Fading Dignity_Bully Romance_A High School Bully Romance by Mila Richards

Author:Mila Richards [Richards, Mila]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-08-20T05:00:00+00:00

9

I blinked. And life changed. Just like that. The kind of silence that rung as we sat in the car on our way home, was the kind of silence that was meant to kill. That and the fact that I’d gotten into a car with a drunk driver behind the wheel made me almost certain that – no matter how professionally Brett maneuvered the vehicle – death was just around the next corner.

I cringed with each turn.

Cringed with each bump.

Cringed as he honked the horn at someone who wasn’t moving fast enough.

My breath caught in my throat, I pressed my eyes shut and begged the lord to forgive me for all my sins. A lot, coming from someone who committed a sin just a few moments ago. Someone who, if this moment wasn’t taken away, wouldn’t be opposed to sinning all over again with Brett.

The car slowed and one at a time, I peeled my eyes open. We’d been traveling long enough to make it back home. Except, ahead of us was some of the deepest, darkest woods I’d ever seen. Brett turned to face me, catching my chin with the tip of his finger.

“I need to forget,” he said and the words stung every single inch of my heart.

I pressed my lips together, not knowing what to say or how to say anything at all.

“I need to forget,” Brett repeated and the desperation in his tone the second time around, made me know that it wasn’t me that he needed to forget, but me who he needed to forget with. Somehow, that hurt even more.

I shook my head. “Brett…” I whispered.

“I need to fucking forget, Jade.” The words were yelled, the roar followed by his fists against the steering wheel. “I want his throat between my hands and I want my fists between his brain and I’m fucking terrified, Jade. I’m terrified because I’m not sure that I won’t fucking kill Pete the next time I see him.”

“You have to think about…”

“My future,” he laughed, stripping the sound of all the humor a laugh typically carries. “A future of darkness and pain and just…so much fucking anger. That’s what I need to think about?”

Daring to reach forward, I swept his hair away from his face and stared into those ocean blue eyes. They were way too beautiful to be as sad as they were. Way to knowing and way to proud and way too tormented to exist in this world. “You need to think about the future you could have. A future where the past is just the past and the pain doesn’t hurt as much as the happiness heals,” I whispered. “You need to think about the things you could have. The things your mother would have wanted you to have. We can pray all we want, Brett, but you and I are smart enough to know that there’s a slim as hell chance that heaven exists. But as slim as that chance might be, if your mom’s

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