He walked over, staring at me for what felt like forever before finally speaking. “Audrey, enough is enough.”
+25 BONUS
After the party ended, I stood by the roadside, arms crossed, waiting for my ride.
Lex’s car pulled up. He rolled down the window, face ice–cold. “Get in.”
1 shook my head. “No need. My husband’s on his way.”
His laugh was sharp, mocking. “Audrey, how long are you gonna keep this up? Lying to everyone else is one thing, but fooling me? Come on.
“Who in Rivandia doesn’t know you were so obsessed with me you’d rather die than let me go? A woman like you–who’d actually want to marry you?
“Get in the car, and I’ll forget you snuck back here.”
His tone turned sharper with every word, irritation clear as day. When I didn’t budge, his brows pulled tight, and that familiar look of disgust flickered across his face. “Don’t tell me you’re really someone’s sugar baby now. Who’d be desperate enough to keep you around?”
I tilted my head, smiling faintly. “Mr. Hamilton, did you have a sugar mama before? Is that why your mind goes there? Only people with dirty minds see dirt everywhere.”
Lex froze, like he’d just bitten into something rotten.
His glare sharpened. “Audrey, what happened to you? How did you turn into this?”
From the way he looked at me, you’d think he was heartbroken.
Me? I hadn’t changed a bit. I’d always had a sharp tongue. My mom used to scold me for it all the time when I was a kid.
Even when I first set foot in the Hamilton mansion, I was the same way. I remember the first time I talked back to someone there–Lex had laughed beside me.
“Girls should be a little feisty,” he’d said. “So no one pushes them around.”
Then Ivana showed up. Suddenly, I wasn’t “elegant” enough. I wasn’t “gentle” enough.
So I dulled my edges for him. Made myself smaller. Quieter.
Not anymore.
Ivana sat quietly in the front seat, pretending she wasn’t totally eavesdropping.
When she noticed Lex’s growing frustration, amusement flickered across her face. Ever the gentle, perfect peacemaker, she finally chimed in “Audrey, how can you talk to Lex like that?
