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knew your parents…very well,” Arianna responds, tartly.  “So well, in
fact I was there the day they perished,” she chuckles.  She fucking chuckles. 
“Bet you didn’t know that, did you, my sweet naïve, Elyssa.”
    I have no
words.  That can’t be right, why wouldn’t I have known this?  I need out of
this car, I need to talk to my sister.  If anyone knows what happened, it would
be her.
    “You’re just as
naïve when it comes to Alex as you are with your parents.  You know the man he
is now.  You have no idea the kind of man, no not man, boy he used to be. The
defiled things he’d do for a measly dollar.  He was good for one thing and one
thing only.”  Her face lights up with a devious smirk as she bites her bottom
lip. Her recollection of Alex causes a gag like reflex and I’m fighting the urge
to purge my breakfast all over her.  Fuck, I need out of this car. 
    “I gave him the
confidence, I gave him the education, and I gave him the clothes, the car, and
the persona.  So when you look at him and fall head over heels in love like a
little school girl…recognize that you’re falling in love with the semblance of
a man I created.  And because I’ve given him all of that,” she snaps her
fingers, “I can take it all away.  It’s really just that easy.”
    Enough!  She can
carry on and on about how she did everything for Alex, but let’s not kid
ourselves.  She did it for herself.  She’s just that selfish.  “I don’t know
what you want.  I’ve done everything you’ve asked; I broke up with him.  I did
everything against my better judgment.  So cut the crap, why are we here right
now?” 
    “We’re here
because regardless of everything you’ve done, you’ve made it clear that you’re
not able to separate yourself.  I know your game Elyssa, whether you think I do
or not.  As soon as you thought the coast was clear, big bad aero phobic Elyssa
caught the first flight out.  Then the moment he comes back, you sneak off to
the hospital to what….console him in his time of need.  Pfft.”
    “Have you
watched the news?  There was a hurricane that hit New York, Arianna!  You know,
the same New York where one of your top employees was located.  One would think
as an illustrious leader , you’d want to know if he was okay.” 
Her brow shoots up as my words reverberate against the windows.  I cool my
temper and try to rein in the urge to reach over and choke her with her own
belt. 
    “Just because we
aren’t together, doesn’t mean that I don’t care about him.  I just…there was no
way…I just needed to know he was okay,” I struggle.  This isn’t something I
should have to explain to her.  She doesn’t deserve the right to know why I
went to New York.  Nor does she need to know why I was at the hospital.  But,
because I want the hell out of this car, I continue to placate her.  “And as
far as last night, I didn’t even know he was back.  Did you?”  She contemplates
my explanation.  I sit, trying to pacify my frayed nerves by calmly twirling my
ring around my finger trying to settle myself.  “Besides, as soon as I got
confirmation he was okay, I came home.  And if you saw us last night, you’d
know it wasn’t a lover’s reunion.” 
     “I didn’t want
to do this, but you’re forcing my hand.  It’s clear you love him more than I
initially thought.”  She searches her purse and pulls out her phone; her finger
brush over her screen until she finds what she was looking for.  “You see,
there is this little video I have of Alex.  Let’s just say he’s being
very…naughty,” she giggles.  “See here?  If you look close enough you can
actually see the moment he penetrates her.”  Did she just say penetrate? 
Don’t look at the screen, Ely…don’t look at the screen.
    I can’t help it,
my eyes fall from her face to the phone turned in my direction.  The video
makes my stomach curl.  I can see a clear picture of