Chapter 11

LEAH

I’m not going to lie, I feel a little happy.

Please don’t judge. I get it. I’m THAT girl.

The dumb one. The oh-you-got-your-heart-broke-again one.

The one who sits home waiting for him to call.

But what most people don’t know is that Aaron was the one to

sit up with me when I had nightmares. He was the one to insist

I learn to trade and to obtain my Series 7 license so I’d have a

career. Aaron is the one to stare me in the eyes everytime he

joins his body to mine.

And, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know it’s just sex.

But it’s not.

It’s more than that.

I know it. I believe it.

And deep down, I love him.

As rough and cold as he can be, I know there’s more to him

than he lets the world see.

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grab

the middle of the prep table. It’s ripe

hell are you smiling

It’s Jessica.

down

goddamn shampoo commercial. Ugh.

on my grave.

thought saddens me.

be Aaron’s wife. But I am. And I have been for a long time now. You don’t have

then snatches the apple from my hand. She

it into the compost bin.

always be trash. And if I had my way, we wouldn’t just bleed you once a month, it’d

which

sins.”

her. “I

were committed, Jessica.”

of my parents are dead.

lost cousins

that way.”

She huffs.

know of it? You’re a human. For

why he even bothers to keep you

pack.

That hurts.

for her

If I’m being fair, he was hers to

to be some sanctity for

We

count for

you’re doing, Jessica… it isn’t

“I don’t care about you, Leah.

think that

with being nice to

it’s the only warning I get.

down my arms as she grabs

across the

door and stay

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