CHAPTER IV
Angelina was not happy about the current circumstances surrounding her love life. Sure she had disrupted more lives than she'd cared to admit by leaving George, but she had only done so under the promise of bigger and better things. She thought she had found someone more suited to give her that. Once she'd left, it was too late for her to back out of her choice of another man before realizing that bigger and better didn't come without the price of possibly losing one's sense of self worth first. The love she'd felt from George for so long was not what she'd gained in the new man.
Christian was never cruel or hurtful. He simply never figured out the right ways to love unconditionally. Still she stayed. She stayed until he'd found someone else. She stayed until she had finally truly realized what she'd done to George. What she'd realized losing him meant. And when she'd tried to apologize, she had found him moving on. He was with another. He was giving the love he 'd once had for her to another woman. Secretly, she couldn't stand seeing him so happy again. She hadn't expected to come back with his arms wide open, and waiting for her, but finding out that there was someone else in his life was wounding. She had hoped to at the very least salvage a friendship between the two. She now found that task as easy a possibility as breaking up Harry Potter and his wife. It would never happen. There was no hope.
She sat outside of a small café in Hogsmeade, drinking a cup of tea, trying to separate one thought from another when a voice behind her whispered into her ear.
"Well, what a fantastic twist of coincidence." The man's voice spoke.
Angelina turned around to see him standing behind her, now leaning against another chair. He moved the chair up beside her and sat. She wasn't certain, but it looked for a second as if he had smiled.
"What do you want?"
He recovered from her unpleasant tone instantly. "I couldn't help but notice your recent short reunion with your ex-fiance. I assume you've heard of his new plaything. It seems you and I have a similar interest when it comes to your ex and the Minister's daughter."
Angelina scoffed. "I don't know what you're talking about."
"Don't you?" The man questioned her. "So then you have no interest in regaining a lost love?"
"Excuse me?" She looked straight into his eyes, showing no fear of him.
"Weasley." The man said. "You have no interest in him becoming a fixture in your life again?"
Angelina sighed, drinking from her tea cup again. "What if I did? What concern is it to you?"
"As I said, we have a similar interest. You want a Weasley, and I would greatly benefit from being more intimately acquainted to his new close personal friend."
"I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but George has made it perfectly clear that he has no intention of wanting to be a part of his life. He also has no interest in anyone other than Mackenzie Chase."
The man placed a hand to her shoulder. "Be that as it may, you will surely at the least gain his attention back if he no longer has Mackenzie by his side."
Angelina couldn't hide her interest. "You have a plan then?"
"Oh yes. From the minute I met her in the bookstore." He told her. "I never approach anything important in my life without a good plan."
"How do I know I can trust you?"
He looked at her and did not blink. "I have no interest in Weasley. I only need the Minister's ear and Mackenzie Chase at my side."
Angelina nodded, deciding to trust the man, only because he showed no deep interest in bringing harm to her or what she wanted. There was no proof not to trust him yet.
"Let's say that I decide to help you, if only to get what I want. What would I have to do?"
He really did smile this time. "I will let you know when the time comes." The man stood, replacing the chair to where it had been. "Until then, do not speak of this to anyone."
He turned away and Angelina felt an uneasy tranquility wash over her. If any plans in the works were accomplished and worked out to her advantage, so much the better. But sure as anything, there would be hell to pay if she didn't get what she wanted too. After all, it was Draco Malfoy she had agreed to help. She had made a deal with the devil.
A/N: I know that this was a very short chapter, but I only needed to set up the plans between Angelina and Malfoy.
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