Page 62 of Sold to Her Enemy

He would spiel about the probabilities that Adrian and I got together.

I miss him so much my heart aches.

Hearing footsteps, I turn and my throat goes dry. “Nice party, Ava.”

If Ava were a cartoon character, smoke would come from her ears. “I messed up a note because of you. What the fuck are you doing here?”

“You heard. I’m with your brother. You lost, Ava.”

She stomps over to me.

Instinctively, I move to the side, but I’m too slow. She reaches an arm out, yanking a fistful of fabric from my dress.

“Hey! Get off of me!”

“I told you to stay away from him!” She tightens her grip. The fabric gives and my dress rips.

“This isn’t horseback riding. This is real life, Ava. We’re not kids anymore.”

She can’t get rid of me by cutting my stirrups or reins.

Or by threatening that nobody in the school would talk to me.

I take a step back, disgusted with myself.

I should never have let her have such power over me. I spent my high school days alone, the weird girl who was good at science, whose father was famous but didn’t accept party invitations.

Ava’s threats didn’t make any difference.

What would it have been like if I had told Adrian? I never did because I feared what he’d think of me.

I wanted him to like me.

I was scared of losing Jackie’s warmth. My mother loves me, but she’s always loved my father more.

Jackie and Grace, my riding instructor, made me feel loved for being me.

“I told you to stay away from him.” Her other hand snatches out, grabbing a fistful of my hair.

“Ow! Let go!” I struggle, trying to twist from her grip, but she holds firm.

I try to step on her toes, but she’s taller than me and dances out of the way.

“You did what?” Adrian’s cool tone is a chilly blast into the room, sending shivers down my spine.

Ava immediately lets go of me and runs over to her brother. She throws her arms around his shoulders.

He pushes her off. “Ava, what is going on?”

“Nothing!”

“That’s not. Tell me because whatever Mckenna says, I'm going to believe her.”

The dominant look he gives me makes my pussy clench. He is so serious at this moment, it’s making me want to fall to my knees.

Ava stomps her foot. “You know she isn’t good for you or our family. You know her dad was horrible with money and cost us everything we had. I knew she was trouble, Adrian. I always told her to stay away from you, but she never listened. You were always asking her to do stuff like tutor for you. Why should she get the good stuff? What’s so special about her? That’s why I took that lesson that day, the day the Feds raided her house.”

“You’re the reason Mckenna was at MM Industries?”

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