been holding since we left the yacht. It was crazy reacting to him like that, but what was even crazier was knowing that if he had wanted to take me right then and there, if he had wanted to fuck me senseless on that yacht, I would’ve given in without so much as a shred of resistance.

Taken off my clothes, I make a beeline for the bathroom, standing in the hot shower, playing back everything from tonight in my head. What was that about?

It’s like whenever he is close to
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    Tiara“You may say your vows,” the priest’s voice bounces across the garden, loud and clear for all to hear.I have never been so happy in my life.As I look across to the groom, watching his face light up, my heart swells with pride, joy and love.My father recites his vows just the way we practiced, without all the nervous glances and anxiety sputters he sported during the rehearsal. His voice is loud, sure and as bold as a voice can get.He is staring deeply into my mother’s eyes as he says the words, and I have to stop myself in time before a tear escapes my lids and ruins my makeup.Across from me, directly behind my father, Ryan gives me an obnoxious wink that somehow threatens my ability to keep a straight face and still sends shivers down my spine.“I totally saw that,” Melody whispers from behind me and for the first time I regret my decision of letting my mom choose Melody to be something like an assistant maid of honor.It’s almost a whole year after I woke up from coma in t

  • Ex-Periment: Fake-Dating My Sister's Ex   Love

    TiaraHe tugs at my hand, “Listen to me, Tiara,” he manages to sound firm, “what happened wasn’t your fault. If you’re looking for someone to put the blame on, put it on me. It was all me. I told Ciara about the child I was stupid enough to do that”I shake my head, “She was bound to know eventually. Which means this was bound to happen.”“I brought you into this, I orchestrated the whole thing with Ciara. Blame me, Tiara, don’t for one second think it was your fault.”“No,” I whisper against his neck, “no, Ryan. Everything was worth it because of you.”He kisses my hand, “when I found you there, lying at the bottom of that hill,” his voices catches and the tear in his eyes drops, “I thought I was too late, it was over, I thought I lost you… I thought…”I raise my head and caress his cheeks softly with the tip of my fingers. He holds my hand to his face, his voice cracking, “The doctors said you might never wake up. I was so fucking scared, Tee. I was … I couldn’t bring myself to leav

  • Ex-Periment: Fake-Dating My Sister's Ex   Beep

    TiaraBeep. Beep. Beep.The sounds are faint, distorted, like somehow, my head is dunked underwater and I am listening to the dim sounds from above.I listen as the time slips by because really I do not have a choice, it is all I can do anyway. My limbs are stiff, my whole body feels numb and my ears seem to be the only thing that is working.At first, I can’t make out the words, it is more like a blur, a light buzz in my state. But as time goes on the words drifts to me, clear as a dream.Hence, I listen to the occasional tearful, “Is she going to be okay?”And the hundreds of masculine, “I’m not leaving her side, you’re gonna have to fucking drag me out and put me on a fucking wheelchair.”And the usual, “If you think I’m gonna let the stupid authorities handle this you must be joking.”And the sporadic, “You’ve got to get up, Tiara. The sunset is wasting every single day.”It takes me a while to figure out the voices and at first it comes as a kind of disturb to my otherwise peacef

  • Ex-Periment: Fake-Dating My Sister's Ex   Jackson's Guilt

    TiaraHis eyes bore into Ciara’s as he steps further inside.“Jackson?” I call.“You fucking tricked me!” he spits out, his eyes on Ciara.Why isn’t he looking at me?!Ciara blinks at him. Then at me. Mirroring the same confused expression on my face.“What are you doing here?”“What the fuck do you mean?”“I mean, you’re supposed to be one state away, back in New York.”“Well, change of plans. They are on their way to Connecticut.”Wait . . . what?!“What?” Ciara voices my thought.Jackson looks exasperated when he says, “Your father. He told them about his properties in Connecticut. You didn’t foresee him ruining our plans when you made this hell of a plan?”Our plan?“What are you talking abou – Jackson?” Confusion is eating away at me and his ignoring me isn’t doing anything to help my state, “What do you mean our plan?”As expected, he ignores me again. “You said YOU WERE FUCKING PREGNANT!” he barks instead, spit flying everywhere.“A slip,” Ciara shrugs, “so what?”“Yeah?” the l

  • Ex-Periment: Fake-Dating My Sister's Ex   Collateral

    Tiara“What happened to you?” I ask her.Ciara has gone unnaturally silent in the few minutes after she whacked me across the face and I don’t want her to entertain anymore riling thoughts in her head.“Talk to me, Ciara,” I almost cannot recognize my own voice. Blood is spilling from my lips and from a cut in my forehead. My eyes are dazed but I don’t have the time anymore to register my pain and put all these in thoughts.I watch as her lips shift into an unamused smile, “You stole from me, Tee. You’ve been doing it for a long time now you are quite good at it.”“But we can fix—” she snorts, “listen to me, Ciara. Let’s fix this. We can turn this all around. Untie me, let’s go home. We’ll talk about this around a hot cup of coffee and we will forget that this ever happened.”She makes a short barking sound that is between a laugh and a short ‘ha’ sound. “You’d want that don’t you? You’d want all that and more.”“What are you talking about? We can talk about this. And Ryan? He can—”A

  • Ex-Periment: Fake-Dating My Sister's Ex   The Search

    RyanMy hand pushes the door to a bedroom open.Empty.Then a bathroom, a guest bedroom, the closet.I hear Melody doing the same all around the house, coming up with the same results as me – nothing.This is the third house we have been to within the span of time I called Grace and now, and we still haven’t found a single thing. Not a single thing to boast of.Grace was panicked when I made the call, frantically begging me to do something, anything, to bring her daughters back. ‘Daughters’ as in plural.I didn’t stop to think about what she meant.The physical manhandling of the cop in New Jersey might get me to jail eventually but for now it seems to be doing more wonders than naught and it didn’t take up to an hour before the sirens filled the air and a search warrant was issued.Tiara James-Lemptons is missing.If the cops are not going to take this serious then they’ll have to deal with the media on their necks 24/7 for the next month. That got their asses moving.I also informed

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