Vengeful Royals_A Dark College Bully Romance by Vanessa Winters

Author:Vanessa Winters [Winters, Vanessa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-09-26T04:00:00+00:00

14

Lila

Brooklyn was all up in arms about prepping for tomorrow’s big winter storm that was headed our way. Jude and I were a bit bemused by this, too. Usually that was something that was taken care of for us. The manor had a full system of generators and back-up generators, as well as an electrician team on call. So we’d never once lost power, not even in the worst storms.

Guess this one would be different, though.

She sent me to the store to grab batteries, candles, hand-warmers, and some emergency foods. All of which overwhelmed me while I was looking at the brands and the colors and the kinds of batteries and candles and handwarmers and emergency food stuffs there were.

I can’t believe people do this on a day-to-day basis.

How did everyone find time for everything else?

“And price check what you buy. Don’t just grab the first thing you see, look around at the cheaper options. We’re on a very tight budget now that none of us are working.”

Brooklyn’s warning rang in my head as I squinted my eyes to read the little numbers on the shelf. Budgets were not something we were used to, but she was right of course. I wasn’t really surprised that our mom had fired her and kicked her out, but it was disappointing. Not just for the money but also so that she could keep an eye on what was going on. From what Brooklyn had told us, however, what was going on was a lot of drinking and smoking.

“Figures,” I murmured to myself.

It took me forever to check off everything on the list, because I was doing my best to follow Brooklyn’s instructions to price check. You could feel the storm coming in the air. Today was clear, but the wind blowing was ominously sharp and cold, and there was a heaviness that promised something was coming.

I had just arrived back at Brooklyn’s house when I heard the single whoop of a police siren. I jumped and turned to see Aiden, leaning out of a state police car and smiling at me.

I sighed outwardly, but inside I was glad he was here. Let him grovel after he’d made me walk all the way home. I hadn’t responded to the flowers and had blocked his number in my phone. So, maybe that was finally the wake-up call he needed to understand exactly what he’d done and who he let walk away from him.

“Li, can we talk, please?” he asked.

“No thanks,” I said. “We’re done, Aiden.”

“Please?” He repeated. “Come on, let me buy you a coffee. I was a scumbag. I just want to make it up to you.”

“I have no interest in dating you again,” I said.

“That’s fine. I completely understand. I don’t expect another chance with you, I just want to make it right. Come on, one cup of coffee? You can get the fanciest one they’ve got,” he smiled.

I softened some. “Alright,” I relented. “Let me just run up and drop this off and I’ll be back down.

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