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Rose runs a hand through her hair in a sad sigh before shaking her head. She looks at Jake and I notice her hands trembling as they fall back beside her hips. Her eyes lock with mine for a split second.
“Why is she here? This has nothing to do with her.” She sniffles and only now do I see the size of her pupils. She runs a hand on her nose and lifts an eyebrow at Nathan.
The fact that she wants me out of here warms my heart, but I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. I need to be close to Jake, I need to help him get out of this situation.
“I have my own problems to solve with Jamie, this is not exactly your concern.” His eyes dart to Jake again and hers follow.
“Why are you doing this?” she pleads. “We were just fine being out of your way. We didn’t cause trouble. We didn’t mention you or Bianco. We just wanted to be left alone.”
“You were fine because you thought I was dead, you stupid bitch,” he rages as he grabs her by the hair.
She winces but doesn’t say anything until he pulls her to the floor, slamming the side of her face on top of the coffee table. Her grunt makes Sam flinch and I look at him with wide eyes, silently begging him to do something but he doesn’t move. I quickly turn back to Nathan as he keeps Rose’s cheek on the flat surface, right next to the paperwork.
“Look at him!” Nathan barks, and I know he’s talking about Jake.
His body looks lifeless on the floor and I can’t help the tears that are pooling in my eyes.
Please be alive. Please be alive.
“Nate…don’t do this to us.” Rose’s voice is strained with pain and I grimace for her.
“Do you think he’s still breathing?” Nathan seethes, his hand pushing Rose’s face further into the table. “Sign, Rose. Sign or I swear to God someone is dying tonight.”
“Nate, too far,” Sam growls but it seems this time it’s not enough. Nathan is lost in his fury and none of us can get him out of there.
“I said sign!” he screams the last word, and no one misses the whimper that escapes her mouth.
Sam strides toward them. Nathan stops him with a look, asserting a hierarchy I hadn’t seen between them before. He suddenly looks young in my eyes, much younger than Nathan. I had never wondered how old he is. He’s tall and big and it never occurred to me that he wasn’t the same age as Nathan. Sam runs a hand through his hair, his body emanating anxiety like I’ve never seen on him before. He whispers a ‘fuck’ and turns around to face the wall as he paces the room. I wish I could do the same. The scene in front of me will haunt me forever.
Rose taps the table blindly with a trembling hand, looking for the pen not far from her head.
“I-I can’t see,” she squeaks in pain and fear as her hand wraps around the pen.
He pulls at her head, straightening her on her knees and she grabs the paperwork, shaking.
I want to scream at her to not do it because that’s what Jake would do, but just like her I want this to be over, and if signing is what it’ll take then so be it.
She signs as quickly as possible and he lets go of her, patting the top of her head.
“Good choice,” he taunts.
She gets back up, raging. “I hate you,” she spits at him. “Enjoy this, because next time, I won’t miss.”
He smiles at her in all his power. “I’m shaking with fear,” he says calmly.
He grabs his phone and asks for an ambulance to the house. He mentions a home invasion and hangs up after giving the address.
“Fuck everything up,” he orders Carlo and Roy and they both go out, coming back with a bat each.
“Nathan! You’ve done enough,” I fume. I pull at the ropes with rage but none of them move in the slightest. He comes back to me and tips my head up with a strong hand.
“I want to take you upstairs and fuck you, can we keep the ropes?”
The mixed reactions in my body make me sick. I hate him, I’ve never hated someone as much as I do now. My boyfriend, the love of my life, is lying unconscious on the floor and that’s because of him. He’s dangerous, his moral compass is broken, he’s broken. And he breaks everyone around him for fun.
But my muscle memory doesn’t care about all of this. It remembers the way he made my body feel and squirm under him before. I shudder at his words. No, I don’t want to be fucked by Nathan upstairs while downstairs, Jake is beaten up to an inch of his life and Rose was just coerced into signing her life away.
He leans down to put his mouth to my ear so that only I can hear him. “I’m taking your silence as a yes, beautiful.”
