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Why the hell am I falling apart when he’s like this? And I wasn’t the one who took a man’s life.
Even if I did wish doom on him.
“That’s where you’re wrong. If this is found out,wewill go to prison, for I will report you as an accomplice.”
“But I didn’t do anything.”
“Let’s see whose version they believe. If you say nothing, this entire incident will vanish. We stay afloat together or we drown together. Is that understood?”
I nod once.
“Good girl. I was confident you’d keep a secret.”
My tremors turn into something entirely nefarious. I can’t believe I’m feeling hot and bothered at him praising me when there’s a dead body just a few meters away.
My moral compass seems to be taking the weekend off. I blame the alcohol and whatever pill I took earlier tonight.
This isn’t me.
“W-what will you do about…” I trail off and jut my chin in Oliver’s general direction.
“Don’t concern yourself with that. You need to promise me something to ensure the survival of our alliance.”
“What do you want?”
He strokes his thumb on my trembling lower lip. “Marry me and I’ll bury our secret.”
36
ELI
PAST
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Ava refused to follow instructions and go home.
Ever since she picked up pissing me off as a sport, she’s been an infuriating thorn in my side who’s often scheming with Landon to make my life hell.
In theory, I shouldn’t care about her attempts to rile me up. More so, they shouldn’t even have the capacity to disturb my immaculate control. I have no clue when this change began, when I set her in my sights as a possible target.
It could’ve started the day she so foolishly wrote me that letter. No. I genuinely thought of her as a naive kid who didn’t know what was best for her at the time.
I began to notice her vicious pink aura when she made it her mission to drive away all of the women I fucked after she enrolled in uni. She acted like I was the devil incarnate and insisted on letting me and everyone else know how much she hated me, but then she schemed with Lan to push away any possible prospects.
So I did the same. Eye for an eye and all that.
But truly, I wished to delve into her deeper, see her for the chaotic pink ball of energy she truly is.
I wanted to find her weaknesses and bring her to her knees before me.
However, the more I find, the deeper I want to go. I’ve seen her hide from her best friends just so they won’t witness her at her worst. I’ve seen her smile and laugh while her eyes were screaming for help. I’ve seen her looking in the mirror and reciting her name, age, and her love for cello while seeming as if she were staring through herself.
Perhaps it started then, or when she danced with small-dicked fools while her fuck-me eyes were set on me. She probably thought it was a harmless provocation but it’s backfiring and will have the most dire consequence on her life.
Ava Nash should’ve never planted herself in my path.
She should’ve never vied for my attention.
Because now that she’s got it, the world as she knows it will be flipped upside down.
