Total pages in book: 114
Estimated words: 139789 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 699(@200wpm)___ 559(@250wpm)___ 466(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 139789 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 699(@200wpm)___ 559(@250wpm)___ 466(@300wpm)
I folded my arms across my chest.
"Yes."
"When you left the room he told me that no relation of his would ever be in committed relationship with a whore."
I blinked. "Well, you fucked his wife a lot of times, I'm sure he didn't want to keep that trait of yours runnin' in the family."
Alec cut his eyes to me so I looked down.
"I told your uncle that I didn't work for Marco anymore, and Marco agreed that I was no longer his employee, but your uncle didn't care about any of that. He didn't want me to taint you."
"I fail to see how me uncle wantin' to protect me from you made you cheat on me."
Alec shook his head. "Do you really not see where I'm going with this?"
I shrugged. "Should I?"
Alec scrubbed his face with his hands.
"Keela, your uncle told me I had to make you hate me. He said I had to do somethin' to push you away from me... He told me I had to sleep with Everly and Dante and to make sure you knew about it."
I blinked as Alec's words entered my mind.
I tried to process them, I really did, but it hurt my head and chest.
"Why are you sayin' this?" I whispered.
"Because it's the truth. He told me I had to make you hate me... and I did."
I swallowed. "If that is true, then why didn't you just tell him no?"
Alec frowned. "He said he would kill my family if I didn't do it. He said cheating on you would make you hate me and never want to see me again. From the looks of things he was right."
I didn't reply.
Uncle Brandon made Alec do this?
He wanted me to be hurt?
"He held me as I cried," I whispered.
"I'm so sorry, Keela. I truly am."
I walked out of the kitchen and down to my bedroom where my phone was.
"What are you doing?"
"Ringing me uncle, I need to hear this from him."
I closed my door to keep Alec out.
I dialed my uncle's number when I had my phone in my hand and fear gripped me.
If Alec was telling the truth then I couldn't trust my uncle anymore, my most beloved family member... But if Alec was lying then I was still going to be left miserable and heartbroken because of his cheating.
There was no good outcome.
"Keela? Hello baby girl-"
"Is it true? Did you make Alec do it?" I cut my uncle off.
Silence.
"What did he tell you?"
I sobbed. "That you told him to cheat on me or you would kill his family."
My uncle swore but he didn't deny it.
"Uncle, is he lyin'? Please be honest with me, I need to know the truth."
My uncle sighed and after a long pause he said, "No baby girl, he is tellin' the truth."
I broke down into tears.
"Why? Why would you want me hurtin' like this?"
"Because you deserve better than a whore!"
"He is not a whore! He was forced to work for Marco because that bastard held the threat of hurting his family over his head, just like you did! He would have never done it if you didn't back him into a corner!"
Silence.
"I can never trust you again, do you understand that? You have lost the ability to call me your niece. I'm fuckin' done with you!"
I heard my uncle’s sharp intake of breath. "I was tryin' to protect you from getting hurt, Keela."
"You caused me to get hurt, Uncle!"
"You deserve better than him!"
"I deserve to decide for meself who is good enough for me! I deserve to be happy and you ruined that for me. I hate you for it. You lied to me face! You sat in that hotel room back in the Bahamas knowing good and well what you did and you let me hate him!"
My uncle was at a loss for words so I hung up on him.
I kept my phone in my hand as I opened my bedroom and walked down the hallway and into the kitchen where Alec was still leaning against the kitchen counter top.
"You were right."
Alec frowned. "I'm sorry, Keela... I had to tell you the truth, it was killing me."
I nodded my head.
Alec pushed off against the counter and I think he was going to hug me, but I stepped back letting him know that it was not what I wanted.
"I told you the truth. Why can't I touch you?"
I looked away. "Because I can still see you touchin' them."
Alec looked tense as he whispered. "But I told you the truth."
This hurt.
"I know you did, I know you had no choice-"
"The only choice I had, was to be with you after the welcome dinner and I had to be with you Keela. There was no bad intent or ulterior motive, I just wanted to feel like you were mine. You have no idea how much I feel for you."
I swallowed. "It doesn't change anythin', Alec. I can still see you with them and it makes me skin crawl."
Alec stared at me for a long while without speaking and it was during this period of silence that I knew what I had to do. Uncle Brandon would still most certainly want me away from Alec and he would keep good on his word about harming Alec's family if I didn't.
I had to do what he did to me so he would stay away... I had to make him hate me.
"Please, don't leave me again... it nearly killed me when I read your note and realised you'd left the Bahamas."
I forced a bored sigh out of my mouth. "Alec, you hurt me and the only reason for that hurt was because I was starting to get attached to you. But it's better that we go our separates ways now, feelin's make everythin' messy."
He looked perplexed. "I don't understand, you told me you-"
"I wasn't meself in the Bahamas, I let the thought of us really datin' go to me head but it was a lie."
Alec was lost. "A lie?"
"Yeah, I don't want you, Alec. Everythin' was just a ruse for me family... nothin' between us was real. It was a just a favour, remember? All fake. I pretended to have feelin's for you to make us seem real as a couple because I wanted to one up Jason. You don't really think I could love someone who fucks people for a livin', do you?" I said my voice cold.