Total pages in book: 24
Estimated words: 22496 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 112(@200wpm)___ 90(@250wpm)___ 75(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 22496 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 112(@200wpm)___ 90(@250wpm)___ 75(@300wpm)
“That’s because she doesn’t go on and on about it all day like some people do with much less.”
“What’re you two grinning about so secretly over here?” Shane came up on my other side and bit my ear playfully.
How things have changed. A year ago I’d have run scurrying in the opposite direction if I saw him coming. I never would’ve believed in a million years that things could change this much.
Now look at us, all of us. Belle has the hots for what she would’ve formerly called a jock, the hottest guy I know is now walking by my side, and my friend and I are now part of the in crowd.
Not only that, but Jace Saunders, the town’s wealthiest teen and heir to more than I can imagine, has had me over to his home more than once. I even slept there, and now this. Though Xmas is still a few weeks away, I’d already got my gift.
“We were just discussing Mandy’s face.” His face changed and he looked straight ahead. I should’ve kept my big mouth shut. These guys were already looking so intense.
I’d forgotten that this was about more than Mandy finally getting her just desserts. When he turned back to me it was obvious that his smile was forced and that feeling in my tummy grew heavier.
3
Mandy
I now know what it means to slowly die inside. I was suffering a slow painful death as I stood there. There was a scream building inside me that I fought to contain, because I knew that if given release, it may go on forever.
My head was near to exploding. It felt like any second now my world was going to implode. I was holding onto my resolve by a thread. Fighting hard not to give up hope, but the only thing I could possibly take away from what he’d just done, is that it was really over between us.
If that wasn’t bad enough and hard enough to take, the stupid wanna be kids who attend this shitty school all seemed to be applauding his announcement and some were even congratulating her; right in front of me, even though she was long gone. How fucking humiliating.
When I get rid of that bitch I’m going to make everyone, anyone who even talked to her, pay. Through my anger I held onto a little bit of hope. No matter how things may look now, there’s still a chance. As long as I’m breathing I have to believe that.
I still have to believe in my ability to win Jace back. It’s my only chance of getting what I want; the only thing that would satisfy me. He’s the best this town has to offer, the heir supreme and I will not settle for anything less.
I didn’t get this far by giving up, letting go. So why would I start now? Now that it was so important. I just need time. Time and a surefire plan to get rid of her. She’s the reason for all my troubles. Get her out of the picture and there will be nothing left standing in my way.
As for Jace’s little act. He’s probably going this far because he’s mad at me for behaving out of character last night. Something I well understand from our brief time together. He always was very stoic when it came to that sort of thing.
As the son of the premier family in this town he would want his future wife to comport herself accordingly. I must remember that at all times. Now that I think about it, there was very little doubt she’d instigated that shit last night to make me look bad in front of him.
That conniving bitch. I secretly seethed as I remembered how easily I’d fallen into her trap. She had to have known that Jace was standing there and had deliberately egged me on.
I hate that she’d got one over on me, that she’d beat me at something. I will never accept that she was better than me at anything. A little nobody hick from some backwoods town with no real standing to speak of.
And yet Jace seems to be so taken with her. He looks at her like he’s never seen anything like her before. What the fuck is that about I ask you? Does he know how stupid he looks? What a laughing stock he would be if he kept this up?
There’s no way he can be planning to take this farce any farther. I’d long believed that he’d only put his ring on her finger so he could get in her pants.
She seemed like the type. One of those mealy mouthed bitches that trapped men with that stupid line about saving their virginity.
Yes, there’s no other choice but to get rid of her once and for all. It’s the only way I will live down this latest humiliation. The only way I can go on living. One of us has got to go and since I was here first, not to mention ten times better…