"Acted first?"
"Acted last?"
"What the hell is that all about, Jo?" He spatted out incredulously. "What gets to me was that you acted at all! Don't I deserve a chance to see how this panned out between us? Don't I deserve to see if this... if we, worked?"
I stared up at him flabbergasted.
"You and I know each other inside out. We were never a one night stand. Don't you think if all I had wanted was to fuck you, that I would have done so already? I already knew you wanted me. Hell I think everyone knew that."
I gasped with humiliation and outrage over that. Even if what he said was the truth. I have been in denial over that very fact for six long years. It proved another undeniable truth. I was mad.
Insane.
Crazy.
Why else would I be here still? Subjecting myself to this outstanding humiliation.
I gulped hard to hold back my tears of self-pity. It really wasn't fair. I can't help how I felt. If I could I would have stopped feeling already. I certainly wouldn't be feeling anything over Eric. He was too smug, obnoxious and positively evil. Not someone to arouse the more tender of feelings. Unless that someone was me of course.
I seem to take the initiative to fall for all the most vile people on Earth. Except for Jace of course. His fault had been only that he was too nice. Which was likely why I fell out of love with him at all.
I groaned inwardly at that.
"I see I have rendered you speechless. In awe over my magnificence?" He quirked an amused brow at that and had my palm itching immediately to show him what I really thought of him. But I merely gritted my teeth and held on instead, knowing if I started telling it like it is, we'd be here standing for a long time coming. And i was already feeling the need for sleep. The ass did keep me up awake most of last night. I had a lot to catch up on.
I yawned mightily.
Having a full stomach, clean clothes and a bed waiting was all so very sleep inducing. I was not about to let a lout like Eric ruin another night for me.
Another night of sleep that is. I doubt I could honestly claim he ruined what we did do the night before. Indeed that had been a ruination of a kind. Mine specifically. But I enjoyed that kind of ruin. Loved to go at it again... and again. Only after some much needed sleep, first.
"You think you can use sleep to get out of sorting this mess through with me? I need my food first though. Whats for dinner?" He asked laconically,before stalking off for his rooms.
I gaped after him.
The nerve.
He left me alone in this barren apartment with no food and now has the audacity to demand food of me?
I couldn't believe his gall.
I was still standing there shaking my head in bemusement when he stalked out a moment later stark naked and strutted off towards the kitchen.
The man had no shame.
The clatter of pots and plates sent me rushing after him to save what little I could from total disaster.
"You're horrible. Awful. God damned evil," I found myself muttering under my breath to my inattentive audience as I dished out some fried rice and poured him some red wine to go with it.
With his mouth full, he could do no more than chew on steadily. I busied about clearing up after and putting away the left over food. Then I made for my room.
"If you're thinking to sleep in your own room tonight, you can think again," he hollared after me. "And don't bother with a nightwear either, I'll only tear it off you."
I grunted out an unladylike oath at that. I knew it would be hopeless to argue my way at this point. Eric was nothing if not stubbornly inflexible and I wouldn't want to give him the chance to crow over me once he had wrestled me naked into his bed. We both knew it wouldn't take much effort on his part to do the deed.
I stripped of my clothes and rather than march on back to his room naked, I reached for the discarded shirt and boxer, I had worn earlier today. If he was going to rip anything off me, I'd much rather it be his own clothing.
With an evil smirk of my own, I grabbed the pillows off my bed before I made my way to his.
