greedy.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cShe really thinks she\u2019s above everyone now, huh?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
I never asked for anything more than honesty, and respect. wanted to be chosen without having to fight for it every single day.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Matthew reached out, stepping closer. \u201cViolet, just take the flowers for now. I promise I\u2019ll get you a bigger one next time, okay?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
I clenched my jaw. Even now, he was still trying to control the narrative. Still deciding what I deserved. But before I could answer, a voice cut through the crowd.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cExcuse me,\u201d a man in a tailored black suit said, stepping between the people. His eyes scanned the crowd. \u201cI\u2019m looking for Miss Violet.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Everyone turned to look at me.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I blinked. \u201cT\u2013that\u2019s me.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
He gave a slight bow of his head. \u201cGood afternoon, ma\u2019am\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ma\u2019am?\u00a0<\/p>\n
1 plan to spot what\u2019s mine\u00a0<\/p>\n
+25 Bonus\u00a0<\/p>\n
Matthew stepped closer. \u201cWho is this, Violet?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
I was about to say I don\u2019t know when Nora gasped.\u00a0<\/p>\n
0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cNo way,\u201d she said suddenly, her hand going to her mouth. Is this the guy you spent the night with last night?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Matthew stiffened beside her. \u201cWhat?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYesterday,\u201d Nora said. \u201cBefore she left, Violet told me she actually spent the night with that stranger from the party.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Matthew\u2019s voice dropped cold. \u201cThat\u2019s not a joke?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
He turned fully to me, jaw clenched. \u201cYou spent the night with that bastard last night?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
I stepped back, stunned at his tone. Then, he glared at the man in the suit. \u201cAre you the bastard that touched my woman?!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
I raised an eyebrow. My woman? Okay, first of all, this wasn\u2019t Hades.\u00a0<\/p>\n
If this man were Hades, half the women in the room would we already fainted. And second, was Matthew deaf or just delusional? Why was he still acting possessive when I had made it very clear it was over?\u00a0<\/p>\n
The suited man shook his head. \u201cYou\u2019re mistaken, sir. I wouldn\u2019t dare. I\u2019m merely the messenger.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cA messenger?\u201d I asked, confused now. \u201cFor who?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
He turned and extended his arm politely. \u201cThis way, ma\u2019am\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
I stared at him, then at Matthew. Everyone was waiting to see what I\u2019d do.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This was the best opportunity I was going to get to leave this ridiculous, suffocating scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I stepped forward, letting the man guide me through the crowd. I half\u2013expected Matthew to stop me again, but he just followed me.\u00a0<\/p>\n
When we got outside, I stopped cold. My breath caught in my throat. All around the school gates, lined up in perfect symmetry, were cargo vans. At least twenty of them Identical black vehicles, their sides open.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Inside were roses. Hundreds, no, thousands of them. Red, violet, even a few rare deep blue ones. They were\u00a0<\/p>\n
stuffed to the brim.\u00a0<\/p>\n
My eyes widened, unable to process what I was seeing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It didn\u2019t even feel real.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cW\u2013what is this?\u201d I whispered, barely hearing my own voice.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The man beside me smiled. Without a word, he reached into his pocket and pulled out something sleek and black. He extended it toward me with both hands like it was something sacred.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is for you, ma\u2019am,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I blinked at him, confused, and slowly took the card from his gloved hands.\u00a0<\/p>\n
My fingers trembled as I turned it over and opened it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
[I had fun with you, princess. Here\u2019s a little gift, just a taste of how I plan to spoil what\u2019s mine. I can\u2019t stop thinking about the way you felt wrapped around me, the way you moaned my name. I\u2019m hard just remembering it. Rest while you can, because next time, I\u2019m not letting you go. I\u2019ll have you pinned beneath me, trembling, begging for more. You\u2019ll be ruined for anyone else. And you love every second of it.\u2013H]\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nights Burn With Regret \u2014 by Nathan Perez 33 greedy.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cShe really thinks she\u2019s above everyone now, huh?\u201d\u00a0 I never […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-craving-the-guardian-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}