Page 59 of Charming Violet

“No, Mum, James sticking his dick in someone else is the reason we broke up.”

“Landon came and got your things, and I said James was going to propose, and he said he knew and that’s why he came home.”

I freeze. “What?”

“James was going to propose. Xavier told Landon, and that’s why he came home.”

The orgasm leaves as quickly as it was built. Mum is still going on, but I can’t hear her over the ringing in my ears. Axel and Maverick have stepped back and are looking at me with questions in their gaze.

The closing front door snaps me back into the present and in walks Landon. My stepbrother, my boyfriend, and the reason my relationship crumbled. My boring, dull relationship. But still my relationship. My first relationship.

“What’s going on in here?” he looks cocky as ever.

I hang up on my Mum. She calls back but I ignore it. Landon stops in his tracks.

“Letty?”

“You son of a fucking bitch!” I throw the closest thing. A bag of flour. Landon moves, but he isn’t quick enough.

“I guess your mum called?”

“You’d guess correctly.” I throw something else. Milk.

“Let me explain!”

“Let you explain? Let you explain?” I throw something else. Coco powder.

“You’re mine Letty. Ours.”

I turn on Maverick and Axel now. “Which means you two were a part of it.” Throwing the metal bowls at them.

“Ow, I’m going to bruise.” I think Maverick is trying to break the tension like normal. But it won't work this time.

“You orchestrated his cheating. All of you.” I let the tears fall freely. “You could have told me the truth. You’ve had enoughtime. But instead, you let the person who tore me down the most tell me.”

I can't look at them anymore.

Axel

Maverick is the one to break the silence “I guess the cat is out of the bag.”

“Would seem so” is all Landon says in return.

Would seem so.What sort of response is that? But I remain silent.

“You’re awfully quiet.”

I shrug “What do you want me to say?”

“Yeah, I’m not sure.” He places the broom against the wall. The kitchen is looking a little better. But God, she got it everywhere.

We hear the shower turn off and then a door slam. Yeah, she’s pissed.

“Go clean yourself up,” I say to Landon as I walk past him.

“And where are you going?”

“To check on Violet.”