Cruel Intentions by Mila Crawford

Author:Mila Crawford [Crawford, Mila]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-12-08T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Elis

She tasted like my bitter past and my hopeful future. I couldn’t get enough of her lips or how she felt wrapped in my arms. All those years hurled back at me, the memory of her now a reality.

The other night was about my anger and resentment toward her, all bullshit lies I’d twisted around my heart like a gnarled vine. But this…this was about more. This was about the love I’d harbored for this woman my entire life. A love that had made me a prisoner to the memory of her touch.

She pushed me back, holding me at arm’s length. She gazed at me with eyes that had haunted my dreams for five years. “I can’t keep playing this game with you.”

“Who’s playing games?”

“Come on, Elis. Everything with you is a game. I’m just another way for you to give the elite the finger.”

“I want to give you the finger. Maybe two or three. How I remember it, you liked feeling full. Airtight, as they say,” I spat.

The anger raged out of me. I wanted to hurt her because I wanted her so fucking bad that I couldn’t think straight.

Shock sprang into her eyes before she cast them down. Her hands dropped to her sides and balled into fists.

I knew I’d hit a nerve. I knew I’d hurt her, and I felt like a fucking prick. I never wanted to hurt her. When I was with Devlynn, it was the only time the pain died and left me alone. She silenced all the anger and lulled the voices in my head.

When I was with her the other night, I felt it, the undying need for her. When I was with Devlynn, I was Elis, a guy with the girl he loved. Not an angry, bitter dick with a chip on his shoulder.

We had a history—a fucked-up, tangled history filled with pain and humiliation, and no matter how much I wanted that not to matter, somehow, it always did. The past was a tornado, and no matter how hard or fast I ran from it, it managed to catch up and swallow me whole.

I wanted to kill the ache in my heart for her. I wanted to scare her, make her so disgusted that she’d never let me back into her life again. It was a mistake to abandon her. A mistake that I’d spend the rest of my life making up to her if she’d let me.

I was tired of running. I was tired of hurting. For one second, I wanted to forget it all.

“Why won’t you let me go? Why do you keep this hold on me when you don’t want me? I’m not a toy for you to play with until I break.”

“I have a hold on you? You’ve got to be kidding me. You fucking moved on with your life and didn’t look back. Nothing changed for you, Princess. You were in your tower, high up in the city, untouchable and carefree. I was the one in Brooklyn trying to pick up the pieces.

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