Total pages in book: 87
Estimated words: 87911 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 440(@200wpm)___ 352(@250wpm)___ 293(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 87911 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 440(@200wpm)___ 352(@250wpm)___ 293(@300wpm)
“Chloe,” Alfie said. She pulled away from him as different shots of her with him showed up. The changes over the past six months as she came to feel about him. At first it showed her being hesitant with him, and gradually, she saw herself change. Rather than brush off his touch, she basked in it.
Everyone saw her fall for him.
The entire town.
“All of this was a lie?” she asked. “You planned this?”
She couldn’t look. The tears kept on falling, and no matter how many times she tried to swat them away, she just couldn’t make it stop.
“Please, I didn’t do this. We were being filmed without my knowledge.”
“You wanted to do something like this, though. Make me pay, for what? For not understanding my dad’s love of your stupid club!” She screamed the last bit. “I told you the truth. I told you everything, and this is what it was all along. Some stupid lesson because you couldn’t handle that I was different? That I wasn’t searching for some kind of ticket to make me part of your fucking world.”
“Chloe, I swear—”
“What? You swear what? This wasn’t all part of your plan?”
“Not anymore, okay? Yes, it started out as punishment. As me wanting to show you that you weren’t better than us. But I never made that tape, and I never wanted this!”
“Congratulations, you got your wish. Now everyone knows.” She turned on her heel, needing to get away. People were laughing, smirking and it was still playing in the background.
She got it.
Message received, loud and clear.
“Chloe, don’t go.” Alfie reached out to grab her arm, but she pulled away.
More than anything, she wanted to smack him across his smug face, and tell him to go and eat shit, and to hurt him. The pain inside herself was more than anything she could bear. She felt the betrayal everywhere.
“The entire town,” she said, gritting her teeth. “Don’t come near me.”
“Chloe, please, I swear to you, this wasn’t me. I fell in love with you.”
She laughed. “You really expect me to believe that?”
“Not after what you just saw, but everything was real.”
“No, it wasn’t real, Alfie. I don’t know when you changed your mind, or if you ever did and it was changed for you. I don’t know. What we started, it’s not real. You only did this to hurt me. Your main ambition in getting close to me was to cause me pain. Congratulations, you achieved what you set out to do. I’m not some virginal girl anymore. You fucked me, loud and clear. Now stay away from me. I mean it.”
She backed away, and turned, not daring to look at anyone as she pushed her way out of the crowd, and away from him.
In her head, she kept on chanting the same thing.
She should have known. Shame on her.
****
“Shit, dude,” Ian said.
“Find out who filmed us, and bring them to me.” Alfie wanted blood.
Lily and Eagle broke through the crowd, and the fire in her eyes made Alfie’s blood turn cold.
“Where is she?” she asked.
“Lily, sweetie, we can handle this.”
“She didn’t trust you, you know. She was scared that you would try something like this, and I told her that she was too cynical. You will stay away from my daughter,” Lily said.
He’d never seen such hatred in Lily’s eyes in all of his life. He’d put that there because of what he’d done.
He watched, and it was like he was having an out-of-body experience.
“I can fix this,” Eagle said.
“No, you can’t. You can’t turn back the clock and stop that. I can’t marry you, Eagle. I can’t be with someone who raises a son to do that kind of thing to my daughter, and I would never put her through the kind of pain your son did. We’re through.”
Alfie watched with a sinking heart as Lily removed the engagement ring she’d not long ago slid on her finger and gave it back to his father.
This shit wasn’t going to end well.
Whoever had filmed him, done this, well, they had a death wish.
Lily turned on her heel and went the exact same way her daughter did.
Alfie watched her go.
“Dude, you need to leave,” Ian said.
Eagle approached them. “I suggest you three get your fucking asses to the club, now. If I have to come hunting for you, I will personally cut your dicks off and make you eat them.”
Alfie watched his father go.
They were still alive.
For now.
He didn’t know exactly how long that would last.
Probably not very long.
“Fuck!” Alfie rushed toward the back of the movie screen to see the man in charge fast asleep.
“You think he’s been drugged?”
Alfie didn’t know what to do. He grabbed the equipment and pulled out the tape. Whoever had filmed him better leave town. He was going to come for them.
With the tape in his hand, he tucked it into his jacket.