Winter strode angrily towards the kitchen. It wasn’t fair. She wasn’t going to take a punishment that wasn’t her fault. She fumed angrily to herself. It was Rider’s freaking fault she was in trouble anyway, throwing away another one of her baskets from the dollar bin that she had purchased for the hundredth time. It wasn’t her fault she had lost her temper and after taking the basket out of the trash, she had banged it against the offending member.
Everyone kept stealing the damn things, using them to organize their crap and leaving her damn seeds unorganized. She always somehow managed to draw them as punishment. Well not today. Last time she had noticed that everyone else’s papers had been folded multiple times while hers was smooth. They had conspired against her so that she was always the one drawing the hated punishment. Not freaking today.
Winter stood against the wall. She didn’t have time for this, she needed to balance Riverview’s budget. The school board had given her the job without telling her the school had been given the shaft where funding was concerned. That crap was going to change too she thought. Viper didn’t know it yet, but he was going to be making a large donation, she thought in revenge.
“Evie.” Evie moved to take her slip of paper before sitting back down.
“Bliss.” Winter rolled her eyes at that one.
“Rider.” Winter could barely restrain herself from flipping him off.
“Pretty girl.” She didn’t try to hide her resentment as she went to the hated red punishment bag, dipping her hand inside. Her finger couldn’t find any slips of papers in the bag, instead brushing a small box. Pulling it out, she held the small box in her hand before opening it. Inside lay an emerald engagement ring.
“Will you marry me, pretty girl?” Viper asked as The Last Riders waited for her answer.
Winter flung herself into his arms to the loud cheers inside the room.
“Yes, I’ll marry you,” Winter answered staring up into his eyes.
Viper gave her a teasing grin. “I’m you’re punishment,” he said with the red cloth bag still in his hand.
“No, Viper,” Winter said. “You’re my reward.”