Page 45 of Reaper's Rival

“Go well together?” He finished her sentence, and it made me sick. I didn’t hide my disgust on my face.

“You don’t be with someone because ‘you go well together.’ You be with someone because you fucking love them and not being with them breaks your heart and makes you do all crazy things.”

Where was my sister that loved to draw? Where was my sister that loved the romance novels? Hell, WHERE WAS MY SISTER ALTOGETHER?

“Kim, you are going to give yourself a headache. Daniels and I are together. Expect to see more of him. Now we have to go, we have a dinner date.” Abby waved for me to move, but that wasn’t happening.

“What’s Blake got on you?” Screw the twins’ secret promise. I knew what those red flowers meant. It was a warning. And now all of a sudden, a month later she ends up with his right hand. Yeah, that is real believable.

“Move, Kim,” she said firmer, the friendliness in her voice gone. “Now.”

Daniels looped an arm around her, pulling her to his side. “You know Kim, I never picked you as the jealous type.” He leaned in closer to me. “Then again, I never pictured you at all.”

“Well, clearly you can picture yourself with my twin!” I yelled in his face, and then I looked at Abby. “I know you are being forced to be with him, but I can help you get out of this. We got out together once. We can do it again.”

“Kim, just stay the fuck out of my life. I AM WITH DANIELS. And nothing you or Dad say will stop it.” Abby tilted her head to the side. I knew she was about to say something awful. “You should focus more on your boyfriend and the way he fucks anything that walks and less on mine. Because unlike yours, my boyfriend is faithful. So move. Now.”

A tear slid down my cheek. She really hit home. Did she do that on purpose? To make sure I realized I was in a terrible relationship? Hell, it wasn’t even a relationship. Trigger didn’t love me. I stepped out of her way. She smiled when I did. But I wasn’t finished. I grabbed her arm as she walked past me.

“You are a cold bitch, Abby, and that coldness and bitterness you keep inside you will be bathing your baby. I pity that child of yours because it has a mother like you.”

She looked me squarely in the eye. “Just stay the fuck out of my life, Kim. I really don’t care what you think.” Just like that, she turned and walked off under Daniels’ arm.

I didn’t know it was possible, but Abby had changed. That wasn’t my sister. That wasn’t anything like her. I wiped the tears off my cheeks. That might look like my sister, but she was gone. I looked up, seeing Reaper looking at me with pity.

If she had said that to me, what the hell had she said to him to make him like this? He looked like he knew what it was like to be on the receiving end of Abby. How had a month turned my sister into a completely different person?

One month and that was it; she had changed into…was there a word for that?

Abby

“So who is this?” I asked looking down at the man I had just killed in his leather computer chair while Daniels deleted the footage of us entering.

“Someone on the board. You know we are knocking these guys off quickly.” Daniels played on the computer, doing his magic, and I looked around the study. So many books.

“Is that your way of saying I can finish early?” I asked

He smirked. “What was with earlier? Why were you so mean to Kim? I still don’t understand why you want to lie and say we are together. You could just tell the truth.”

“Kim can read me. She knows my reactions better than I do. If I don’t push her away, she will find out why I am faking a relationship with you. Then Dad will find out and because he will think it is his problem, he will go to prison for it and end up dead. So it’s best if you and I play the game and everyone wins.”

“You are forgetting one part,” Daniels looked up over the computer screen at me.

“That being?”

“When we are finished, you won’t have any friends or family. Who is going to look after you then?” Was he implying for me to join the gang again or was he just trying to scare me?

“I don’t need anyone.” It was the truth. I had got myself into this. I could get myself out and when I did, if I didn’t have any family members still talking to me or friends, well, I’d handle that then.

I knew me being with Daniels was telling Dad I had turned on the club. Hell, that was the impression I gave Reaper. I had made everyone think that I would rather sleep with their enemy. I still don’t know how Dad was letting it happen.

But for once, he listened to me. Believed me when I said I liked Daniels. And I was thankful for that because lying was one thing, but getting away with it was another, and I was soon realizing just how hard it was to get away with the lies you create.

***

It was late. But I wasn’t late enough. I could hear the roar of the music and the laughter, so I knew I was in for a club party.

I walked through the club doors and made a beeline for the stairs. But I wasn’t quick enough because I caught a glimpse of Reaper with Andy. He had picked her out of the lot. He mightn’t think I knew about them, but I did.

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