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“My phone is dead, you?”
She only shakes her head no and hands me Rose’s phone. Fear curls around my stomach and clutches too hard for me to ignore. I need to know she’s okay. I need to know he’s not hurting her. She’s not okay though. The invisible bond we share between twins always tells me when she’s not fine.
I unlock her phone quickly, typing the password she’s convinced I don’t know, and look at her recent calls. Chris is getting his tooth fixed. Luke is with him. Either way, I wouldn’t want any of them to come with me to Bianco’s house. I can’t put them at risk.
There’s only one person I know that will be here in a split second without hesitation and as I’m about to tap his number on the screen, his car pulls up in front of me. At the same second, Nate settles behind me, his hand on the shaking shoulder of the officer that called Bianco.
“I-I only did what you had told me, Mr. White,” his shaking voice forces me to roll my eyes. What a fucking coward. “You said to always get you out.”
Nate ignores him completely and walks to Jamie. I can’t help sliding an arm around her shoulders.
“You need to go home. Can anyone pick you up?” he asks her.
Behind Nate, Sam has gotten out of his car and lights up a cigarette as he lays back on the driver’s door.
“We’ll drive her home,” I reply before she can say anything.
Nate barely looks at me but gives Jamie a single nod.
“Where are you going?” she questions me.
Nate is already talking to Sam and the latter is looking right into the cop’s eyes, a wicked grin slowly forming on his lips. The fuckers are out for blood but they’re only wasting time.
“You’re not going to D.C., are you?” she insists.
How can I tell her no? Of course we are.
Rose is only surrounded by people who love and adore her. Some of them are even obsessed with her but out of all of them, only three would kill for her and that’s us. As much as I want to keep Jamie close to me right now, I have to get my sister back from Bianco and it’s too dangerous for her to come with us. Even Nate knows that.
“I am,” I reply. “I have to.”
What else can I say? ‘Sorry to leave you after you waited all night for me, but I need to make sure my sister doesn’t get molested by the guy who runs the gang I grew up in.’ I shiver at the thought.
I try to be strong, I really do. But I can be the strongest man on earth, Nate and Sam can be the toughest, but in the end, your weaknesses always lay in the ones we love.
Thankfully Jamie doesn’t ask for an explanation. If it’s because she saw Bianco, if it’s because she saw the fear in Rose when he showed up, then she can only understand.
“Please, be careful.” That’s the only thing she says. Her voice is a mix of pleading and understanding.
She doesn’t say anything when I settle her in Sam’s white SUV that he should have never been able to afford. She keeps her eyes fixed on the headrest in front of her when Sam knocks out that cop and we both put him in the trunk of his car. This is when I understand that Nate has a bigger hold on this city than I thought. He’s not worried the slightest to kidnap a cop in the parking lot of a police station. He thinks he’s invincible, like always.
Jamie still doesn’t talk when I settle next to her and Sam starts driving to her house or when that cop wakes up and starts screaming in the trunk of the car.
She lets me hold her hand when Nate calmly pulls out a gun from the glove compartment, Sam stops the car, and my brother opens the trunk to get Miller to keep quiet by knocking him out with the gun handle. I’ve seen these kinds of things countless times during my childhood, and it doesn’t affect me anymore, not like it does to her right now. Her body is with me, but I think her mind has escaped. I think she doesn’t want to be here with us because it’s gone too far for her.
I leave her be, I stay quiet beside her, squeezing her hand to show that I’m here and she’s safe but inside me, there’s havoc. Is my life really going back to this? Three years of peace, that’s all I got. All I was allowed.
I wouldn’t be surprised if that was their plan, if they knew they were gonna get me and Ozy back all along. Mateo and Nate were counting the days until they were going to take over Stoneview and have us back on their side. Nate played dead for three years, getting his perfect plan ready.
My brother sits back in the car and turns to Sam. “Drop her home. Then I need to fix this shit with Mateo.”
I hit my head against the headrest, praying that tonight can be it. I can drive to D.C., get Ozy, and go back to my normal life in Stoneview.
Who the fuck are you kidding?
Life won’t go back to normal. The clock started ticking as soon as Sam showed up at our school and we had already lost when Nate magically reappeared. He might have come back from the dead, but he doomed us all when he came to get us.
I can drive to D.C. all I want, I can bring Ozy back, it won’t stop Mateo. He knows where we are, and I’ve given him a chance to waltz back into our lives with a big smile on his face.
