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could charm the birds from the trees and if they didn t come when
you called them, you cut down the tree and stomped the eggs.
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Derekica Snake
When you told people to jump, they jumped. They didn t ask
how high, they jumped. That is the legacy you left for Erik. His
living up to your reputation has messed up what was off kilter to
begin with. Olga slipped off the bed and stood up.
One would never mistake her for a man. She had the curves
that were so out of fashion since the Twiggy dates days of
boyishness.
How the hell could I know trite junk like that but every time I
tried to pull something from the void, I got nothing but a migraine?
Olga reached out and brushed my red hair off my forehead,
Somewhere in that mess of a mind, I think you still really care for
Erik. You don t remember me. You don t remember your own
name but you remember his. You don t know how much that pisses
me off. How far back can you really remember?
The orphanage.
So, this is just the Erik phase that has gone AWOL on you. I
find that interesting, from a professional point of view. There was
too much of a hint of venom in the Russian s voice to take what
she said at face value. This was not professional detachment. I
frowned. Didn t she say we were a couple once upon a time? This
was personal. There was too much bitterness directed at me for this
to be an even bigger deception than the one I was foundering with
right now. I was with her then met Erik and left with him? No
woman likes to lose to another woman. With what I knew of Olga
Kenovich I sincerely doubted that she would take losing her man to
another man with grace.
After you came out of the coma, you were little more than a
babe in an incubator. The secure Rehab clinic we had you
transferred to had to teach you how to walk. Your speech was slow
but that came back quickly. Your reading ability wasn t affected,
neither was your writing except for the tremors in your hands but
that was gone in less than six weeks. You should have been dead,
Trevor or at the best, a vegetable but you didn t die and you didn t
stay a vegetable. You were incredibility lucky. Then again, you ve
always seemed to have a charmed life.
When the hell was I lucky? I was an orphan. I had my skull
crushed. I was five years older than I thought I was. I taught that
blonde haired, blue-green freak to rape me? Again, this is all based
on Olga s story and I wasn t too sure how much I could trust her.
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My Hostage My Love
I d been between her legs. God, Erik had been between mine. The
thought of both happenings made my head hurt.
Erik brought in the best therapists and psychoanalysts that
money could buy and they all recommended that we not tell you a
damn thing about yourself. You were to bloom in your own time
and it would be in the best interest to allow your psyche to find
your own way. Again just from her tone, I could tell what she
thought of the specialists, which apparently wasn t much.
You got well enough in two months that you took a runner
on us, Trev.
My name is Trevor. I hated the shortened form.
I know, love. I m still a little pissed off at you. I m working on
it. She reached out and brushed my hair back from my face again.
This is why I kept it short. The slight curl just begged for someone
to run their hands through it. Hers was a touch of familiarity but
nothing more than that. The fond memories of the wanton goddess
of the black sands were tainted and had turned to ash in my mouth.
She was nothing more than my Ex if she wasn t lying again.
You were laying there at death s door. Erik literally dragged
you back from the abyss. Two months later, you get out of bed and
walk out into the night. By the time we found you, I couldn t
believe what you had built for your identity.
Trev, you stole Erik s life once, and then you went and did it
again. You appropriated what he was before you got a hold of him.
College student. Bank Teller. Frustrated Writer. I personally think it
was an attempt at atonement for what you did to him.
What I did to him? What I DID!
You don t have the right to get upset, Trev.
Aside from you suddenly showing up in Tahiti I have never
seen you before in my life. How the hell do I know if you are telling
the truth or lying through your lovely capped teeth?
Ignorance is bliss, eh? We tried that little scenario and you
ran off. I m sure you don t want to hear this but you re a sexual
predator, Trevor. You set your sights on Erik and you ran him to
ground. You gave him no options. What he s doing now, is what
you did to him. You took a naive young man, marooned him here
and basically tortured him into your vision of what he is now.
If I had known what you were doing I would have tried to
rescue him. I know you think I m nothing more than a bitch but I
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