Trial & Error ✓

19 | exes & ohs

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exes & ohs

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THAT MOMENT WOULD be missed dearly. Because only minutes after, when we had finished eating, did we both get a text from Theo in the group chat telling us about a code red. Which could've had many meanings to Teddy such as Feldman catching on to our ruses, or his mother needing a ride home. But to me it meant one thing and one thing only: Violet Rady was in the building.

I had initially thought that Theo and I would be helping each other to help avoid her, but I guess that plan was as good as canceled. I looked at Teddy to see how he was feeling, but he didn't even flinch. I mean, there was no way that he would've without knowing, but it was still painful to see. Because I knew I still wouldn't be prepared to see his expression change, even if it was moments away from happening.

"Hey," Teddy said. "Lets go check out this code red thing. Mother better not be drinking peach schnapps again, I told her they make her stomach hurt twice tonight."

With that he walked off and I was thankful he didn't ask me if I knew anything about it. Because I was terribly sure it'd be hard to lie to him about.

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IF VIOLET KNEW one thing, it was how to command attention. While the show was going on seamlessly around her, the people in her general vicinity couldn't even be helped from looking at her. Her dress was amazing, making her look so intimidating but also very sexy and I couldn't help but stare at her in awe like everyone else when we finally made it to the center of the ballroom.

Violet looked me over quick before focusing her attention on Teddy who seemed to be frozen, but for a different reason. I could just see the rage boiling in him underneath the surface, the concentration of it too powerful to be contained. He was mad, or rather he was absolutely livid to see her here. But he couldn't do anything about that, not in public with everyone watching. Or at least I hoped he wouldn't.

But of course, he wasn't who he was if he was t unpredictably predictable. Teddy made his way to his ex-wife in quick strides, leaving Theo and I struggling to keep our pace with him in case he did something rash and requiring manpower to stop.

"Edward," she said with a nod towards him and it was like she was wearing karma all over her. She was the spitting image of glory and vengeance and you would've thought that Teddy was the one who screwed her over and not the other way around. "Theodore, Marilyn," she acknowledged the rest of us.

"Violet," Teddy nodded, keeping his cool unlike he did when I saw him and her go at it in the office. "You're looking very... less like the devil incarnate and more like a decent person."

"Aw, you're sweet, Teddy," she grinned as she ran a hand through her hair. "Still have that attitude, don't you?"

"You mean the one you gave me?" Teddy snarled, taking a step closer to her. "Yeah, I think I still need it considering we work only like twenty feet apart from each other. If I use anything else against you, I could get into some very big legal trouble."

"Well you're not going to be using it against me for any longer," she said. "In fact, I actually have a story to tell you. One that'll have you back to me in no time, darling."

"It's Teddy," he said. "To you, to everyone except my parents. No Edward and definitely not darling. You lost your right to call me that when you cheated on me and had someone else's baby."

Violet just smirked, way too confident for her own good with the way Teddy was talking about her. Personally, I wouldn't be able to own up to the things I had done so easily. "We'll see about that, then."