Page 17 of Resurrecting the Enemy
However, the guy wasn’t wrong. Lake was the only reason I’d consider going to a town party. It wasn’t that I really thought we were better than them, because I didn’t. Mom hadn’t come from money. Mom had been raised in a trailer park with a loving but weak mother, and an abusive father. And for all that my father was, he’d been born into a life a privilege, Mom hadn’t been. So, in my eyes, I found Mom to be a lot stronger than Dad. Dad was power, whereas, Mom was strength.
And with that, she had raised me and Maddox not to look down on people with less. Aunt Roselyn was the same way. Her mother had married into a wealthy family, bringing Aunt Roselyn to Sands Cove and Windsor Academy. And between Uncle Ace and Aunt Ava, Uncle Ace had been the one raised in normal, so their kids had a good balance, too. We all did. We might be rich pricks, but we weren’t cruel to the less fortunate for the sake of being cruel. Mom would fucking kill us all.
I sent Chance a text back.
Me:U got room 2 talk
Chance:My dick isn’t emotional
Me:(middle finger emoji)
Throwing my phone on the bed, I pulled up my laptop up, and started with my homework. While I was smart with numbers, I still needed to work on everything else. Like Maddox had said, better a smart rich fuck than a dumb one. Besides, my parents didn’t fuck around. It didn’t matter that we all had jobs lined up at RMM if we weren’t inclined to go out on our own. We were expected to take our education seriously and graduate when the time came. And, yeah, I realized how ridiculous that was when they weren’t overly concerned about our possible criminal activities.
An hour later, I’d made some pretty good progress, but my mind was too busy on a certain brunette who hated me.
Me:I meant what I said
Lake:Who’s this?
Me:Who do u think?
Lake:Does privacy mean nothing 2 u?
Me:Not urs
I could lie and ease her into it, but why bother? She might as well get the full dose of what she was dealing with.
Lake:Why r u texting me?
Me:Do u got Eden under control?
That wasn’t why I was texting, but I knew better than to put shit in writing that might come back to haunt me later. And telling her I was obsessed with her, and that there was no fucking way I was ever letting her get away, wasn’t something that needed to be in writing.
Lake:Everything is fine
Me:Keep it that way
Lake:Screw you
I couldn’t stop the smile that spread across my face.
Chapter 10
Lake~
Itossed my phone on my bed, fell back, closed my eyes, and let out a deep breath.
What the fuck was going on?
A part of me wanted to laugh because, of course, Ramsey had my phone number, but another part of me wanted to just crawl into a hole and never come out.
When Ramsey had dropped me off, and walked me to my freakin’ door, Mom had been in the kitchen getting ready to prepare dinner. I had walked over to let her know I was home, and after the smiles and ‘how was your day’, she’d asked who had dropped me off. With all the shit going on in my head, I had forgotten there was a clear view to the street from one of our kitchen windows.
I had lied.
I had told her a new kid at school had been kind enough to give me and Eden a ride home because he was part of the drama club and liked Eden. She believed me and thank God. There was no way I could tell her the truth. If I told my parents Ramsey Reed Jr. had given me a ride home, they’d sell the house and move us to Istanbul.
And I wouldn’t blame them.
