“What are you doing out here, sneaking off into the woods like a creep?” She snaps with a disgusted lift to her lip.
She can’t have been there long, when she shouted for Asher, she sounded like she was still at the gathering. If anything, she saw me getting up from a crouch that’s all.
“Just taking a piss,” I cross my arms. “What’s it got to do with you?”
She shakes her head. “I saw Asher coming out,” She steps closer to me. “Were you with him?” She shouts. “Did you fuck him?”
For a second, I feel sorry for her. Does she know she is part of a business deal? Would she care as long as she got the crumbs of Asher Vander?
Then I remember all the crap I have had to deal with since getting here, and all at her hands.
I square up to her, making sure I wear nothing but confidence on my face. “No,” Her shoulders relax a bit. “But he definitely fucked me,” I grin and point behind me. “Right over there, against that tree,”
Her face flushes instantly and I almost miss her hand raising. My instincts kick in and pull back just as her sharp nails catch my cheek. I hiss out as I raise my hand to my face, when I pull it back a trickle of blood coats my fingertips.
Wow, I didn’t know Darcy had it in her. I assumed she was all bark and no bite, maybe I have her pegged wrong.
“Don’t get it twisted skank. I can live with you being his thing on the side,” she laughs. “Because I will get the best of him,”
“You mean his money and social standing,” I chuckle.
“No,” She tilts her head. “I get the public displays of affection, I get the family dinners, the marriage and babies,” My grin falls. “And you will always get the dirty forest, getting pushed against a tree. Covered by darkness. Because no one wants anything from you other than what is between your legs,” She looks triumphant, and it’s not surprising. I haven’t even done anything with Asher, but she is right on the money. That is all I will ever be in this world. A world of my father, Asher Vander’s and Darcy’s.
Before I let her make me feel any smaller, I shrug. “Say whatever you need to make yourself feel better Darcy”.
I turn and walk away from her as my nose twitches. Why the hell am I letting her get me like this. Since when did other people’s opinions of me mean so much.
I make my way out into the light, my head down as warmth from the fire hits my skin. I lose my breath as I bash straight into a solid figure, hands grab my shoulders to stop me from falling back and I peer up into the eyes of a man.
Asher.
“Sorr.,” He goes to say before locking his lips. Suspicion and anger fill his face as he glances to where I just came from. Then his brows furrow as his hand comes up to my cheek.
“What happened?” He asks while tilting my head towards the light. “This one is new,”
I pull away, still embarrassed and emotional from Darcy’s words.
“Get off me!” I grunt taking a step back.
“Why are you always injured?”
“None of your damn business. Why don’t you go back to your boring, stick stuck up their arse friends and your plastic bitch of a girlfriend and stay out of my way,” I spit. I don’t know why I am saying these things, I need him for information, but I can’t stop my mouth running. “You think because you have money you can do whatever you want. Treat and use people however you want,” He looks at me confused at my outburst and so am I. I can see Corden off to the side, his wide attention bouncing between us. “I am so sick of men like you! Now leave. Me. Alone!”.
As he opens his mouth to speak his eyes shift to the person emerging from behind me. I turn to see Darcy and her smug mouth lifts to one side as I push Asher out the way.
“Is everything okay?” Corden asks as I approach him.
“Yeah, lets grab Deena and get out of here when no one is looking at us”.
He nods as he puts his drink down on the log beside us before going to find the third piece of our mission group. I glance back over my shoulder and wish I hadn’t.
Asher has his arm around Darcy, her big eyes gazing up at him and I see what she was talking about. Girls like her will always get the light, while girls like me get nothing but darkness. What would a man like Asher want with a damaged and used girl like me when he can have his pick of shiny girls that have never seen the bad in the world. Girls that still have a reason to smile.
I feel the black cloud starting to come over me and I set a reminder on my phone to take my meds and send a text to Corden to meet me back at the main building.
I shake tonight from my mind, because I have more important things to be doing.
Like breaking and entering.
