Cam Girl by Leah Raeder

Author:Leah Raeder [Raeder, Leah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, New Adult
ISBN: 9781501115004
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

—8—

VADA: are you awake?

ELLIS: Yes. Hi.

VADA: hi

VADA: sorry about freaking out earlier

ELLIS: No, I’m sorry for barging in. I feel like an idiot.

VADA: don’t

VADA: it was an unplanned private chat

VADA: not your fault

ELLIS: Can I still feel like an idiot?

VADA: okay, but only if I can feel like one too

ELLIS: Why are you still up?

VADA: having a weird ass night

VADA: why are you still up?

ELLIS: Having a weird-ass night.

ELLIS: Plus, you know me. Every time I make a faux pas, I analyze it to death.

VADA: you make the best faux pas

VADA: remember when you got drunk at Umbra

VADA: and went behind the bar and tried to “help” the bartender

VADA: and they kicked us out

VADA: and threatened to call the cops

ELLIS: Oh my god.

ELLIS: How do you remember that?

VADA: I wasn’t as drunk as you

ELLIS: You passed out in the taxi!

VADA: that was just a power nap

VADA: and do you remember when we went to the cat shelter

VADA: and you kept asking how many cats you could legally adopt

VADA: in this really quiet, intense voice

VADA: and they escorted us from the building because they thought you were going to experiment on them or something

ELLIS: If you’re trying to make me feel better, this is the opposite of that.

VADA: #sorrynotsorry

ELLIS: I wanted to adopt them all because they were going to be put down.

VADA: I know

VADA: you big softie

ELLIS: Big psycho, apparently.

VADA: you’re too good for this earth

VADA: we should send you back to Krypton

VADA: with the other supermen

ELLIS: Ha, ha.

VADA: Elle?

ELLIS: Yeah?

VADA: did you mean it, about not moving on?

ELLIS: Why do you ask?

VADA: I don’t know

VADA: curiosity, jealousy, confusion, loneliness

VADA: take your pick

ELLIS: Remember when we threw the key into the ocean?

ELLIS: I meant what I said.

ELLIS: Now please tell me what you were doing at my house.

VADA: trying to figure out who Brandt Zoeller is

VADA: Elle?

VADA: hey

VADA: come on, don’t just ignore me

VADA: I thought you wanted us to talk things through

ELLIS: Did you talk to him?

VADA: who is he?

ELLIS: I can’t believe you’re going behind my back.

VADA: I can’t believe you’re hiding shit from me

ELLIS: Really? You can’t?

ELLIS: After you hid our relationship from everyone?

ELLIS: Made me feel like some kind of dirty secret?

VADA: that’s not fair

VADA: I hooked up with girls before and everyone knew

ELLIS: Oh, so I’m special.

ELLIS: I’m the only one you felt compelled to hide.

VADA: fuck, what do you want me to say?

ELLIS: Something real.

VADA: it wasn’t easy for me, okay?

VADA: my entire life revolved around you

VADA: and one night you decided to just walk out of it

ELLIS: It wasn’t one night. It was every night.

ELLIS: Every night you dangled me on a string while you waited for someone better to come along.

VADA: oh, my bad

VADA: so I was supposed to know exactly who I was at age 22

VADA: and exactly who I wanted to be for the rest of my life

ELLIS: No.

ELLIS: But when someone lays their heart at your feet, you could at least have the decency to say you don’t want it.

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