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
I've been trying hard not to come on too strong. She already thinks I'm overbearing though she has no idea. If she knew how much I want to smother her she'd freak.Not only because of my own personal need to be part of everything where she's concerned, but also out of necessity.As part of my family there are certain things that will have to change, things I haven't told her about as yet. I didn't want to scare her off in the beginning before we even had a chance.But how much longer can I allow her the freedom that she has now? How will she react to the reality of who I am and who she'll be as an extension?If this keeps up I'm afraid I'm going to have to take drastic measures and knowing her stubborn ass, she's not going to like it. But I might not have a choice after last night.I'd barely been willing to give the cops the time they asked for before, but I don't think I can go through another attack on her without taking action no matter what my dad or hers say.I brushe
We had years ahead of us before dad stepped down. Years in which to get her ready for that future role. I didn't want to rob either of us of that time.But if I don't do something, if I don't stand in front of her now, how will my enemies take me seriously? In a little less than a year I'm going to graduate and leave her behind.That's something that's been plaguing me even before all of this started. My dream is that she'd be able to graduate early and join me but that's not guaranteed.How can I even think of leaving her behind when others were trying to harm her? If I don't take care of this now, will someone else come out of the woodwork somewhere down the line and go after her again because they see me as a weakling who doesn't know how to protect his woman?I sighed in frustration as I took her hand in mine. I shouldn't be having these thoughts, shouldn't have to deal with anything this heavy at my age. But it seems I have no control over it.That other people are going
We piled into four separate SUVs after saying bye to the parents. I felt kinda bad because it was the end of our weekend and everyone would be heading to their homes after dinner and we hadn't done any of the things we'd had planned.We'd pretty much just hung around the pool yesterday under Jace's watchful eye of course and pigged out on junk food while watching movies last night.All the stuff I'd bought for our girls' night was back at my house, probably destroyed and Jace refused to let me go to the store to get more.He held my hand all the way there as he drove with me in the front passenger seat next to him. He wasn't talking but everyone else seemed to have already gotten over our little excitement and was back to their usual noisy selves.Once we arrived I opened my door to jump down from the truck and follow the others but he refused to release my hand. I looked at him questioningly but of course there was no explanation forthcoming. Typical Jace."Wait!" Is he mad