CHAPTER 166

ALEXANDER

The azure burn of the sun climbing into the sky burned my eyes as I wove between cars on the stretch of asphalt, my nostrils flaring at the salty sea smell of the morning breeze.

I was fucked, harder than a down bad gambler who had lost a game of black jack.

I couldn’t believe Darlene would do something like that! I didn’t want to, but the image of my brother dipping his head to her open breasts was still too fresh in my mind.

“Watch where yer going asshole!” The shrill scream of the man overtaking me snapped me back to reality just as the wash of bright yellow headlights blinded me and I spun the wheel wildly, hearing the screech of tires on asphalt between the incessant horns as I narrowly avoided being flattened by the oncoming truck.

“Christ,” I swore, fishtailing the car into a straight line and swiping at the sheen of sweat that had formed on my brow, my heart still racing.

Fucking macarons on a chopstick! I hadn't realized I’d been driving to my father’s safe house, w