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“You’re an ass!” She pulled out so fro the door behind herself “You could have at least acted like a half-decent huht,” she called from the other side of the door
“If you thought the Trials were going to be easy, then you rong I didn’t ree to any of this,” I shouted back at the door, pissed that I wasn’t facing her head-on “And I’ door!”
I walked over to a chair by the fireplace with scotch in hand and decided to ignore her for the rest of the night We weren’t going to get anywhere while ere both heated, and although this went against everything I believed in for a Dominant-and-subht
She eventually cas and a tank top The simplicity in her appearance reminded me of just how beautiful she ithout all the special effects makeup and attire
Not that I was going to tell her that right now
“And for the record,” she stated in aus both the tie, “I never expected the Trials to be easy But I did expect to have a partner in this I expected to have soh it all What happened tonight was just… abusive”
Her accusation was like a slap to the face I had never been accused of being abusive inme? Hoas I abusive?”
“You forced et the tattoo”
“The Order of the Silver Ghost forced it The Trial forced it Hell… our entire fucked-up situation forced it I sih with a co, then I damn well expect us to do it with perfection”
She folded down the comforter on the bed and flopped on her side “Yes, I know, Emmett But your perfectionist self and your sick need to please the Elders and be thought of as the best is exhausting Why the fuck do you care so much? Who cares if we didn’t perforht? I sure as hell don’t”
“I don’t like your language, and I definitely don’t like what you’re saying And didn’t your mother teach you how to speak like a lady?”
My words seemed to slap her in the face just the sa abusive did to me
She was silent for several moments, and I took the time to drink my scotch and try to cal, but the woman had the ability to fire me up
“I thought you were different from the rest of them,” she said softly “But you are just as e is everything to you You’re part of the sickness that plagues this place What you aren’t willing to face is that you will never fit in here Never You are new h behind your back The life you’re trying to live is fake Everything is fake”
“That’s rich co from you You are the queen of fake I had hoped you were different too, Bellaetsout of her hand and putting her on pedestals”
Tears welled up in her eyes, but she blinked them back before she snapped “You’re just the sah school that worked so hard to have everyone like hi now It’s pathetic You’ve never had a backbone, and right now, the only thing you’re showing the Elders is just hoeak and needy you are You want their approval so badly that it’syou a coward”
Unable to control lass of scotch across the roo from the wall “Then let’s call this off now,” I boomed “I don’t need this shit”
Her eyes widened, but she didn’t move from her place on the bed “We can’t We have to finish”
“I don’t fucking need the money or the stress And you don’t need the ht now see like a caged tiger “You’re right about one thing I have been trying to please the Elders, because that is the fucking point of the Trials But I’m done I’ve maxed out Let’s call it”