Monster 8

Angela

Pushing my way into the bar, I straightened my shoulders. I was bone-weary after driving all night and most of the day, and I needed a strong drink. Letting my eyes travel around the room, I frowned for a second before letting the lines of my face smooth out, replacing my scowl with a smile. The place was everything I had been expecting: a dive bar. The kind of place where I usually wouldn’t be seen dead.

But then I wanted to be seen. I wanted every person in that stupid backwater town to see my face and recognise me. The quicker they did, the quicker it would get back to Monster. If I was in luck he might even be in the bar itself.

Monster owed me. And I had the perfect way he could repay me for the damage he had done. My dad wanted me to be married, and legally I had to be in order to get my hands on my trust fund. But nowhere had it mentioned who I had to get married to.

He had started this mess so he owed me. He could get me out of it.

The bar fell silent as I sauntered m