ECSTASY by KV Rose

Author:KV Rose [Rose, KV]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781999275273
Published: 2020-04-19T16:00:00+00:00

25

Alex

I pick up the bottle by the neck, slam it against the sliding glass door. It shatters into a thousand pieces, the sound soothing my rage, splintering the quiet of the morning.

There are people passed out in my living room, some idiot naked and drunk on a pool chair. Zara is still in bed and I want all these people out of my fucking house. All of them except her.

Fuck.

I run my hands through my hair and hear someone padding down the hall from the living room. I whirl around, glaring at a guy I vaguely recognize as someone on the fucking wrestling team.

His eyes go wide as he stares at the shattered vodka bottle on the floor.

He scrubs his hand over his face, blinking, as if he thinks he might still be fucking drunk or still asleep.

Slowly, his eyes slide to my face.

“You okay, man?” he asks me cautiously, taking a small step back.

I glare at him in answer.

I see him swallow. He doesn’t have a shirt on, his jeans unbuttoned. All I can think about is my fucking father. His jeans shoved down to his ankles while he plowed into that woman in the pool house.

I was fucking fifteen.

I’m twenty-one now and he still hasn’t fucking stopped.

I close my eyes, hands still fisted in my hair, willing it to stop. The memory. The anger. The hatred. The distance between us now.

What he did to my mother.

“Hey, Alex, you need anything—”

My eyes snap open. “Get out of my fucking house.”

The guy nods. Backs away slowly. “Are you sure you don’t need—”

“Get. Out!” I point to the door at his back, in case he doesn’t fucking know where it is.

“Shit,” I hear someone whisper from the living room. “Alex is fucking trippin’.”

And then it isn’t just the kid without the shirt leaving. It’s a fucking mass exodus from mine and Eli’s house. I turn my back to everyone getting their shit together and leaving, and I pick up a bottle of tequila, ready to fling it at the door, too, when someone grabs my elbow.

“Alex.”

A lump forms in my throat at the sound of her voice. I shrug out of her grip and take a step back, lowering the bottle by my side before I turn to face her.

Her eyes are bleary, tinged with red, some of that fucking excessive eyeliner she wears smeared all over her face. She’s dressed in the same clothes she wore last night, not my clothes. She’s even got her shoes on.

“You can’t leave,” I tell her, confused. “You can’t leave right now.”

She glances at the bottle in my hand, her eyes going to the shards of glass behind me, at the sliding glass door. “I’ve got to go,” she says, clutching her phone in her hand. “What…happened?”

I curl my fingers tighter around the bottle, half-expecting it to burst into pieces. But I’m not that strong. If I was, I’d have found a way to tell Mom before she found out the hard way.

I slam the bottle on the counter, grip the edge of it with both hands, hanging my head.

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