They say ‘good things come to those who wait.’ Personally, Lucian Scott thought that was a crock of shit. It seemed like he had been waiting a lifetime for his luck to turn around. Granted, some of his misfortune was his own fault.
He had an appetite for the finer things in life but not the money to acquire them, which he thanked or blamed, depending how one looked at it, on his father and his tightfisted brother, Reed. The rest he blamed on Cecily, the one woman he had ever told he loved—bitch.
“Jesus.” He threaded his fingers through his thick shoulder length hair as the familiar ache of betrayal bubbled to the surface again.
“This is what my life has come to.” Sighing heavily, he looked around the room he had rented. The furnishings were sparse at best and only consisted of a bed, chair, desk, and an old tube television that sat cockeyed on a faded dresser. Heavy pattered yellow curtains hung crookedly on the far wall, and a tan metal air conditioner/heater was underneath the window that made a knocking sound every time it kicked on.
Dropping his hands, he lifted up a bottle of whiskey and poured two glasses. A mirror was on the wall behind the bed. He assumed it was to make the small room seem larger but it didn’t really help. A lone floor lamp stood in the corner for no other apparent reason than to take up space, because when he tried to turn it on, it didn’t work. An ugly print of some animal was on the other wall, with a mountain scene and a stained multi colored shag carpet covered the floor.
Lifting his glass, he downed the contents and then refilled it. It seemed like a lifetime ago that he was back in England, begging his brother to help him out of yet another mess that he had gotten himself into.
The latest was a gambling debt. He owed some lowlifes from the underbelly of society quite a bit of money; if it wasn’t for that, he would have never entertained the notion of returning home to Ravenhurst—he hated it there. But he had a plan and it was a damn good one, too, until Cecily, “the Bitch” as he now referred to her as, betrayed him for money. He hoped Karma came and bit her in the ass like it was doing to him now.