Total pages in book: 24
Estimated words: 22496 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 112(@200wpm)___ 90(@250wpm)___ 75(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 22496 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 112(@200wpm)___ 90(@250wpm)___ 75(@300wpm)
So last night when I took my baby to bed, I made love to her like I meant it. We spend so much time apart, and though sex is not the leading factor in our marriage, I miss her like hell when we’re apart for so long.
Now she caught me looking across the room at that witch and tugged on my hand. I gave her one of my winning smiles to distract her and lifted the hand with her ring to my lips.
Just a few soft words whispered in her ear was enough to do the job and soon we were leaving the room. Once I get her settled in her class I’ll go see what the hell Jace is up to.
When he said he had to talk to us that shit sounded like ten degrees of ominous. And if he’s about to do what I suspect, then I’m really going to fuck Mandy’s shit up. That’s if Jace’s dad, or even his mom, doesn’t get to her first.
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SHANE
* * *
I couldn’t sleep last night, I knew some shit like this was going to happen, but I had no idea to what extent. I couldn’t help but mourn what we’d just lost. I wonder if the others in that auditorium even understand what they just witnessed.
And now this other little situation. The whole thing is fucked. I didn’t mind the move from the classroom my last year of school. If it meant saving Jace from being there in that room by himself, I can do that shit in my sleep. Not that he would mind either way the mood he’s in.
It’s like watching someone metamorphous into something else. I know my boy’s mettle, know what he’s made of, but I never thought we’d see this day for a long time to come. Poor kid hadn’t even made it out of high school.
I’d walked Tammy to class, along with the others, my mind deep in thought. A lot had happened this year and all in just a few months at that. Shit feels like years. And though some were bad, like what happened here this morning, falling for her more than tipped the scales.
She seemed a little spooked by the whole thing and though she still believed that the explosion had been an accident, Jace’s actions that night and now, were probably tipping her off that I’d lied to her.
That’s something we’d promised not to do with each other. But when it comes to protecting her from bullshit that shit’s null and void. I don’t feel bad about it either. There are just some things she doesn’t need to know about.
But now I don’t know how I’ma tell her about this move. We’ve spent a lot of time together in the last few weeks, in fact when we weren’t with the others as a group she was usually at my house under the pretense of doing homework. My mother had long since given up acting like she’d lost her mind when my girl came over and now usually gave us our space.
So having spent that much time with her, when I wasn’t trying to talk her into having sex, we spent hours just talking. So I know that until we became an item she never felt quite at ease here. Even with her dad being a teacher here. In fact, she seems to think that makes it worst.
Because her family doesn’t have a lot of money like most of the kids here, some people tend to look down their noses at her, one of those people is the girl I stupidly dated for a while. Liz, Mandy’s best friend.
Come to think of it, it’s like Jace and I had both lost our minds when we went playing in that murky pond. At least I’d lucked out there. Liz wasn’t nearly half the nut Mandy is.
Just thinking about her makes me want to knock the hell out of her. She started this mess. It’s been one thing after the other since Jace moved on. And now we’d come to this. She can’t die soon enough!
* * *
CASSANDRA
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I hurried to class feeling happier than I had in a long time while walking these halls. For the past year or so life has been hell. Having to come here each day and see her, knowing what she’d done, and so much more. It was getting harder and harder to face coming here.
I don’t know what I would’ve done had Sian and her family not moved here. Or had she and Jace not become a couple. It was only my association with them that had saved me, and my sanity I’m sure.
Now Jace had put the ultimate smack down on that horrible monster and I couldn’t be happier. The only thing that would’ve been better is if she’d died…better not go there. It’s been a while since I let myself remember that night. And even longer since I stopped worrying endlessly.