“That man better learn to treat me good, ‘cause one of these day's I'm gonna plant a bug up his ass ‘n it's not going to be the eight legged kind.” Diamond’s threat is no idle one.
I know she’ll do it. Scratch that, what I mean to say is I know that she is going to do it.
The groan from Vincent matches my internal one because I know who is going to be cleaning up her mess when she is done.
The only difference between him and myself, I had ten years to learn to figure Diamond out, he barely has one.
That is how long he has been back in our lives.
It is how long I have secretly fallen in love with the man,
KNOWING that he will never love me back.
To Vincent Stone I am just an eighteen year old girl he has to babysit. He always said it.
My stepbrother has never failed to remind me of my non-existent place in his life. It wounds me deeper every time.
But his words only make me bleed on those rare occasions when we're alone.
I fool myself into believing that just maybe he's not so cold,
Just maybe he DOES feel something for me besides me being the nuisance he is stuck to hang around with.
one of those people who remain strong when faced
person that always gets
know that, but even knowing, my heart
nothing there,’ he couldn't have
we are not
related
oh and not friends,
definitely, not friends.
he gets stuck with on a
I was sixteen I crushed on this boy, his name-
eyes and rough falsetto smile, also soon to be the youngest CEO of Kent
something in Kent's eyes that made me blush.
watching his pimple free face, I built up enough courage to ask
me I had to make the first move ‘cause I was a Bray. No guy in their right mind would ask me out, least not a fourteen
wasn't a big deal, like I wasn't a big deal. At sixteen and my ‘world revolves
I was crushed.
locked myself in my mama's rose house and curled on the bench next to a red rose
obviously looked for me. Mama found me pulling the pebbles off a red
tracked me using the watch
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