Page 3 of Empowered
Carly pushed herself up from her boyfriend’s languid embrace. “Where you going? Somewhere good?”
“New York.”
“Woo! I’d say take me with you, but I ain’t got any money.”
“Sarah goes to New York a lot.” Nigel stared at his sister from his perch on the couch. “Every other week, basically.”
Sarah stopped halfway to her room.Don’t give me that look.What right did Nigel have to be so judgmental? Not like Sarah ever told him what she did in New York. He probably thought his sister had a boyfriend or a sugar daddy paying her to come see him in Manhattan.
He was almost right. Sarah certainly did go for romantic purposes.
She played Little Boots on Spotify while eating dinner and flipping through a magazine. A wind down before a bath and packing. Or maybe the other way around. She had missed Angel.
Deep in Sarah’s walk-in closet was where she kept most of her items for her trips to New York. A few sexy dresses she had amassed over the years, some of them so out of style they were in again. Lingerie as sheer as the rain. Fuck-me heels she had to practice walking in before packing them. And a long, curly blond wig that fooled many people into thinking it was the real deal. Maybe a dye job, but real hair nonetheless.
These were not things Sarah Clayborn wore. Oh, God, she would never. Not plain and boring Sarah, who didn’t know how to act any different. No. This was the flirtatious wardrobe of Angel, the persona Sarah adopted whenever she went to New York City for the weekend.
She loved Angel, the woman who was everything Sarah was not. Angel could flirt with, fondle, and fuck a one-night stand without second guessing her motives. She took on the risks and rewards Sarah would never dare to trifle with. Same body, different mind.
The wig fit snugly over Sarah’s head. Already dressed down in a baggy sleepshirt, Sarah admired the come-hither way her persona could bat her eyelashes and get whatever she wanted. Men, money, and madness.
For a woman who had so much power taken away from her in such a short amount of time… well, Sarah wouldn’t hate Angel for being the empowered one. As long as Angel shared the spoils, anyway.
