Adrian: A bully romance by Shel Stone

Author:Shel Stone [Stone, Shel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-08-10T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

CECILY WAS STARTING TO go out. Adrian saw the evidence of it on Morgan’s social. Losers and nobodies. In the photos he saw, she wore this burgundy short dress with see through sleeves. Her hair was tied up and tendrils of it escaped. Cecily always looked like a princess when she dressed up. And some loser Wall Street dude was eyeing her like candy. Clearly drunk with his arm around her shoulder.

Energy surged through him. From their recent discussion, she’d stated she’d be out of reach and like this, she was. Hanging with plebs and nobodies. That dude was probably some cornfed Kansas boy with ambition to make it in the big city. The city was full of the type. Pulling out a cigarette, he lit it, unable to put his phone away.

Morgan had turned into a steadfast friend, which was a problem. The problem with Morgan was she kept herself clean and didn’t go in for ambition. For hating people with ambition, it was really annoying to come across someone without any. Who would have figured Cecily would end up making friends with the only person in school who stood behind the underdog and didn’t care if everyone turned against her? How was that for bad luck?

That loyalty was her weakness. Which meant he’d focus on Mishti, who was ambitious enough to be manipulated by it. Morgan would seek to preserve the friendship if given the choice. Loyal people didn’t give up on their friends, even after setbacks. Mishti was the key.

Total alienation had a clear setback. Cecily was effectively out of reach. What good was an enemy if you couldn’t touch them. It was her strategy—she’d said so in English Lit. Her intent was to be out of reach, and right now, she was succeeding. In order to defeat her, he needed to reel her back in. Her defiance was something he could use. Her pride. Something he’d underestimated, but it was strong.

Was it possible to make her defiant enough that he could get her to one of his parties? It seemed like an insurmountable challenge.

Scrolling through his phone, he called Seb. “Where are you?” Seb was at some bar. “I’m coming, but I want you to invite some of the junior girls, including Mishti.”

Seb wasn’t one to question why whenever asked to invite girls. If asked to invite fifteen freshmen girls, he’d probably do it without thinking twice. Girls were just girls to him, a commodity—a perspective Adrian was increasingly losing interest in. Finding someone to fuck was stupidly easy. Finding someone to fuck with was much more rewarding.

Getting up, he walked to his wardrobe and pulled some clothes on. With a plan in mind, the malaise he’d felt had lifted. Things were moving again. He was moving again.

Unwilling to sort the driver, he took a cab instead and instantly regretted it, because it smelled. That should teach him for being impatient. And traffic was crap.

The music was perfect when he walked in, filled the air, but not so loud you couldn’t hear anything.

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