Page 18 of Ecstasy

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I hold him tighter, my arms around his neck.

“It’s okay, princess.” He kisses the side of my face. “Go to sleep, yeah?”

Yeah. Like I could stop myself.

But his words echo in my head. “I’ll fucking drown you in my pool.”

Alex already tried to drownme.

He pulled down my top.

He’s an asshole.

I can’t even manage a nod to his words, but despite all the shit he did, I still think it back.Yeah.

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When I wake up,Alex is snoring softly beside me.

It’s still dark outside, but I blink a few times, make out the time on the alarm clock beside the bed.

It’s four in the morning.

My head is pounding, my throat feels like sandpaper.

What the fuck happened last night?

My hand goes to my chest and I stifle down a scream as I realize I’m fucking naked. It’s not that I’ve never woken up naked beside Alex but we…

Fuck.

I can’t really see Alex in the dark, but when I slowly move away from him, I realize he’s naked, too.

Did we have sex last night? Did we make up?

I try to remember, but everything is so damn blurry.Not again.

This shit has happened one too many times the past three years. I bite back a groan, slowly slide off the bed and plant my feet on the floor.

My hair is damp, and I taste chlorine in my throat.

The fucking pool.

I feel something against my toes and squat down, grasping for it. It’s my…clothes. What I was wearing before I stripped down to my bikini in Alex’s room. Before we got into that fight and he tried to kick me out.

I feel my hand out blindly, the room so damn dark, and find my tank to, too, and in the back pocket of my jeans is my phone.

I use the flashlight on it to quickly get dressed.

Big thanks to the MVP who brought over my shit.

When I’m dressed, the jeans feeling very bizarre against my bare ass, I walk out the door, realizing with a jolt we’re in the guest bedroom. Alex is still snoring behind me as I pull the door to and stand out in the hall, listening.

It’s silent in this house. So different from all the people and the noise and the music last night.

Speaking of…what the hell happened last night?

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