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CHAPTER 22
‘I’ll take my bow
I won’t make a sound
I whisper truce
As the ashes hit the ground’
Scars – Boy Epic
Five hours earlier . . .
Jake
“You made the right choice, brother,” Nate murmurs as we wait to be invited into Bianco’s office.
I didn’t have much of a choice, I want to retort but I keep my mouth shut.
We’re sitting on the two red velvet armchairs right outside his door, facing the opposite wall of the hallway. Nate went in a half an hour ago to give him the paperwork Rose and I signed, then came back out.
I’m fuming, fucking raging. There’s havoc exploding in my head and my heart, but I keep still. The migraine beating against my skull is threatening to make me throw up every minute or so. My thumb is still sore despite the painkillers, my chest feels so fucking tight, and I can feel every single one of my ribs every time I take a breath. I can’t even breathe through my swollen nose courtesy of my own flesh and blood.
And yet, that’s not why I’m so angry.
Of course I’m angry at Nate. That’s not news though, I’ve always hated him. I’ve hated him for so long it’s like a dull ache in my heart that never ceases to exist.
But right now, I want to break every single one of Rose’s bones. That’s how angry I am at her. How could she do this to me? How could she sign? We expected Nate to threaten us. We expected him to bully us into signing and we both promised we wouldn’t give in.
I have vague memories of last night. I remember Nate finding Jamie in the house and I remember her cries when they tied her up and she watched me get beaten up. Guilt twists in my guts for putting her through this. That’s not how her senior year was meant to go. I burst into her life and fucked her tranquility. Tranquility she more than deserved after what she’d been through with her dad and brother.
Rose was there when I came back to reality, and I wish I never did. I couldn’t face her, I couldn’t talk to her, I couldn’t tell her it was okay because it really wasn’t. The way she apologized broke my heart. I know she was scared for my life, but I was still too mad to forgive her. It’ll come. Just not now. Because of her, the first thing I did after being released from the hospital was come here. So here I am, 7:30 am, waiting for Bianco to let us into his office.
“Stop making this face, Jake. You would have done the same in her situation.”
Can the fucker read my mind or something? I glance at Sam walking in circles, his phone to his ear. I can’t see him properly because of my swollen eyelids and I can’t hear what he’s mumbling because of the ringing in my ears. I’m running purely on adrenaline right now and I could shut down any minute.
“That bastard isn’t letting go, you know that?” Nate grumbles in the seat next to mine.
I’m not sure what he means but I know I’m about to understand when he gets up, annoyed. He walks to Sam and snatches the phone from his hand.
“I think you need to start taking my advice more seriously, mate. You and my sister are not a thing. You’re never gonna be a thing so stop feeding her hope by checking on her every time you do something wrong,” Nate says, exasperated.
“I just want to know she’s alright,” Sam growls after Nate gives him the phone back.
“I’ll save you time. After what we did last night? Probably not.”
There’s only one thing Nate and I will ever agree on and that’s that Sam is not an option for our sister. Not now, not ever. I don’t even care how it sounds. It’s not fucking happening. Nate is about to sit back down next to me when the door to Bianco’s office opens to a petite blond with big brown eyes.
“Boys, please come in,” she tells us.
I walk in and Nathan follows.
“Anne,” he purrs as he brushes her arm walking past her.
“Nathan,” she replies in a sweet voice.
I roll my eyes as much as I can in my state. He fucks everything with legs and then dares trying to break me and Jamie up.
