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I stared in complete shock at him. The last thing I expected him to say was that. I assumed he’d threaten some more before just running off to tell her. I knew he had some fucked up reason for sticking around her after all the years, but to think it was the same reason me and Caleb were after her blew my mind.

I thought he was just fucked in the head and liked to torment her over some little crush. And maybe he did and thought this would be a great way to twist the knife on her since she always pushed him away.

Caleb stared in shock at Damien. Before Caleb could open his mouth to protest, I spoke.

“You’re out of your fucking head if you think I’m letting you anywhere near Lily.”

The smirk Damien had been wearing morphed into something ugly and dangerous. “I think you’ll want me to join you. If you don’t let me play with her too, I have no issue going to her right now to divulge all the shit you two are planning. Try to get your way out of that.” He held up his phone for me to see he’d been recording the entire conversation.

Motherfucking prick.

“I bet she’d love to know how the two people in her life she cared most about are conspiring to fuck her together as a means to take what they think belongs to them.”

The sickness on Caleb’s face grew, his body trembling.

“Jace, we can’t let him join. She hates him?—”

“I know,” I answered, glaring at Damien who had the balls to continue smiling back at me. He looked like the cat who got the cream. So smug. He wasn’t bluffing though. I knew this asshole. He never bluffed. If Damien Fletcher said he was going to do something, he did it. He didn’t fuck around. He wouldn’t hesitate to run to Lily and ruin everything.

The rage surging through me morphed into something darker, more sinister. Damien and I had a long history riddled with hatred. We’d been best friends once. So close we were practically brothers. Inseparable growing up in the same social circle, our fathers the best of friends. It seemed inevitable that we would be too. Everything went to shit when his old man fucked my mother and caused a divorce between all our parents. We competed in everything after that. Women. Sports. Friends. Status. All of it. Sometimes he’d win. Sometimes I would.

This wouldn’t be something I’d let him win though. I’d never told Lily about my mom fucking Damien’s dad and it being the reason my family was so broken now. Or the reason hers was.

“You think we’re going to just step aside and let you join us?” I glared at him, wanting more than anything to plant my fist in the center of his face.

Damien shrugged, that smug as hell smile still on his face. “The way I see it, you don’t have a choice in the matter. Let me in or I blow your plans to fuck. Then I’m the hero who gets to fuck her. Maybe I’ll record it and send you the video or upload it online for everyone to see. Bet you’d love that. I think the headline would beDamien Fletcher Fucks Golden Boy Jace Adam’s Girl.I’ll hashtag itcreampieor some shit too. You know, to be extra.” Damien glanced to Caleb. “Be real shit to lose her, huh, Caleb?”

Caleb’s face twisted in fury, but Damien continued. “Lily will cut you out of her life like a fucking tumor if she finds out you had a hand in this. She trusts you with everything. You’re her best friend. The only one she has left in the world. Imagine how broken this would leave her? All your chances with her…gone.Poof.Up in smoke.” He made an explosion gesture with his hands.

Caleb looked like the air had been sucked from his lungs. The panic flashed in his eyes, his body tensing further.

Fucking Damien.

He was right. He was pushing all the buttons I’d pushed when I’d cornered Caleb with my plans.

Fucking turning tables. The taste of my own medicine was rather bitter. I locked eyes with Caleb, hoping to hell he was catching the silent conversation I was pushing at him. By the look in his frantic eyes, he understood.

I looked back to Damien. “You’re a fucking prick.”

“I’m just looking to get what’s mine too. If you two get to share her, then why not just make it three? Seems only fair.”

I glanced back to Caleb one final time to take in the sick look still on his face. We both knew what was at stake here. We were backed into a corner and had no place to go but forward.

And forward meant with Damien Fletcher.

“Fine,” I spat at Damien. “You’re in. You don’t fucking tell anyone either or I swear to everything there is, I will cut your fucking throat before I piss on your corpse.”

Damien’s grin widened as he stepped forward, his dark eyes sparkling with the wicked the devil had pushed into his soul. “Deal.”

I hated Damien Fletcher more than anything I’d ever hated in my life.

But for Lily, I’d endure.

Chapter 6

Damien

Lily Parker was always meant to be mine. I thought I’d won when my father married her mother, but that was shot to shit when he cheated with Jace’s whorebag of a mother. Everything came crumbling down, ruining all my fucking hopes for something more with her.

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