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I spit blood out of my mouth while trying to contemplate getting up.In a minute.It still hurts too much.
Groaning, I roll over onto my side, then flop onto my back and prise my eyes open to stare up at Odi. I half expected her to have fled, but no. She’s standing over me with a gun pointed directly at my chest.My gun, I realise.
Fuck. This is not how I saw this interaction going.
“Odi, please,” I beg. No idea what I’m begging for, maybe a hand getting up? A bullet would hurt less than my balls do right now, unless she shot me between the legs. I wince at the very thought.
“You need to stay the fuck away from me, you fucking rapist,” she hisses. It hurts. I know she’s hurting more, but she has to know that I’dneverhurt her.
“It’s not like that,” I wheeze. I can already tell that my pleas are falling on deaf ears. What’s the point in continuing? She’s not ready to hear what I have to say. She may never be.
“Did you rape that fucking teacher too, back in school? Is that why your father had her sent to prison? To stop the truth from getting out about you, his rapist scum son?”
“Watch it,” I warn, anger flaring. I may still be prone on my back, but I’m motherfucking Axel Abbot andno onespeaks to me like that. “Let’s just go. I can explain?—”
Ha. Who am I kidding? I feel like my dick is bleeding worse than my nose is. There’s no way I can get to my feet right now andgoanywhere.
“The time for explaining has long since passed, Axel!” she cries, near hysterical. I’m pretty sure it’s bad for her heart condition but I think if I tell her to calm down right now, she would definitely shoot me.
“You never explain. You never apologise. There’s always secrets, and for every tidbit you reveal, a thousand more questions go unanswered. You asked me to trust you. Begged me to choose you. And this is how you pay me back?”
“Odi, I will tell you everything. Just come and get in the car with me.”And maybe give me a hand getting up first?
“I don’t want your words, your empty promises. I want you to stay the fuck away from me!” she screams, making me wince. If we’re not careful, she’s going to attract an audience, and that would be…really fucking bad actually.
“Take the car. Go home,” I tell her, trying to offer an olive branch. “I’ll respect your wishes and stay away.”
She huffs. “That’s magnanimous of you.”
“I’m trying,” I reply with a pained grimace.
“This isn’t trying,” she scoffs. “You’re…” she pauses, seeming to debate for a minute. “Forget it. I’m taking back some control. I’m fucking out of here.”
Shaking her head, she turns away from me once more, and I know that I’ve well and truly fucked up this time. In my panic I call out to her.
“Odi!” She freezes. “Go to them.”
“What?” She turns back to glare at me.
I swear the kick to the balls has addled my brain because Ihearthe danger in her tone, but it doesn’t register or stop me. It’s not a question but a threat,daringme to finish that statement.
And because I’m a fucking moron, I do.
“Kaiden, or even Zie. If you want comfort, that is. The deal can be off for one night. You can be with them if it helps. Tonight. Only tonight.”
“Fuck. You. You’re really something else, you know that?” She raises the gun once more and a hardness settles over her features. “I don’t know what’s worse. The fact that you fuckingraped me and kept it quiet all this time, or the insane, deluded idea that you think there’s still any sort of arrangement between us!”
She pulls the trigger and pain tears through the top of my arm. It’s fucking agony – taking a bullet is never fun fucking foreplay – but the horror on Odi’s face is what destroys me. The gun hits the floor and she bolts before I have the strength to get to my feet.
I’ve well and truly fucked up. Perhaps irrevocably this time.
Fucking hell.By the time I make it out of the forest, the car and Odi are long gone. I know I told her to take it, but I wasn’t planning on walking home with a fucking bullet wound and a dick that’s throbbing for all the wrong reasons. I swear my balls have crawled up inside my body to hibernate and they have no plans of coming out again any time soon.
Every single step is pained and it takes me way too long to reach the road.
I need to speak to my father. But I can’t rock up in this state. There’s no way I can show him weakness like this. He’d take one look at me, his weak, pathetic excuse for a son, and he’d put a round of bullets in me himself to finish me off.No one bests an Abbot.
Standing with the rubble of Odi’s childhood home before me, I contemplate the houses on either side. I know both are empty, but Zie’s house will have far more security, so I opt for Kaiden’s instead. His father has always been too fucking out of it to give a shit about security or secrecy.
