Page 64 of Eves (Carson Brothers)

“So, you thought that by doing this mission he would realise how amazing you are? That he would feel something towards you?”

I could feel the hate rising through my body just staring at her. Funnily enough, I pitied her just as much as I hated her and I hated myself for allowing myself to put a cap on the thought I'd had about her trying to take Kit away from me. I fucking knew something wasn’t right with her from the start and I was mental for agreeing to something so stupid.

“He is connected with you now because you have a baby. If you weren’t pregnant he’d be able to realise how easy his life would be if he’d just picked me.”

“He didn’t pick you before I came along, why would he pick you now?”

“Because don’t you get it? No matter what, he still comes back to me.”

“What does that mean?” I asked, sickness rising in my throat.

“You think the night he came home pissed out of his head that he’d been drinking alone?”

“What did you just fucking say?” My eyes were bulging out of my head, I could feel the pressure forcing its way to my temple.

“Even Kit needs someone to vent to, especially the shit he has to put up with being with you. The fact that he comes to me means something.”

I couldn’t believe what I was hearing.

That night he’d come home pissed out of his head, he’d been with Maddie?

My chest started to squeeze as if I couldn’t breathe properly and hatred bubbled through my veins as I stared at her.

“You’re fucking bat-shit crazy,” I said, my knuckles firming into fists.

I wasn’t sure what I was going to do, I hadn’t even thought that far yet, but clenching my fists allowed me some relief from the anger and torment I was experiencing.

“You’ll see.”

Those were the last words she spoke to me because I could see how she looked across the room to see Kit. She’d locked eyes with him and he looked from her to me, then back again.

He wasn’t close, he was across the room still but was trying to make his way back, excusing himself from various people trying to talk to him. Feeling spaced out, I stared back at him. I wasn’t sure what was happening but snippets of conversations we’d had started playing in my head along with memories until I didn’t quite feel here anymore. Through all of the commotion going on in my head, I could see Kit pushing towards me from across the room and instead of allowing him to get closer I cleared my head and began walking in the opposite direction.

“Eves!?” he called after me over the music and I pushed my way further through the crowd until I reached the hallway that we’d entered through earlier.

I cursed when my dress got caught under my feet and I lifted it before continuing to walk. The second it took to unhook the fabric allowed Kit the second to get closer so he could stop me.

“No, wait, where are you going?" he said, making me look at him.

I couldn’t think straight and instead of speaking I just shook my head like a crazy person, feeling zoned out and lost in my head.

“Eves, speak to me.” He gently shook me but I just couldn’t get myself to speak.

“What did she say?”

I gulped, trying to get my body to work but it was futile. It was as if it was shutting down and I had to fight it to speak. All I could do was think and question everything that I’d come to believe. The more I thought about it, the more faint I felt.

"You've deceived me," I said.

“What? What are you talking about?”

“You went to her,” finally my eyes were allowing me to shed tears.

“You went to her and now she thinks she has some special bond with you!”

He eyed me and started cursing.

“She loves you, Kit. You must love her too because you go to her. You go to her and talk to her about us. About everything.”

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