"FUCK.OFF.Please.Just fuck off.You don't even have to stay fucked off.Just fuck off for right now and then you can get back on your bullshit at a later date when I'm more emotionally equipped to handle it."
I hear muffled laughter coming from behind Adam.I can't believe my eyes.It's none other than my arch nemesis, Ada Davenport.He brought her with him.She steps out from behind the man I thought I was falling in love with.The man I gave my virginity to only last night.The man who lied to my face when he said that the woman standing in front of me was not his girlfriend.I'm sure there's some clever wording at play there on his part but I was destroyed when she walked into that room and saw us both lying in bed together, naked.I shake my head to clear the memory from my mind.
"Ah hell, it wasn't enough that you're already the main character in my supervillain origin story.You just had to come here with your boyfriend and twist the knife."
Ada at least has the decency to look sheepish.
"Let's go, Eve.We're leaving NOW."His tone is commanding and it's about to catch him a left hook.
I laugh and it's clear that he doesn't find this funny because his eyes narrow to slits, and his jaw clenches so hard that I swear I can hear his teeth grinding.
"Look, I think it's cute and all that you two are here together recruiting for your harem but, I'm going to have to pass."
Ada suddenly looks confused.
"Wait, what does that mean?I don't help him get women."Ada sounds more perplexed with each word she says.
"Eve, if you're not over here in the next 45 seconds, I'm going to carry your ass out of here and it won't be pleasant when we get home."
"You're really working your ass off at perpetuating that possessive asshole stereotype."
"This is your last warning, Eve."
"No, seriously.If there's an asshole ranking system, you're an admiral.No question about it."
"I warned you."
He starts for me, so I turn and run, getting a total of six strides before he claims me in a brutal grip around the waist, tossing me over his shoulder like a rag doll.
"Are you serious, asshole!?I did you a FAVOR!I left without giving you the slightest bit of grief.I didn't even defend myself against your girlfriend's bullshit tirade."
Ada pipes up again."Can you please stop saying stuff like that?One more reference to my brother as my boyfriend or me being a part of his harem and my breakfast is going to make a reappearance."
My head swivels in Ada's direction.My brain is suddenly foggy and confused.We're halfway to the exit doors now and Adam has a bruising grip on my legs and ass.There's no way I'm escaping this hold and I'm not quite bold enough to start punching his backside.
"Who's your brother?"Incredulity dripping from every word.
"Adam is my brother."Her head cocks to the side and she gives me a strange look."Honestly, I don't know how you don't know that."
I roll my eyes and glare at her.
"Okay, I can play games too.I'll take things that are total bullshit for 300, Alex."
Ada laughs again for the second time since arriving here."Man, I really am the asshole.You're funny as hell and I had no idea.I'm really sorry, Eve.I hope you can forgive me."
Tears well up in my eyes instantly at the words that I had no idea I had been waiting to hear.I turn away from her, quickly hiding my face."I don't believe anything you say.Either one of you.I don't know what the point is to all of this but if you were brother and sister, he would've just told me."
"I didn't tell you because you were already suspicious that she had set the whole thing up and wanted me to get you to like me.If I'd told you then that she was my sister, you never would've gone to lunch with me.I don't regret keeping the truth from you and I'm not sorry."
"You are such an asshole!And you pulled this sister thing straight out of your ass.This is ass talk if I've ever heard it."
Ada bursts out laughing again.
"Please, Eve.Whether you take my brother back or not please forgive me.I was wrong all the way around and I am so sorry that I didn't work harder or really make any effort at all to get to know you.If you're this funny in a state of inexplicable rage, I can't wait to see how funny you are when your emotions are in check."
I stare back at her, at a rare loss for words.Is she really his sister?
"But you're a Davenport," I say to her as her words start to penetrate the wall that I've constructed against these two.
