Teaser from a new story – This is one I am writing for a charity anthology. I will be posting more on this soon .

Revenge is best served Family style

Cold Played Anthology

Serena Mossgraves

Reddit has nothing on me. I got the best story of Nuclear revenge, and it was just deserts. Though I am still not sure if I believe it myself.  It feels like I am living in a dream.
    You see I was engaged…To a right bastard. I should have walked away the first time he laid hands on me. Somehow, he convinced me that he was sorry for his actions. I covered the bruises, hoping that he was actually sorry. After all, he was everything I was supposed to want. He was a doctor from a good family. He even had one of those funky pretentious names, Dr Gerald Theodore Ellington the third. His family were community pillars, and rich as they come. The bruises and his drunken nights were just a window to what I would be living with for however long I lived with him. His sister would come over when he was at work, hang out with me and tell me how I deserved better. 
    At first I was confused. I knew that  Gerry and his sister did not get along. She was older than him, and he was older than me. I was barely eighteen, too young to understand the mess I had gotten myself into.  Stephanie, Gerry’s sister, was a thirty something sweetie who seemed to take me under her wing.  Gerry was five years younger than her and wouldn’t talk about her. She was something of a black sheep in her own family,  and if I am honest I didn’t understand why. She was intelligent, soft spoken, and elegant. 
    Gerry was attractive enough, I guess. The same dark hair and light blue eyes that was on all of his kin was on him. He did not keep it as clean as his brothers and sister.  Stephanie  had apparently inherited the family home and the other siblings hated it. Their parents had died in a plane crash before I met Gerry. I originally was taken in by his charm. He could be very charming if the situation called for it.
    Gerry had a nice place in Old town Alexandria but the family home was in Sterling. It was a palatial estate with a good twenty acres of land. I moved in with Gerry when he proposed