Lavender:"You know he will get very angry with me if I did so," I pointed out, and Igor shrugged."So what if he tells you to sleep with him? Would you do it because you're afraid of him?" Igor asked, trying to make me understand that if I kept being afraid of him, he would make me do more things."He will not ask me to sleep with him."That just slipped out of my mouth, and for some reason, I felt like slapping myself. They were already in a state where they were hating everything Nikon was doing, and then I was making them see that, oh, I trust Nikon with at least some dignity."Did you hear that, Igor? One trip with him and she thinks he is the best man in the world," Easton said."No, I did not say that. All I’m saying is I am fucking scared of your brother!" I yelled, finally, tears coming into my eyes."Don't raise your voice at me," Easton snapped, finger pointing at me once again, and I stepped back."You know you're making me feel like a fucking bastard who is sneaking into
Lavender:"What are you trying to imply?" I asked, curious what they thought of me now."Igor saw you in the kitchen with Nikon."The minute Easton brought that up, I understood what was bothering them."Oh, so he saw it, and instead of asking me about it, you thought you should just make out with me and then we will argue so that your mood is not ruined while we are doing it," I complained, bobbing my head a few times as I paced back and forth anxiously."Do you just love to assume and make things up about us?" Easton said.He always had a different approach to arguments. He was mostly calm, collected, and would not lose his posture. Whereas Igor would get very aggressive. He would visibly look anxious, just like me. He would raise his voice, say hurtful things, just like I did. I guess that was because we were closer in age than Easton was, so he was more mature than us."We thought we would just not ask you about it, and just carry on to see if it was a one-time thing where you had
Lavender:I felt strange after Igor overheard me speaking casually to his brother. I guess he expected me to be rude to Nikon all the time, which to be fair, might’ve been the right thing to do. But I didn’t want to piss off Nikon when I was still trying to teach my stepsisters and my mother a lesson.Besides, being rude to Nikon all the time wasn’t a good idea. He could be deadly when provoked. I just didn’t understand how Igor seemed to forget what his brother was capable of.“Where are we going?” I asked, sitting in the back seat of their car.After Nikon left for some back-to-back meetings, Igor had come to fetch me, and I found Easton already sitting inside. Now, the two of them were driving me somewhere. They had been unusually silent the whole ride, so I had a feeling they were upset with me. It felt like they might take me to some secluded place where it’d be just the three of us, so they could confront me.“Our mansion,” Easton said, sounding almost offended that I didn’t rem
Igor:“She is home,” I told Easton over the phone, watching her get out of the car with Nikon, along with the list of bags she hadn’t taken when she left. She didn’t look upset. In fact, she was eerily cheerful.“Really? How is she? She must be so traumatized,” Easton said from the other side. He had taken a little break from filming just to answer my call when I told him it was about Lavender. Of course, he would make time for her, no matter how busy his schedule was. And same for me, I would do the same for her.But as I watched her looking so happy, something broke inside me. Not that I wanted her to be unhappy, but this happy?“I don’t know, Easton. She seems very happy, almost like she’s skipping when she walks,” I muttered. There was silence on the other end before Easton probably came up with an excuse in his mind.“Well, I’m happy she’s happy. I’m pretty sure that’s because he didn’t annoy her or upset her. There wouldn’t be any other reason for her to be that happy, except fo
Lavender:“Were you angry back there that she was hitting on me?” Nikon asked, making me shift in my seat on the couch. We had returned home after I lost my appetite, and Nikon had sensed it, so he excused us. I liked how attentive he was to details. If only he were the husband of my choice.Once we got home, he ordered food for me. I ate plenty, and now I was back on the couch, ready to sleep.“I wasn’t. I just don’t like people seducing someone and then acting like they were the victim. And from the looks of it, I could tell you were going to reject her, and she would make up a lie just to frame you,” I said everything I had been rehearsing in my head throughout the car ride. I had a feeling I had acted a bit aggressively back there, so I knew Nikon was definitely going to bring it up.“Hmm, interesting,” Nikon said, taking off his shirt after coming out of the bathroom post-shower to get ready for bed.“But Lavender, what makes you think I would’ve rejected her?” He turned to me, e
Lavender:The girl was pretty, but she seemed quite weirdly attracted to Nikon. I have seen her bite her bottom lip when her brother was speaking to Nikon. And then she spilled the drink on Nikon. I had to calm him down because it seemed like he was going to lose his mind."How about I take you to the restroom," she said to Nikon. Her eyes were wide, and she was blinking them quite softly and dramatically. I was not born yesterday. I have seen girls act like this around men that they are attracted to, and like I said, she was. It was pretty obvious."Yeah, sure," Nikon said under his breath.As he walked away, I watched her follow him upstairs. I stood still, watching them disappear, and then something started to itch me. I did not like her going after him. The way she was checking him out had already led me to believe I could not trust her. But then again, why was I so concerned? It is not like we married out of love.After a few minutes of silently looking around and feeling uncomfo