Page 57 of Satan's Son

Chapter 24

Ethan

Addison was as consuming as she was beautiful. We’d finally taken a step, hell, a leap in a direction toward a relationship together and guess how she reacted? She decided to have short-term memory loss.

“I told you, old man, I didn’t touch your magazines.” Her devilish smirk and mischief-filled eyes told me she was pouring gas all over Archie, just waiting for his head to explode. Then Addison, being Addison, would most likely light another match to throw at him, just for the fun of it.

“For the last time, they aren’t magazines! They are newspapers. Newspapers that date back way past your limited existence. They were in order and now…” He held up an old yellow-stained newspaper. “Now they aren’t in order! You did this!” He pointed his finger at her. “Just like it was you who cut all the holes in my trousers.”

“There you go again, speaking like a corpse from the eighteen-hundreds. They are called pants, Archie-bald.”

“Ethan.” Archie was trembling with rage. “Move out and take that with you.”

“You can’t just kick me out!” Addison stomped her feet. “It’s my home now. too.”

“Like hell it is!” Archie snapped back.

“No, that’s where Ethan lives.” She planted her hand on her hips, with a smirk. “Face it, Archie, you love me.”

“It is impossible to love a monster like you.”

“Ethan loves me.”

Their eyes snapped to me. So, now she wanted to remember that it had happened.

Crossing my arms, I stared across the table blankly at her. Of course, I loved her, but now she was using it to her advantage.

“I’m not getting involved with this.” I gave her a pointed look. She hadn’t acknowledged what had happened since it had happened. So, I wasn’t going to give her the upper hand. “You two can fight your own battles.”

Addison huffed like a child while Archie mumbled something nasty in French.

“Why don’t you two agree to disagree?” I suggested after hearing their useless fight for at least an hour.

“I want her gone!” Archie snarled. “Always eating my food., looking at me, making pointed remarks and not to mention what she did to my prize paintings!”

“Not my fault you bought such depressing art. All I did was put some smiles on their faces.” Addison shrugged while flicking rubber bands at him.

Yeah,she was really trying to defuse the situation.

“Come on, Addison, let’s go for a walk.” I stood up, stretching my back. We needed to talk about what we were going to do next and getting her away from Archie, who she was purposely stirring up to avoid conversation with me, seemed like the right step.

“Yeah, take her back to Hell,” Archie suggested before storming off into the kitchen.

A wishful expression came into her eyes. What would she be wishful about? Speaking to me?

“Do you wanna walk or—”

She cut me off. “I don’t want to walk and I don’t want to talk about it. So, you can just leave like I know you’ve been waiting to all week.”

Did she really think that?

“Addy, I’m not leaving you.”

“You’re from Hell, Ethan! You’re not from my world. Literally. I was the one who kissed you, and I shouldn’t have. I shouldn’t have said I love you. I shouldn’t have done any of it because now,” her eyes filled with tears, “I have to experience this.”

“What’sthis?” I moved closer to her but she just took a step away.

“I don’t want to lose you, but I already have. So, what I mean by ‘this’ is that I’m never going to get over you, Ethan Beast, because you’ll be forever in my heart.”

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