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“Fuck you!” I seethed, grabbing the lamp and chucking it at both of my brothers. “How could you do this to me?”
It shattered on the wall behind them, and I could see it in their eyes that they didn’t want to do this. Luke wasn’t just radiating heat; he was exploding from the inside out.
“What do you have on them?” I questioned in a biting voice.
“Sloan… sweetheart,” my father harassed. “Your brothers know what’s good for them if they don’t bring the two of you to me. Now,” he accentuated the last word.
“I can’t believe this,” I voiced, my heart breaking.
My mind couldn’t think anymore. There was nothing else I could contemplate, rationalize, understand, or even begin to explain.
My body shuddered.
My hands were shaking.
I found it hard to see.
To breathe.
All I could do was feel.
Everything sort of tunneled out for me. I was there, but I wasn’t. In the exact same way, I’d pretend I was somewhere else entirely when I was with men I had to be with.
I know enough about trauma to know that it works in mysterious ways.
My mind shut down to protect itself as they continued their phone call, which ended in Luke spewing, “I’m not packin’, motherfuckers. Are you that big of pussies that you can’t take me like a man? You gotta use your guns to do your biddin’?”
“Well, then…” Xavier greeted. “We haven’t been properly introduced. I’m the man who’s going to kill you.”
“Naw…” Luke glared at him. “That’s your daddy’s job or else you would have killed me already in my sleep.”
“I would have.” Xavier firmly nodded to him. “But I figured the least I could do was let you fuck my sister.” He paused for effect. “You’re welcome.”
I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. I was in this alternate universe, and a huge part of me thought I was having a nightmare I needed to wake myself up from.
“I don’t understand…” I coaxed, trying to contain my emotions that were getting the best of me. “You would never… this is… what the fuck is going on?”
“What’s going on,” Nav repeated, still aiming his gun at my forehead while X aimed his at Luke’s.
“This is the only way to get this son of a bitch”—Nav gestured to Luke—“out of your life. What did you think we were going to do? Let you be with an enemy? You saw what we did to your first boyfriend. Why would you think this piece of shit would be any different?”
“What about me?” I objected. “Why are you making me go back to him? You know?—”
“Either your dad’s whore or his…” Nav countered. “I’m going to go with dad.”
My hand actually shot to my heart as Luke’s hand was around Navarro’s throat, slamming him into the nearest wall before he could complete his sentence.
Nav simply laughed his ass off as drywall crumbled to their feet.
“You don’t ever speak to her like that.” Luke got close to his face, gritting out, “Do you understand me?”
Navarro smiled. There was a gleam in his eyes that lit up his entire face. He was enjoying this.
“Oh my God…” I pleaded, feeling at a loss. “Just fucking kill me because it would hurt far less than what you’re doing to me.” My eyes laced with fresh tears. “How can you say that to me?”
Not missing a beat, X pulled out another gun and placed it on Luke’s back. “We can’t change who you are, Sloan, but you’ve always been daddy’s little girl, and that’s just the way it is. At least you’re safer with him.”
“Safer?” I cried out, feeling my world crashing down on me.
