Provoking the Enemy by M.E. Clayton

Author:M.E. Clayton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, bully, young adult, alpha, enemies to lovers
Publisher: M.E. Clayton

Chapter 14

Ace~

I didn’t know what time it was, but I knew it was too early to be up.

Granted, I hadn’t fallen asleep until the nighttime hours had technically turned into daytime hours, and the sleep I had gotten was shit. But lack of sleep was the least of my problems.

Ava stuffing me in the closet last night had really fucked me up. And then hearing Elise talk about how many guys she’s caught in Ava’s room had really done some damage. It wasn’t that I cared how many guys had been up there, I knew she had a past and a wild one at that. My issue was that she had hidden me. Why would she hide me when every other guy before me had been flaunted loud and proud?

It put a chink in the theory that I thought what was happening between us was different; special. But Ava really was a slut, and I really was just another dick in a long line of dicks.

I decided to quit being a pussy and got out of bed, showered, changed, and headed down for some breakfast. Or lunch, depending on what time it was.

Walking down the steps I was greeted with the sight of suitcases taking up the bottom of the huge ass foyer. My stomach rolled as the first thought to pop into my head was that Ava was leaving.

I saw my dad emerging from the back of the staircase and I jerked my chin towards the suitcases and asked, “What’s that?”

He watched me with a wary eye as I descended the steps and finally stood in front of him. “We’re cutting our stay…short,” he answered.

“Is that so?”

He sighed. “Ava brings out the worst in Elise, and their…volatile relationship is causing Elise a lot of undo stress,” he explained. “I think it’s best if we head out earlier than scheduled.”

“Ava brings out the worst in Elise,” I repeated. I cocked my head. “Are you sure it’s not the other way around?” As much as I was finished with Ava, I wasn’t blind to how evil Elise was.

My father put his hands on his hips and dropped his head in defeat. I couldn’t imagine the stress that came with being surrounded by people who you were supposed to care about but couldn’t control. That had to be hard for a man like Greg McIntire to accept.

He looked up at me and I could tell he was choosing his words carefully. “Maybe you should come with us, Ace,” he said. “Maybe, just…it’s summer. We’ll be in New York for a month, and then Florida before having to make the trip to Japan. Maybe you can fly back before Elise and I head for Japan.”

I shook my head. “You don’t want me tagging along any more than I want to tag along,” I told him. “I’m here because you don’t want to have to tell your friends and colleagues that you’re sending prison packages to your only son every quarter. I’m not here because you give an actual fuck about me, Dad.

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