I don’t encourage him, but I underestimated Conor. He’s young, and he’s not as tough as the other guys, but he is stubborn.
“Rory saved me,” he tells me. “I owe him everything. I was a lot like you when he met me and I had a whole lot of nothing going on for me. But now I have everything. Because of him. So it has to be said, Scarlett. If you hurt him… I’ll rip out your cold, black heart with my own two hands.”
Ah, and there it is.
He does have a backbone. And I have some respect for him now. Who knew?
“That sounds fair,” I agree.
And I mean it.
Because I think by the time I’m done with Rory, there won’t be any good left inside of me to save.
Seventeen
Scarlett
If you drinkmuch from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later- Lewis Carroll
Tick.
Tock.
Alexander runs down the clock.
And it’s only a matter of days now, until we meet again.
Agent douchebag probably has an alarm set on his phone for the witching hour.
Reminder:
Ruin Tenly’s life. Again.
Four days have come and gone and only one of them is dead because I was too busy cavorting with Rory rather than doing what needed to be done.
It isn’t like me to be so scattered.
Perhaps it was over ambitious of me.
Or perhaps, it’s something else.
There’s a bottle of Jack beside me, and a pervasive insistence that this all Rory’s fault. I was so drunk on the idea of him killing Ethan that I was blind to it.
Iwas supposed to kill Ethan.
Not only did I not kill Ethan, but I ran straight into Rory’s arms and fell into his bed like some sort of grateful twat.
Who does that? I mean really… who fucking does that?
That line inside of me is going berserk and I’m drunk and I can’t tell left from right anymore.
My living room is a junkyard of paperwork and news articles. Nothing is going to plan and as it turns out, it’s difficult to wage war when your army now only consists of one.
Plan B wasn’t in the cards.
There isn’t a plan B.
But exceptions are made for a reason. I’d rather crawl through a bed of broken glass than admit to Rory I need his help.
