Total pages in book: 24
Estimated words: 22496 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 112(@200wpm)___ 90(@250wpm)___ 75(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 22496 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 112(@200wpm)___ 90(@250wpm)___ 75(@300wpm)
That, I think, was the hardest part for me to accept, the thing that held me back and refused to let me move on. The fact that he could just walk away so effortlessly, like I was nothing.
No one else had the power to bring me to my knees the way he had. It’s like winning the lottery and then losing it all. Thank goodness I hadn’t quite ended up on the streets penniless.
The wound nonetheless, was still deep, and maybe that’s why I can’t give up. I feel like I’ve been left in limbo. Like there was no closure.
That was the one thing that had given me hope in the beginning. The fact that there was nothing said, and everything seemed to be up in the air.
I held onto the barest hope that I could salvage things, that there was no need to give up so easily. And I wouldn’t have had to if not for her. If she hadn’t moved here I would’ve made things right by now.
There’s nothing I can’t do when it comes to men. I learned how to work them from a very young age and Jace Saunders is no different. Or maybe the difference is that he’s the only one to ever touch my heart.
I’d let him in, opened myself up to him in ways I never have before with anyone. And yet I had meant nothing to him, and that was never more evident than after she moved here.
Not only did she move to my town and try to take over the cheering squad, that bitch had the nerve to go after my man. To add insult to injury, no one seemed to mind that they were together. No one questioned how he could give up a catch like me for that little hayseed.
What’s worse, he’d given her a ring just weeks after they met. The ring that should’ve been mine. Don’t think I don’t know people laughed at me behind my back because of that debacle. Though they had the good sense not to do it to my face.
Then as if as a direct challenge she’d gone and befriended the very people I hate, a direct slap in the face. And now she’d gone too far, this is the last straw. I won’t put up with it anymore. Won’t suffer anymore humiliation at her hands.
How dare that little nobody make me look bad in front of Jace and my friends? In front of the whole damn town for that matter. How dare she even think that she could be one of us? Sure her father had money, but it’s nowhere near what my stepdad has I’m sure
They weren’t even part of the entertainment industry, and were barely acceptable if you ask me. No wonder she’d gravitated to the dregs of our little society. Who else would have her?
It should’ve been easy to get rid of her. In fact, I thought that the job would be done by now. If things had gone my way she would be dead and buried by now. But the bitch had nine lives like the stray cat that she is.
I’ve made up my mind once and for all to take care of her myself. I’m no longer willing to wait for others to do it for me because it was obvious no one else could get the job done. And I’m more sure that I could handle her on my own. Something I should’ve done from the very beginning.
Those thoughts had helped calm me down some after my early morning mad, and my imagination had ran wild. I’d been feeling pretty good the rest of the morning, even when I arrived here at school for another mindless day of classes that I was never going to use in this lifetime. And now this.
Jace has just made a public statement in front of the whole school acknowledging that hillbilly tramp. Why? What did it mean?
I tried picking apart his words to find the meaning behind his announcement, slash threats, but my mind couldn’t get past the sight of him holding her hand in front of everyone like that, making a statement of intent I’m sure.
And why did he have to show off that rock that he’d put on her finger? Not that it was easy to miss to begin with.
It was bigger than my mom’s and hers was plenty big. If I had to guess I’d say it was probably the size of his mom’s or bigger, and that stings.
I stood stone faced as if the events taking place had no effect on me whatsoever. I knew others were looking at me, awaiting my response. And though the humiliation was almost more than I could bear, there was no way I was going to show weakness here.
I will not be outshone by her. I have her beat in every way. That’s what I kept telling myself as the blood boiled beneath my skin. She wasn’t good enough to beat me, I won’t let her. Not after all the hard work I’d put into getting where I am. At the top of the food chain at Eden High.