Page 1 of Virtue & Vengeance

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ZANDER

I TOOK EDEN’S VIRGINITY, and it was the best fucking thing I ever did in my life. Yet, I was a mess. I was sick and twisted up inside, feeling disgusted with myself for giving in so easily.

I relapsed.

Jumped off of the fucking wagon and right into an angel.

I stood outside Dr. Dempson’s office feeling more broken than I ever had.

Not even after I woke up next to a dead woman did I feel so terrible. I guessed in a lot of ways I’d murdered Eden, too. Closing my eyes, I could still see the heartbreak on her face when I left her.

I’d fucked her.

I broke through her barriers, snatching her virginity like it was nothing.

The sex was completely normal.

Totally vanilla.

No blindfolds.

No handcuffs.

Nothing out of the ordinary.

Yet it had been the best sex I’d ever had.

Then I fired her. Crushing any ideas she may have had about anything more with me. The fact was, I had nothing more to give.

Sure, I had money.

I could buy Eden anything she wanted and more.

I could offer her protection and anything else she might need, but that was it.

I wasn’t the emotional type. I didn’t feel anything for women. Hell, I didn’t feel anything for anyone. I’d been that way ever since my parents abandoned my kid sister and me.

I had nothing else to give.

I was nothing, and she deserved something. She deserved the fucking world and so much more.

When Dr. Dempson opened the door, I saw the shock on her face since I hadn’t called to set an appointment beforehand. But then she smiled at me as if she knew I was having a seriously bad time and turned to the side, giving me space to slide past her and into her office.

“You’re lucky you caught me, Zander. I was just on my way out," she announced as I brushed past her. “I'm assuming something happened for you to show up like this?”

“I slept with her,” I blurted.

That was far from what we did, but I didn’t think Dr. Dempson would handle it to well if I told her I fucked Eden so hard she squirted all over the bed. Just thinking about the night before had me hard in my expensive designer jeans.

“Okay.” She moved across the room, grabbing her trusty notebook and pen before sitting in her usual chair. “With the new girl? Eden, correct?”

“Yes.”

But Eden was far from a girl.

A girl wouldn’t have been so brazen with the things I wanted from her.

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