Cruel Offer (AGENCY #2) by Stella Gray EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Stella Gray
- Language: English
- Genre: contemporary romance
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PIPER-LILY
August
My ballet shoes are the last thing I have to pack. They’re worn out and
well-loved, the soft leather more gray than pink now. But I’d never consider
leaving them behind. I’m too sentimental.
The court-appointed movers have already removed everything of real
value. The house is empty and the sound of my breathing echoes off the
Lincrusta-papered walls in what used to be my bedroom suite. It’s not my
sanctuary anymore, though. It’s just a hollow, echoing room.
The gaping hole that’s grown increasingly wider inside me since finding
out what my father did floods with a heavy ache. I spent most of my life in
this house, in this room, and the unknown stretching out before me is more
frightening than I want to admit. The moving company packed our sixthousand-square-foot penthouse in two days and whisked our things out of
here with the swift efficiency and indifference of people used to avoiding
wealthy people’s meltdowns when all of their precious things are torn away
from them. I’ve never felt so lost.
My whole world has been pulled out from under me.
My father certainly didn’t make it easy on the movers as they worked.
He rode their heels, yelling and cursing and trying to rip things from their
hands. The police had to come, again, and force him to vacate the premises.
Meanwhile, my mother stood by silently, watching with a coolness on her
face that gave away nothing of her feelings. If she feels hatred for my father
and what he’s done, how he’s betrayed us, it didn’t show. She’s an expert at
hiding everything behind a perfect smile.
As for me, I never fully learned how to act calm and collected like her
in stressful situations. Whenever something rocked our little bubble, I’d
study her to see how I should react, to learn what was an appropriate
response. But even if I managed a stiff upper lip, I couldn’t make it stick.
My emotions always got the best of me and the tears would fall. I never
understood how she could stand there and simply smile prettily during the
worst of times, carrying on as if nothing had happened.
Even now, at nineteen, I’m still not sure how to feel about things, how
to respond to them. So I don’t for the most part. I hug myself and keep my
thoughts private and my words few. Pretty, but never heard. Just the way
my father prefers me to be, anyway.
My insides burn with anger as his voice filters from somewhere in the
house. It’s hard to tell where he is as his angry tone bounces off the naked
walls and rooms with nothing to block the vibration. He’s yelling something
about his golf clubs, as if he’s reliving the horror of them being hauled
away all over again.
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