UNDONE (VELVET ROPE #1) BY M.K. CONDRY – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: M.K. Condry
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Frankie
“Do you think there’s something wrong with me?”
I brace for my cousin Charlotte’s unfiltered response, trusting that out of
our friends, she’ll tell me how it is. Lily’s too kind, and Ember’s still too
intimidated by my unorthodox sex life to offer up an opinion. The people
who aren’t privy—Uncle Frank and Aunt Hazel and their friends—have
been treating me with kid gloves since the attack, like I’m a fragile flower
or some shit. It’s exhausting. What I am is desperate.
For the past few days, I’ve been climbing the walls. I need to punch,
scratch, and scream my way back to the pre-attack me.
It’s been weeks since I’ve had sex. Obviously, at first, I needed to
recover. Even now, there’s still some lingering soreness. Physically, nothing
is stopping me from getting back out there. Mentally, I’m struggling.
Normally, compartmentalizing is my jam. I made a damn career out of it,
after all. But separating the violence I didn’t ask for and the violence I do is
proving difficult.
Charlotte rolls her midnight eyes—something we both inherited from
the Wright side of the family—before returning to her task. “You know I
don’t.”
A fly on the wall grabs my attention. I use the excuse to look away, so
she doesn’t see the tears I’m fighting.
For the past hour, we’ve been practically nose-to-nose while she applies
my Halloween make-up, her wintergreen breath doing more to open my
sinuses than a drug store decongestant ever could.
The fly takes off, buzzing a few circles around the room before escaping
out the open bedroom door, presumably for better entertainment.
Charlotte dabs a damp applicator under my eye, singing along with I
Put a Spell on You. Annie Lennox she is not. I reach beside my hip where
my phone sits on the chair, increasing the volume, hoping to drown her out.
She shakes her head, scanning my costume. “Maleficent my ass. You’re
more like all the dwarfs rolled into one package.” She starts ticking them
off one by one. “Grumpy, Cranky, Whiny, Bitchy—”
I stop her mid-list. “Only one of those is an actual character.” She’s
right though, I am all those things and more and I hate it.
I thought this weak-ass version of myself had been left in the dust,
buried alongside my mom when she died. But ever since my attack, the
pesky bitch has resurfaced. It feels like I haven’t slept more than a wink in
the past three weeks. If I do manage to sleep, the nightmares are there
waiting. Some old. Some new.
Curses hurled at me in Spanish. Cruel hands bruising my flesh. And
then there’s Mom, cold in her bed as if it happened yesterday—not eighteen
years ago.
It’s all a jumbled mess I try to claw my way out of. No wonder my mind
chooses not sleeping as the better option. As a result, I’m on edge twentyfour seven. Going crazy. Something simmers beneath my skin like an itch
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