The Token 5 (New Adult Dark Romance) by Eros Marata

Author:Eros, Marata [Eros, Marata]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tamara Rose Blodgett
Published: 2014-04-11T04:00:00+00:00

~ 8 ~

“Oh my God. What. The. Fuck?” Kiki asks as I stand at her door in a numb stupor. Kiki pulls me inside her condo and closes the door.

She leads me to her kitchen table. A place where I've told my secrets, shared my joy—my sadness.

“You—sit,” she says. She races to the front door, throws the latch, and jogs to me, taking my hands.

Her hands feel so warm.

“Okay, do I need to go cut off a dick?”

My face crumples, and my stomach churns. I’m not nauseated because of the little one in my womb. I’m nauseated because the father hates me for leaving him. I hate me for leaving too. I'd do nearly anything not to go.

“Or two?” Kiki asks, stroking my palms, her fingers rough against my scar.

I shake my head, my hair sliding over the thin nylon shirt I put on.

Inside out and backward.

“Okay, let me think.” Kiki taps a bright nail on her lip. Leaning forward, she pegs me with her all-knowing gaze.

“You told him.”

“I did,” I croak.

“And... he rejected you.”

My tears answer her.

“Well, that bastard.”

We're quiet for a second.

“Okay, I know ya love him, but why do you look like you've been run over by another motorcycle?”

My laugh sounds like a sob.

“Oh honey,” Kiki says, kissing my hand, “Kiki's here, baby. I don't care if you have two months or two hundred years—I love ya.”

I inhale sharply. “I know.”

She waits. A miracle for Kiki.

“He said that I brought heaven to him... then sent him straight to hell.”

Kiki's face scrunches up. “Okay, so he's mad.”

“Yeah,” I answer softly.

“Well I'm steaming fucking pissed too!”

My face jerks up in surprise.

Her eyes search mine. “I dig you. You’re my go-to girlfriend. You’re steady, Faren. You've seen shit and survived. You’re level-headed and put up with my shiny-thing problem.”

I smile despite how awful I feel.

“I'd rather have you die and have known you for five minutes then to have never known you and not have this hole in my heart. The pain is real”—the devotion in her eyes is a balm to my shredded emotions—“but so is the love.”

Kiki puts her fist to her heart, her eyes shining with tears.

Her hand slowly falls. “But this isn't about my anger. It's about how I love ya. And that's what Mick's problem is. He thinks it'll feel better to cut you off. Then he won't feel the pain.”

Maybe... but she didn't see his face when he let me go.

“But the pain's going to follow his rich ass no matter what.”

Kiki cocks her head. “Off -topic.”

My head spins. “Huh? Okay.”

“Why do you have red stains all over your mouth?”

I bawl then. Unglamorous, wrenching sobs that suck the fluid and snot right out of me.

I don't think I'll ever eat another strawberry again.

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