For Them

Jax POV

We sit in silence as time passes, and finally, Cole steps back. I glance in the mirror. There, over my heart, is a tattoo of her lips in the bright red she always wears. “Dhalia” is written above them, and “Blake” below.

It’s perfect. I watch as Chase tells Cole to add Blake’s name to his tattoo as well. In Blake’s mind, we’ll all have the same tattoo when we show her tomorrow. He has no clue about this.

After Cole leaves, Chase sits opposite me. I don’t want to, but I need to apologise. “I’m sorry. I made everything worse by shutting you out.”

“I did cause it, Jax. The reason I pushed back so hard was because I knew I caused it. I took your phone, then Blake’s. Yes, you two let it happen, but you believed I’d gotten confirmation it was her.”

We did, and that’s why I was so confused and shocked when it wasn’t her name. “Either way, we all had a chance to stop it and didn’t. We should get some sleep. Something tells me Blake and Dhalia will be a handful tomorrow.”

They seem to