Uncovering You: The Contract by Scarlett Edwards Page A

answers. “Two people. Less than the fingers I have on one hand.” He holds his left hand in front of his face and rotates it back and forth.
    Without warning he slams it down on the table. I jump, and he surges up.
    “It seems I was mistaken about you,” he says, and starts to walk away.
    Desperate, I reach out and grab his sleeve. “Wait,” I say. “Please.”
    Stonehart looks down at me. He sneers. Then, he rips his arm back and walks away.
    I slump down in my seat. That was such bullshit ! He didn’t even give me a chance to explain! What type of psychotic man waits twenty—no, “ eighteen ”—minutes only to leave the second his guest arrives?
    “Miss?” A waiter interrupts my thoughts. “The gentleman ordered wine?”
    I am poured two glasses before I can say a word. One is set on Stonehart’s side of the table, the other, in front of me.
    I sigh and pick up my glass. The aroma of the wine is soothing. I sip at the rim.
    I guess I am not cut out for this world, after all.
     
     

Chapter Twenty-Three
    (Present day)
     
    Stonehart.
    The bastard. It’s been him this whole time!
    Who else would have the power, the influence, to organize all this? I curse myself for not thinking of him before. I’ve been starving because of him. I’ve been dying because of him.
    My war has been all for naught. If I truly want to hurt Stonehart, holding out like this won’t help. He may not know it, but he gave me the most valuable piece of information the morning we met in his building.
    He is taking his company public.
    He has left his king vulnerable.
    Let him think me broken. Let him think me weak. I will play his sick game. I will sign the damned contract.
    Because I know, when the time comes, I will strike.
    And I will destroy his empire.
     

Epilogue
    (One day later)
     
    An elderly woman comes in to bathe and clothe me. I do not know what she must think when she sees me, for she says nothing at all.
    Once I am cleaned, fed, and dressed, I ask her casually, “When will Mr. Stonehart be presenting himself?”
    The woman’s manner falters. She drops the rags she is holding and looks at me, really at me , as if seeing the person I am instead of the broken shell of a human she found last night. Something akin to pity shows in her eyes.
    The break in composure lasts only a second. She picks up my soiled clothes and addresses me formally. “Mr. Stonehart will be informed of your request.”
    As she bustles out, I try to temper the growing smile on my lips.
    I am not supposed to know it’s him yet.
    Score one for Lilly Ryder.

The End.
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