Page 120 of Endgame
He made it clear to everyone in the room that he was going to take my virginity.
And as if none of that happened, she’s blaming me. If Everett hadn’t had sex with me already, I would’ve marched home right now, waited until he was back from work, and offered my virginity to him out of spite.
“So if you know it’s not him, does it mean you know who my real parents are?” I swallow my pride, demanding the truth from her. While she’s this shaken, there are better chances of her slipping-up.
As I wait, a sudden feeling comes over me. The hair on the back of my neck stands on end.
I’m being watched.
Ready to run away from Cormac, I raise my head to see where he is.
Nowhere.
The woman who gave me the phone sings to her baby. People in scrubs go back and forth.
“We deserve to benefit from you.” I can picture her cruel scowl. The grinding teeth. “But you just keep failing us. First, as a thief. Then, as a whore. Shame on you.”
“Shame onyou.” I’m so over her. Over both of them. At least when Everett’s being mean, he’s passionate about it. If I’m lucky, I get a sliver of kindness from him. She and Dad were always cruel. Always. “You were going to whore me out yourself. You’re just mad I did it on my own terms.”
My own terms.
That’s hilarious.
The truth is none of her business.
All they know is that I went into Everett’s chambers with a sentence hanging over my head and came back out hours later as his fiancée. That’s all she’s getting out of me.
“Hmm.” The clipped sound sends chills up my spine. This is worse than her screams. She’s up to something. “You’ll pay for this. Both of you will.”
The line dies.
I start laughing another one of my weird, untethered laughs.
I keep laughing as I hand the woman back her phone.
I laugh all the way to the room where Gina, Cormac, and ten lonely babies wait for me.
Molly, making Everett pay?
Yeah, right.
He’s the monster who slays other monsters, not the other way around.
My husband is the strongest man I’ve met.
The man who’s slowly but surely stealing my heart.
The one part of me I swore I’d never give to anyone.
No one and nothing will get to him.
For better or worse.
Everett is invincible.
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