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after the rain by renee carlino

The Scars She Hid From The World

The Scars She Hid From The World

REGINA MCBRIDE
The heavy iron gates of the Wilderness Correction Camp groaned as they released me after three years of state-sponsored hell. I stood on the dirt road, clutching a plastic bag that held my entire life, waiting for the family that claimed they sent me there for "rehab." My brother, Brady, picked me up in a luxury SUV only to throw me out onto a deserted highway in the middle of a brewing storm. He told me I was a "public relations nightmare" and that the rain might finally wash the "stink" of the camp off me. He drove away, leaving me to limp miles through the mud on a snapped ankle. When I finally dragged myself to our family estate, my mother didn't offer a hug; she gasped in horror because my muddy clothes were ruining her Italian marble. They didn't give me my old room back. Instead, they banished me to a moldy gardener’s shack and hired a "babysitter" to make sure I didn't embarrass them further. My sister, Kaleigh, stood there in white cashmere, pretending to cry while clinging to her fiancé, Ambrose—the man who had once been mine. They all treated me like a volatile junkie, refusing to acknowledge that Kaleigh was the one who planted the drugs in my bag three years ago. They wanted to believe I was broken so they wouldn't have to feel guilty about the "wellness retreat" that was actually a torture chamber. I sat in the dark of that shed, feeling the cooling gel on the cigarette burns that covered my arms, and realized they had made a fatal mistake. They thought they had erased me, but I had returned with a roadmap of scars and a hidden satellite phone. At dinner, I didn't beg for their love. I simply rolled up my sleeves and showed them the price of their silence. As the wine spilled and the lies crumbled, I sent a single text to the only person I trusted: "I'm in. Let them simmer." The hunt was finally on.
Modern RevengeScheming
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Chapter 1

Dduk..dduk...dduk * knocks on the door*

" Who is the shit knocking the door like hell? Piss off," he shouts in an arrogant way because sleep wasn't letting him get away from it. It had hugged him like it was the closest thing to him and today, suddenly after such a long time, he had dreamt about her.

It has been so many years that he hadn't seen her and he had made clear to the world that he had moved on in his life a long time ago but still today, whenever he dreams about her it gives him such an amazing feeling that he doesn’t want to wake up from his dreams.

Shit!!!

These annoying knocks had already made him wake up from the bed. He quickly goes to the washroom, washes his face, and then, wears his sweatpants and walks down to the dining hall.

" Was it you who knocked my door?" He scolds butler Jackson.

" Yes, young master. It was already the time for your work out and I knocked to drop by some of your stuff. It was already too late for your work out and you never slept so long, so I thought you must be awake," he says in a soft tone, a pinch of fear clearly exhibits in his voice.

Hand brushing his fluffy hair with his fingers, he twists another wrist and looks at his watch as his beautiful waves of his hair fall in front of his forehead.

"Shit!" he swears.

It was true. It was his mistake.

" Where's my bag pack? Hand it over to me," he says.

His butler hands him his bag pack. He takes it away and swings the keys of his Lamborghini, gets inside his car, throws the bag pack to the passenger seat, and starts its engine to the gym.

It's already been more than 7 years that he hadn't seen her and after seven years, he wondered why she suddenly knocked at the doors of his mind. And her knocks were already disturbing his perfect schedule.

He stops his car in front of the gym and then, he grabs his bag pack and walks in for his work out.

To be honest, working out is the loveliest moment in his whole day. He gets to meet all his college mates there. They work out and hang out together and talk lots of stuff, especially girls and their curves and their seductiveness, and yeah, how they can get them to bed.

His dramatic silly and perverted friends had even finished dating all the girls visiting and training in the gym.

" Look, look, look...look at that .... Oh! my goodness!!! Look at her boobs and her hips. She must have really worked out hard on the gym. Just look at her abs and the muscle in her arms and all her sweat makes her look extra..., sexy," his silly friend Harry spouted.

" And, maybe on the bed too," he rounds up and balls the towel and then throws it at Harry.

" Seems like you are more of an expert Asher" Harry says when he was on his way to shower and Asher just waves his hands back to him, taking off his upper clothes, he walks to take the shower.

Turning on the tap, he lets every drop of water touch his masculine body, he lets it wet him in his every core of body. Collecting his hair that reaches his forehead, proudly backward he places both of his hands on the wall and drifts himself on some old memories till he senses some stimuli in his body.

A tender, beautiful and soft hands painted on red colored enamel, runs on his tightly packed abs making their tickling way towards his chest, hugging him tightly from behind.

" This is a male section, Jessy. How dare you come here?" He speaks without even seeing her face.

"I can come wherever you go and wherever you are Ash," she says as she kisses his back but gently throws her hands away and turns towards her, and then, his eyes show as if he is in lust.

She winks her eyes and smiles with the expectations from him, as she bits and licks her own bottom lips.

"You want me, huh...," he says twitching his lips on one side.

She nods her head unaware of what was coming to her. He stretches his hands to reach her wet hairs which were drenched being together with him on shower. He gently strokes her hair and reaches out his fingers on her white, wet neck and approaches as if he was going to kiss her roughly and roughly, today.

Bringing his face just an inch apart from hers, on which she closes her eyes, submitting herself to him, he smiles coyly and pulls her hair from behind and says," Get out of your wild and unrequited dreams Jessy. It's never going to be true."

Grabbing the towel, he unfolds it and wraps himself with it around him and walks to the changing room. He dresses himself back and then, check out the locker and hangs the locket with the book as the pendant on his neck.

" Ohh..., So that's it. You have to explain to me Ash. Is it because that you work on publication house that the pendant is book or is it because you still remember her that you are still having this shitty book as your pendant?" she roars.

Hearing the words 'she' and 'her' coming out from her lips, literally made him a bit mad and he shuts his locker with a loud sound.

He tries to walk away without answering her questions, leaving her just like that but she holds him from behind and pleads," It's been so many years already Ash. She is never coming back to you. Just give up on her. Don't you see me standing here, everyday yearning for you, yearning for your love."

Loosening her grip on him, he says," You're wrong Jessy. I had never waited for her and I would never wait for her and for your feelings, I had made it clear that we are just in the relationships with benefits. You get the money that you need, and I get the fake relationship due to which I am not forced to get married by my family." He lies.

He walks away from her leaving her desires aroused yet, not satisfied. She kicks the door as hard as she could.

" Bitch! even after these all years she is still able to roam and control his mind even without her presence and me being with him, I still couldn't catch his attention," she growls in anger.

Grabbing his stuff and walking towards his friends to bid farewell.

" Hey! Jess was just searching for you," Marco informs him. He ignores his statement and tightens his Nike's lace.

"Oh...," their reactions change when they view Jessy coming out of the male changing room and wet.

"You are really something. You started since the early morning. You practically had double workout, Ash," his friends teases him.

He knits his brows in a single line as he stares into Marco's eyes in an intimidating way. Marco places his palms over his mouth and gestures he won't add other words in them.

Giving him a death glare, he walks out of there and picks up the towel and walking up to Jessy throws the towel to her," Dry yourself."

He walks towards his car to the parking lot.

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