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A low growl rumbles from the back of his throat, and he moves me backwards towards the wall. Inexplicably, I move with him, my arms still full of t-shirts. He pushes his body towards mine so we’re touching at all the most exciting points. Heat takes over me from my toes to the top of my head. I have no idea how long it goes on for. Seconds. Minutes. I feel totally oblivious of our surroundings. I have truly lost my mind, it’s a total blank.
And then, he’s gone.
I instantly go cold and realise I’ve had my eyes closed. As they flutter open, I see James spinning him around to face him, his features twisted in anger.
“Get your hands off my mother!” He draws his arm back and punches the man’s face, knocking him to the floor. Or it would have been the floor if the hugest t-shirt box in the world was not in the way and he fell into it.
Pandemonia breaks out. The two security guys start shouting and trying to grab James. This prompts the band, Jackson, Jonno, and Jude—who entered the room as soon as the shouting started—to jump into the fray. Punches are thrown. Screams break out from some girls who somehow made it into the room in the melee and are now trying to duck for cover and get out of the way. Tables are overturned, food and drink sent flying. Anything the lads can pick up and throw is added to the arsenal.
“STOOOOOOOOPP!” I shout at the top of my lungs, regaining my senses.
James, who was just about to start in and punch Xan, who is trying to defend the man in the box, looks at me with completely wild eyes but doesn’t connect. He smirks at me, totally enjoying himself.
“Just stop please, all of you,” I command.
James smiles at me and then looks down at the man struggling to get out of the box of shirts. His face changes in an instant. “Oh, it’s you,” he spits out on a laugh full of sarcasm and contempt. “Hello, Daddy. Finally decided to turn up, have you?”
Chapter
Five
Marcus
I freeze. What the Fuck!
The room freezes, everyone stops trying to hit each other. It would be comical if it weren’t real. The room is deathly silent as all heads spin towards me on the floor. I look up at Evie—the girl I would know anywhere, clearly now a woman. My body fires into life. The silent primal scream fighting for release claws through me, a physical being trying to grasp at the woman I’ve not seen for eighteen years—as she stares at the boy who just called ME ‘Daddy.’
“James,” she breathes out, not even looking at me.
I look up at him as he glares down at me, his eyes exactly like mine when I’m just about to go berserk. And I mean exactly like mine. Green, limbal ring, same shape, brows pulled down together in a mega scowl. I start to struggle off the floor and smack Xan on the arm. He’s standing stock still, staring transfixed at both Evie and the boy. His jaw slack and eyes wide.
“Help me out of this fucking thing!” I shout, bringing him out of his trance.
She finally turns her beautiful grey eyes to me and whispers. “Kellen? What the hell.”
The name hits me, a solid blow, stalling the breath in my lungs and the words on my lips. No one has called me that for eighteen years. I’ve not allowed anyone to call me that. Not since the day she disappeared from my life.
I look from one to the other and am just about to open my mouth to start asking questions, when Evie asks, “James, how long have you known?”
The boy, James, curls his lip at me. “Since I was ten years old.”
“Ten,” she squeaks. “Why did you not say? I asked you if you wanted to know then, and now, and you said no.”
He shrugs. “Knowing the truth doesn’t change my answer. I was working with Uncle Jonno on a family tree project in school. I hacked your account. The one you hold all the scanned documents on. Found my real birth certificate. Not the paper one you show everyone with no info on it.”
Evie turns to Jonno, her hands on her hips, eyes flashing in anger. “You taught him to hack?” she practically shouts at him. “What the fuck you doing Jonno?” All three brothers are stood in front of me scowling, but Jonno just shrugs at her stating, “Well, he’s a bright boy. He picks things up really quickly. Best protégé I have.” He smirks and goes to high five James then looks at Jackson and says, “Don’t just blame me. Jackson takes him on cases.”
She spins round to Jackson, the older brother. “Jesus Christ, are you lot mad? What have you taught him?” she spits at him.
“Surveillance and tracking,” James answers for him. “Which is why I know where he lives in London, with all his shitty family.” Pointing at me, he goes on, totally shocking me. “It’s the same house we got thrown out of, Mum. When I was little.”
What the fucking hell is going on here?
“Shit. I didn’t think you’d remember that,” she says in horror.
I’m reeling, shaking so hard I expect a fault line to open up and swallow me whole. I need some answers very fucking quickly. I start to ask something, but Evie totally cuts me off and starts onto Jonno and Jackson about the fact that her son has been taken on cases and can hack, apparently like a pro.
“Just stop,” I shout at them, flinging my arms in the air for them all to listen and stop arguing and bickering. They all look like they’re really enjoying themselves, fucking crazies. The next bit however I don’t enjoy, as they all turn towards me.
