Right Now (The Seduced Series) Read Free Page A

when was the last time you slept with a guy?”
    “Hey, what the hell does that got to do with anything?” I say trying to keep the annoyance out of my voice.
    “Everything!” She sighed. “Look Ang, you’re twenty-seven and hot as fuck, it’s a damn crime that you’re still single. You need to get out and start having fun,” Betty is hardly the serious one, so when she is it shocks the shit out of me.
    I knew h er heart was in the right place but I couldn’t find it in myself to enter the dating scene again. I thought back to Staunton, Virginia and after Rick. I was heartbroken, it took some time to get over him; he was my first true love. I tried the dating thing after a few years but the sleaze ball guy that I was with cheated on me. I caught him in my bed nonetheless with a whore of a friend. I couldn’t even gather enough strength to scream at him for betraying me. I just wanted him and that whore out of my house.
    All I could manage to say to him without going ape shit crazy on the both of them was, ‘it’s over and get your shit out of my house,’ he looked more shocked than I was at the time. I looked at my so called friend who turns out to be one of the biggest whores in town, and whatever she saw in my eyes made her whole body flinch from terror. As I made my way back downstairs, I found my sister Jenifer on the couch drinking a glass of water; she dropped the glass onto the floor when she saw me coming down the stairs. As the glass fell I watch the glass hit the floor in slow motion, when the cup finally hit the floor I watched the glass shatter into a thousand pieces. Then I came to realize that’s how my heartfelt, shattered like broken glass. First it was Rick and now this prick Taylor.
    “Angelina!” She screamed as she rushed to my side pulling me down to the couch.
    “What’s wrong? Did Taylor hurt you?” Her voice sounded frantic with worry.
    “Taylor… I-I caught him… in bed with that whore…Ryder,” was all I was able to choke out behind the sobs.
    Every emotion appeared on Jenifer ’s face all at once; anger, betrayal, pain and sorrow. I don’t know how long we sat there holding each other. Now that I really think about it, I never really loved Taylor as much as I loved Rick, that’s why the pain wasn’t really there as it was for Rick when I lost him. I was also grieving the loss of my best friend Diana at the time; in less than two years I had lost the love of my life and a really good friend. So moving to New York was a must for me to do; I was tired of putting my mother and sister through hell and worry. I needed an escape and starting over in a new place, where no one knew me was just what I needed. The whole charade thing with Rick, Diana, Taylor and Ryder was really the last straw that broke the camel’s back and what also gave me strength to take my plans in moving out of that town and to start over, like a new beginning for me. As soon as I finished up college, I packed my bags and left Staunton forever without looking back at the past and trying to focus on my new future.
    “Earth to Angelina,” I blinked up to see Betty snapping her fingers in my face trying to get my attention.
    “Sorry Betty,” I mumbled as she slumped back to her seat looking confused.
    “Okay Ang you win, I won’t force anything onto you if you’re not comfortable with it.” I smiled apologetically at her.
    “Thanks for understanding,” I said as I got an idea. “But that doesn’t mean we still can’t have a girl’s night out.”
    “Really?” Betty asked as I nodded and she let out a faint scream. “Thank you, thank you, thank you,” she said hugging me. “I promise we’re going to have a great time out.”
    “No boys, right?” I asked.
    “For me or for you?” She said as she eyed me carefully.
    “Jeez, you’re so obtuse sometimes. For me of course.”
    “Deal!” She exclaimed. I laughed, Betty was always a sucker for going out and having a good time.
    “Let’s