Getting Even

Natalie-Nicole Bates

Getting Even

A Short Story

First published by Perfectly Poisoned Press 2019

Copyright © 2019 by Natalie-Nicole Bates

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Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

About the Author

Also by Natalie-Nicole Bates

Chapter One

His name was Bennett Markus, not Benjamin Markus, and he was quick to point that out to anyone and everyone he met.

Alice MacIntosh, like the apple, would joke along with him. And she loved Bennett Markus.

That was a very long time ago.

She never wanted to use the word hate to describe her feelings toward Ben. Hate was an ugly word, but appropriate in this case. What Ben did was well deserving of her hate.

When