1. Prologue - Ev

The Mission: Impossible theme was not the earworm Ev needed right now. He flicked his tongue against the base of his labret piercing, then caught it between his teeth to keep himself from humming. The windows were all dark, as he'd known they would be. His target was predictable like that. Ev crept up the driveway, sticking to the shadowed edge. There was no moon tonight, and the streetlights were few and far between. Even if someone were to look, he would be nearly invisible in his dark clothes and knit hat. That was the hope anyway. It would be no good if he got caught before he enacted his revenge.

"Dun dun dah-dah, dun dun dah-dah," he sang under his breath as he ducked behind the trash cans. "Do-do-do-do, do-do-do-do." Checking his surroundings one last time, he darted across the driveway to the keypad that controlled the garage door. This was the tricky part. He input the code, tensing as the motor cut on with a deep rattle and the door began to rise. His target's bedroom was on the far side of the house, so chances were good he wouldn't hear anything, but if he did, Ev was screwed.

When the door stopped, Ev held his breath, ears straining for any sign he was about to be caught. Seconds ticked by, but he heard nothing. He let out his breath, then slipped into the dark garage. His heart was in his throat, the beat of it throbbing against his windpipe. He swallowed it down. The hard part was done. It only took a moment to drop his backpack to the ground and retrieve his supplies. He didn't even have to worry about fingerprints. He'd been in both the garage and the car often enough over the last ten months that any evidence could easily be explained away.

He opened the car door and slid into the driver's seat. With his piercing caught between his teeth again, he oh-so carefully unscrewed the jar containing his revenge. He couldn't help a giggle as he tilted it and almost a pound of glitter poured down into the car's air vents. His ex-daddy was going to be in for a sparkly pink surprise in the morning. Ev only wished he could be there to see it. Taking a moment, he set all the vents to point toward the driver's seat, then adjusted the air to high. The next person who turned on the car would be directly in the line of fire.

Now, for the second part of his plan. He reached down and popped the trunk. If his ex-daddy had been only his ex, Ev probably would have stopped at the glitter. But no. The man was also his ex-boss. Cheating on Ev had been bad enough, but then, when Ev had found out and dumped him, the asshole had gone and fired him as well. He said it was because Ev couldn't keep their personal and professional lives separate. As if Jason didn't deserve to be cussed out in the middle of the break room.

Ev's anger and helplessness over the whole situation came rushing back. The asshole deserved what he was going to get. He was supposed to be Ev's Daddy. He was supposed to protect him. Instead, he'd done this. Jason's laptop was in the trunk, where he always left it. Ev successfully logged in on the first try. As with the garage door, Jason hadn't bothered to change his password. Ev plugged a flash drive into the machine and then located the file he was looking for. It only took a few seconds to replace Jason's presentation with Ev's slightly edited version. Jason was going to have an extremely bad time at the shareholder's meeting tomorrow. Ev just hoped none of the old rich dudes on the board had a heart attack when faced with the uninspired dick pics and creepy sexts Jason had sent to half a dozen other boys.

Ev put everything back where he found it, grabbed his backpack, and closed the garage door behind him. He managed to hold it together until he was back in his own car, and then he collapsed into giggles. He could picture it now. Jason, rushing to get to work in the morning and getting hit in the face with a mountain of glitter, arriving late for his big presentation—a presentation Ev had done all the work on, by the way—and opening the file to a slideshow of dicks.

Ev still had a few friends from the office. Hopefully one of them would come through and fill him in on the fallout. In the meantime, Ev had more than learned his lesson. This was the last time he would ever date his boss.