Wanting Winter(49)

I bet all this birthdays and Christmases have come at once.

I look away sitting on the couch, my face in my hands.

We aren’t together, and I have been fucking someone else this whole time, but deep down I was hoping Winter wouldn’t sleep with anyone else. Knowing that she hadn’t slept with anyone since her ex until me, I was hoping it would be the same, but obviously not.

Fuck.





Joshua


I am near the doorway watching Winter chase after Drake. The look on her face like she could lose him is the most unbearable thing in the world. I continue watching them, seeing that panic look on her face until she kisses him.

We just fucked each other, and she ends up kissing someone else.

I know she said she didn’t want to be exclusive, but like hell would I have kissed someone just after fucking her. I know that if I did, she would slap me and call me a bastard.

She gets in the car with him and drives off. She doesn’t even tell me she is going.

I head back inside to the kitchen, grabbing the bottle of vodka, and drinking from the bottle, letting the burn run down my throat.

“Woah man, want to take it easy?” Chris, my teammate says.

“Fuck that.” I drink some more.

“I saw you go upstairs with the Ice Queen. Was it everything you thought it would be?” He claps me on the shoulder.

“Don’t call her that,” I warn him, and he puts his hands up.

“You really do like her, don’t you? I thought she was just some conquest.”

Yeah so did I. “Things change.”

“Does she know about the plan you and Candice made up?”

I look around, making sure no else has heard. I only told him, and I know if it got out, it would either be him or Candice that told. “Be careful where you say that shit.”

Candice had this plan and I can’t believe it actually worked. When she told me that she could help me get Winter, I agreed. I knew that she was blackmailing Trent. I knew that they’d fucked. Candice said what had happened at the club and I knew that I had to help her put the final nail in the coffin. I knew Trent wouldn’t be able to resist the good sex as well as a girl who makes herself vulnerable.

I’d told her to head to his place.

She messaged me when she was meeting Trent at the park, so I was ready to film the whole thing. I didn’t think he would have chosen Candice over Winter, but it made things so much easier.

Candice told me what Winter liked about Trent, how she liked how he treated her and made her feel safe. Basically I just needed to be a nice guy, but ensure I flirty so I wouldn’t be put in the friend zone.

It worked.

I finally fucked her, and it was so much more than what I’d expected—it was fucking mind-blowing.

I want her now more than ever before. I just wasn’t expecting her to also fall for Drake.

“Hey man, can you give me a lift,” I ask Chris.

“Sure. You’re lucky I haven’t drunk anything tonight.”

We walk to his car and I tell him where to go and when we get closer to Winter’s building, I tell him to stop. I see her and Drake talking just a few feet away and I grit my teeth when I see her kissing him—see her throw herself at him.

I pray for him to turn her down but what man could say no to her?

He fucks her on his car—fucks her where anyone could see.

“Fuck man.” I hear Chris say but my eyes are still glued to what’s happening in front of me.





Winter


Now





“Trent, what are you doing here?” I wipe away my remaining tears.

His eyes are trained on me with a concerned look. “Are you okay?”

I wave him off. “I’m fine,” I lie. I walk in the living room, sitting down on my couch with him still standing in the doorway. I’m not in the mood to fight. “Has Drake sent you down here?” I ask, hopefully.

He shakes his head, closing the door behind him and sitting next to me. “No, he didn’t. He told me you two slept together.”

I look at him surprised. He told Trent we slept together? “Why did he tell you?”

“He doesn’t want shit to be between us. I also told him I left Candice.”

I look at him and he is watching me intently.

“I hope you didn’t leave her for me,” I say with a stern voice.

He shakes his head. “It wasn’t working. She isn’t the girl I thought she was,” he sighs.

“Sorry to hear that.” I’m not, but don’t know what else to say.

“I know you’re not, but thank you for not saying I told you so. I can’t believe how much I messed up.” He rubs the back of his neck.

“You messed up really bad,” I tell him.

“I know you’re moving on, I see it in your eyes. You are looking at me with indifference. There’s no hate, anger, or even sadness.”

“I had to move on. Joshua and Drake are a big reason why I have managed to. They have been amazing.” I bite my lip. He knows I slept with his best friend, but he doesn’t know I also slept with Joshua.

“I get that. I don’t want to hurt you, but I need to say this.” He moves his body closer to me. “I want you back. I know you don’t trust me; I know I will have to earn that. I am even happy to be just your friend, but I need you in my life Winter. I miss you so much. This past week has been hell.”