Page 76 of How to Get Revenge on a Cheating Ex
“Well, she definitely won’t be sleeping withyou.” I’m seething with rage, but I’ll be damned if he sees. “Not sure if you got the memo, but your Bae? She’s with me now.”
My muscles might be twitching with rage, but I look like a goddamn Zen master compared to Grayson. His lips are twitching and his face turns so red it’s practically purple. “She’ll be begging me to take her back once she’s gotten you out of her system. I’m her future. I know it. She knows it. You know it too?—”
“Do I know this, though?” I rock back on my heels, an obnoxious little smile on my lips as I pretend to ponder this. “Do I really?”
His certainty makes me physically sick. I see it in his eyes. He’s furious, yes. But he’s still absolutely certain that Bailey will take him back. I want to kick his ass for Bailey’s sake, but I hold on to control with everything I’ve got.
Because I might be a screwup and an idiot when it comes to school and shit, but when it comes to Grayson?
I know exactly how to take him down.
He takes my silence for a win.
Idiot.
But Grayson recovers. Or, at least…he doesn’t look like he’s going to explode. “She’ll come back to me because Bailey’s smart. And sheneedsme.”
I can’t help myself. “That’s not what she said last night.”
Okay, fine. I’m not exactly proud that I basically resorted to a ‘that’s what she said’ joke, but I’mthisclose to losing my shit, so I’m pretty pleased I came up with any response at all.
He laughs, and the sound is unhinged. “I know she’s not sleeping with you, asshole. And she never will. You know that, right?” He arches his brows as his smile twists into a sneer. “She’s still a virgin.”
I swear I feel a blood vessel burst in my brain. But I stick to my plan. “Is that why you cheated on her?”
His head jerks back at that. The shock in his eyes is so effing satisfying.Yeah, that’s right, jackass.
I know.
I don’t give him a chance to respond.
“Relax, asshole. Bailey never knew.” Not a total lie. She didn’t know…before.
The fact that she knows now? I’m definitely not playing that hand.
The beauty of this plan is that Bailey cheated on him without knowing that he’d cheated first.Shelefthim. I won’t take that win from her.
But that doesn’t mean I won’t use the fact that I know to make him squirm.
“She never knew,” I say again.
And I hadn’t either, but he doesn’t need to know that. From the moment Bailey told me about the rumors of his cheating, I knew how I’d play this.
Like I knew. Like I’vealwaysknown.
Like I’ve been planning to steal his girl all along.
“I knew,” I say, making sure to hold his questioning stare. “But I never had the heart to tell Bailey.”
“Yeah, right.” He scoffs. But there’s doubt there. I’ve thrown him. I can see his mind racing as he wonders how much I know. I swear I can smell his paranoia.
He’s scared to death that Bailey knows.
That’s right, asshole. You live with that fear.
“That’s why she…with you…” Yeah, he can’t even form sentences now, and that’s a good start.
“Nope.” I pop thePlike an asshole. I let him see my smug satisfaction as I lean in close to spell it out. “I didn’t have to tell her.”
