"Damn, how're we gonna get outta here without anyone seeing us?" Shane moved off of the balcony rail he'd been leaning against. I pointed to the steps that led down to the garden."We go down this way and I idle the car down the driveway." That reminded me of the girls and what they'd been up to before we stopped them.Had that only been a few short hours ago? It felt like I'd aged ten years since then. I'd expected to spend the night with my girl after ragging Jace for letting Sian run circles around him.Instead I have knots in my gut because my girl and my sister had almost been blown to shit in that room. Alex looked back into the darkened room as if expecting to find someone there."So we're not telling Jace?""Not telling Jace what?" Shit, I thought he was on the other side of the house in his rooms. He came out of the dark room like a damn shadow.I could feel raw energy coming off him in waves and knew it was the anger that he was still trying to keep contained.
I approached slowly, quietly, so that I didn't wake her as I walked over to the bed and looked down at her in the moonlight.She was in the middle of the mattress with the sheet twisted around her. I'd put my shirt on her when we first got to the room and for some strange reason the sight of her in it made me feel...hot.I took my time appreciating her curves that were outlined by the sheet that had drawn taut around her middle and thighs. Now that she wasn't awake to hide herself from me I could look my fill without embarrassing her. She's so beautiful. I don't know why she doesn't see it. How can she not see what I see when I look at her? How can she not know how her beauty shines inside and out?Maybe it's this town filled with superficial women whose idea of beauty has become warped over time, that teaches girls that they have to fit into a certain mold to be accepted.It pisses me off that someone as brave and smart as she is, with the heart that she has, thinks that sh
Liars, every last one of 'em! Yep! I'll play their game for now, but I hope they know there're eyes and ears all over this place. If it comes to it, I'll just hit replay on this sector and this room and read their fucking lips if I have to. I didn't let my thoughts show on my face as I contemplated doing just that.Alex and Shane should know by now that they can't hide shit from me, I know them too well. I kinda get why they were keeping secrets this time though, they probably think they're protecting me."How're the girls doing?" I asked once Jared returned. Sian was finally asleep. I'd had a hell of a time getting her to go to sleep after slamming her. She was worried about everybody else and wanted to go check on them. Since she's my only concern right now I nixed that shit.I was afraid if I let her go wandering around with her nosy ass she might learn the truth about what really happened tonight. Right now she's still under the impression that this whole thing was an a
The fact that I don't care about her and show it is probably the reason why she can't let go. I never imagined that things would go this far though.But I should've known how she would react and been prepared. If I had, none of this would've happened. And Sian wouldn't be a fucking target.When Sian and I got engaged I wasn't thinking about anything else but making her mine. I'd missed a step there as well.Our engagement wasn't as small a deal as I made it out to be. She doesn't know it yet because I've been waiting until school was over to make the official announcement.But when she became my fiancée, it put her in a completely different league. I haven't prepared her, was giving her more time to enjoy what little freedom she has left before opening that door. In one move I'd made her an heiress to a fortune that was in the top one percent.I'd planned to tell her once school was out. I'd wanted to ease her into it slowly until she learned to accept what it truly meant to
Outside the sun was beginning to change the color of the sky and the birds were waking up in their nests. I ignored the pain in my hand as we headed for my truck. Alex jumped in the driver's seat and Track helped me get in the backseat, his face looking like a storm. "Hey how'd you get home so fast?""We'll talk when we get to your place." He slammed the door and jogged back to his car. Well shit, he's pissed. That's never good.The three in the truck with me kept throwing me looks like they expected me to go Hulk or some shit. "Don't ask me what happened because you know I don't know.""Yeah, we know, we were there." Shane turned to glare at me from the passenger seat. Then he shared a look with Jared which said, 'you see?' Like I didn't know they were hiding some shit."Okay what happened?""What happened? You went into the room, we were right behind you. Then you started breaking shit." There was still a hint of fear in his voice. "The wall, the mirrors, every damn t
Perfect, that's why I love Jace, he kinda thinks like me. "Did you go over there? You smell like smoke." She sniffed my shirt. "Yeah! I knew you were spending the night."My body shook with renewed horror. When I'd heard that explosion in the background and then that asshole had taken my phone...She's okay Track don't lose your shit in front of her and scare her. But I'd seen that house and knew the damage that could've been done had she and her friends been in that room."Where were you guys when it happened?" From the way she tensed up I knew I wasn't going to like what she was about to say. "Um, er...""Valerie!" I squeezed her shoulder."We were on our way to Mandy's house." The words came out in a rush and it took me a minute to figure out why the hell they would've been doing that. "Did you have fun before all this happened?" I decided to leave the Mandy thing alone for now until I had a chance to talk to Jace."Yes, these girls are nice, especially Sian. In fact
So far none of the things I've uncovered looks good for her. Not only that, but in order to protect her I've had to put myself in the government's hands under the pretense of helping them with their shady shit.What I'm doing is dangerous as fuck. If anything goes wrong with my plan Valerie will be left out here all alone with no one to take care of her. And my sister will spend the rest of her life in danger while I live out my days in some high security prison somewhere.I couldn't let my thoughts dwell in that dark place for too long though. I can't allow myself to be weak in anyway in the face of the shit I've learned in the last year.One of the things I'd learned so far is that I'm up against some heavy hitters. People who wouldn't stop until they got what they wanted, and what they wanted was my sister. I just don't know why yet.One of the reasons I'm so good at this hacking shit is because of my sixth sense. It's not quite ESP, don't know what it is, so I just call it
There was no point in going back to bed now since Sian was asleep, so we headed for the kitchen. I wasn't hungry but I needed to do something with myself so I might as well eat.My mind wouldn't let the past night's events rest and I wanted to be doing something, but there wasn't anything I could do until I knew more.Track came back downstairs not long after and headed straight for the fridge and a bottle of water. He tipped it back and emptied the bottle in a few swallows."You wanna tell me what the fuck happened?""I'm not sure yet but I'm pretty sure Mandy had something to do with it even if there's no evidence of that as yet.""Did they say what type of explosive was used?""Some kinda homemade pipe bomb. Don't worry your girl wasn't hurt. She was busy disobeying me along with Sian and the others.""Yeah, about that. What the fuck were they going to her house for?""What do you think? To confront her of course.""Hmm, I guess now they'll say that it was okay to