Vicious Bet: Don't fall in love! (Sinners and Saints Book 1) by Alice Ann Wonder

Author:Alice Ann Wonder [Wonder, Alice Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-01-31T06:00:00+00:00

Pact with the devil

Lu and I were sitting on our veranda, each one with an iced tea in his hand and a self-knitted scarf of aunt Polly around his neck.

It was still mild outside, but if there was wind, you could easily get chills.

"Are you going to date him now?" Lu asked, after I had told her everything about the professor, down to the last detail.

Everything except the bet.

I was ashamed of not telling my little sister the whole truth. Especially because I knew that it wasn't the rules of p-fiends that kept me from doing so.

I didn't want her to think less of me. I was her big sister and certainly part of her role model - though not the best. She didn't need to know the extent of all my screw-ups.

"No, I don't think so", I refused, not believing a word of it myself.

Lu lifted her eyebrows while sipping her iced tea.

"Well... I don't know," I admitted. "He scares me somehow."

Lu frowned.

"What do you mean?" she asked anxiously.

I breathed out loud.

"He makes me nervous."

The corner of my little sister's mouth twitched upwards.

"And you can't stand it because you're not in control?"

As so often, her hunch was right on target.

"It's complicated," I replied curtly and slipped my fingers under my thighs.

"Isn't it always with you?", Lu remarked, to which I gave a sigh.

"You are afraid of being hurt. That's why you always pick the guys who either can't get dangerous or who have some other flaw that makes them a priori unlikely candidate."

I clicked my tongue.

Sometimes it could be annoying to have a smartass sister like that.

"Edwards has no quirks," I countered, admitting that Edwards actually attracted me.

"Maybe I'm ready to move on to new territory now."

My subconscious added that I wasn't laughing.

Against all external assumptions, I was a coward at heart when it came to feelings.

Lu knew that. She saw through me like no other.

That was both a curse and a blessing.

Thank God, at this very moment my cell phone shrilled and released me from my hot chair.

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