Scraps X Tisha Novels & Stories

“You told me once you were addicted to my face. Said it was your drug. Well… it’s gone now. Just scars. So please—go find someone whole.” “I’m so sorry, Jake…” Ariana choked out. “Sorry?” I laughed bitterly, my head shaking. “I wish sorry could fix it.” And then—something warm touched me. A hand. Small. Soft. Real. It was Liz. I knew how her hands felt. “Jake…” Her voice was soft, trembling. Her eyes were dripping with tears, but she didn’t look away. She wasn’t afraid. She wasn’t disgusted. She was just… there. She touched my scars like they were nothing, tracing them without being disgusted.

"Hey ugly bit**. Wanna try?' Someone's interrupts my count and I look up ,afraid at the intruder. To see the same girl who has been persistently being too friendly. With tattoos all the way down her arms. Piercings, almost everywhere on. Her lip, eyebrow... A cigarette in her between her fingers, as she offers it to me. I gulp and move my head in a no, ignoring her and lowering my head back in my arms. Continuing my count. 45000024.....45000025...... "Your loss. Anyways I have an inside information for you."

"We did it." A hysterical laugh bubbled out of me. "We have a client. A real, paying client." He pulled me out of my chair and into a fierce, spinning hug. We were laughing, giddy with the sheer, stupid improbability of it. We had built a raft from scraps, and it was floating. That night, we celebrated with the last of the good wine Matteo had brought. We sat by the fire, the laptop closed, the business papers pushed aside. The future was still a cliff face. The smear campaign was just beginning. We had one client, and a mountain of problems.

Devin's face turned deathly pale, and his voice trembled with sheer disbelief. "What do you mean by that?" Seeing his eyes lock on the battered tin in her hands, Vanessa let out a mocking laugh. "Exactly what's on your mind right now. "You spent the whole day throwing a fit, demanding to see Shirley, right? Now that I've brought her to you, why don't you have the courage to open the tin and see it for yourselves?" Scott pressed a hand to his chest and stared at my memorial portrait blankly. "No, this can't be real. You must be lying to me."

I can't be angry with Ruby—she's acting as she always does—nor can I be annoyed with Jaden, who has fallen victim to her sexual choices. "I've been looking for you, Tasha," Christina said as she emerged from the crowd with a glass of bizarre blue liquid in her hand. She handed it to me. "Ted was drunk and in love. He got bold and made me promise to give this to you. It's a cocktail made from a special Malaysian recipe, and..." "I'm not going to drink it," I interrupt her. "You can throw it away."

he shrugged. “Why?” she asked annoyed by her excessive nosiness. “Well...... I'm not sure if you will understand but when I hold a paper the words don't seem to focus...and I have to work harder in placing them"he shrugged. "Have you considered getting a spectacle?"she asked.

NICOLE'S POV When I was leaving the visiting room, I didn't see Ruth anywhere which means she already left, I guess I was too carried away with my conversation with Asher and I didn't notice her leave. As soon as I stepped out of the visiting arena, I saw Teresa. She's a guard here and she carries out all my requests... When you have money like I do, you can actually make anyone work in your favor. To be honest, prison life is not that bad when money is involved, I actually have everything I want apart from freedom of course but now I need a phone.

Just then, hurried footsteps came from behind us. "Kayden! Mr. Shaw!" We turned. Alisha came running toward us, slightly out of breath. She looked at me, then at the massive model in Xavier’s arms, clearly struggling to process what she was seeing. "Honey, you didn’t go clear out the Patek Philippe boutique, did you?" she asked cautiously. I rolled my eyes and waved my phone smugly. "Clear what out? I just had dinner and stacked coupons with reward points. I saved $20!"

She ended up working at a burger place and even had to pay him back. Alexander dealt with everything super fast and confidently, but everyone still called him names like 'jerk' and 'heartless' and said he 'should've seen it coming'. The Blake Group's stock prices took a nosedive. However, that was not for me to fret over. The richest man in the country could handle his own problems. I was too busy getting Mom into a better hospital and sorting out my daughter's school stuff in Itania. Ever since she got back from Fiorenza, she could not stop dreaming about that artsy place. Honestly, I was over Arcland. It was time for us to start fresh somewhere else.

Leah started to feel that taking the initiative to get to know Scarlett had been a huge mistake. Because of her friendship with Leah Reeds, Scarlett actually began to enjoy her time working at T.B.S. Empire. Whenever they would get a break from hours of intense work, they would go to the store downstairs together and buy a whole bunch of snacks. At lunchtime, they would laugh and coo at endless loops of cute cat videos on Youtube.