In heat with my celebrity cousin.
Every instinct I possessed screamed at me to shatter something, to scream, to make him hurt the way he was hurting me.
A suffocating, manic rage surged past the heartbreak until my vision blurred at the edges. He thinks he won. He thinks he can lock me out, wipe me from his skin, and open the door for another woman as if I am nothing more than a passing phase, a disposable distraction in his high-society life.
From behind the mahogany door, the muffled, steady roar of the shower started up, washing away the evidence of what we had just shared.
I didn't scramble for my clothes like a disgraced girl caught in a trap. Instead, my gaze locked onto his designer jacket slung over the armchair acro