The Players Plate Novels & Stories

I released him and backed away. "I am not a player and what happened to Aunt Danielle was an accident," I said "Not a player, you say. Why did you walk to Grace's table and leave Camela with me? And as far as Danielle, if you wouldn't have gotten into trouble that day at school, she would still be here with me," he said

Heather and Pheobe kept making remarks about that and I was honestly shocked that Psyche maintained her sweet smile through the night. After that awkward introduction between Heather and Psyche, we were finally called to the dinning room for dinner. And since Pheobe, didn't inform anybody that Heather was coming, we were one setting short and the long table was quite full already. Were were the last to come to the dinning table so everyone is already seated with the empty chair remaining was beside Heather. "Oh, there's a table beside the window. Please place the table setting there!" Pheobe instructed the maids, and everyone just stayed quiet.

Luckily she hadn’t caused any trouble so far. I wanted to join the fun mood but something just kept weighing me down. I was seeing another part of reality I was oblivious to and was also scared to confirm it, so I decided to brush it off. I guess I wanted to be a coward and runaway before even starting. “Let’s play a game guys to keep it fun, and everyone is participating.” Aileen says as her gaze lingers on Derek and Alec like they were most likely to opt out but luckily they didn’t. “So what do you suggest?” Halsey asks as he passes me a plate of barbequed meat with veggies before flashing me one of his million-dollar smile.

I frowned at him. “Liam! Be positive! Leah might be the girl who would finally make our player quit his games.” I told him. Everyone on the table looked at me for a second before they all burst out laughing. Even Damien joined them. The girls on the table were crying from how hard they were laughing. “Do you really believe that, E?” Sarah, Kara’s best friend asked me as she tried to stop laughing.