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Commotion started filling the room as I held his eyes, and I knew without a doubt—with my friends back and Winter with me—that nothing he could threaten me with would change my course of action. I didn’t need him, his money, or his protection. I just wanted him gone. Away from this town and away from us. And if he didn’t leave willingly, I would not hesitate to use that little flash drive to send him away. It might not take him down, but I wouldn’t feel badly about trying.
I stilled as realization hit of how I was conceived. “You raped her.” He laughed and then shrugged. “Whatever.”
Rage filled my chest, my stomach twisted into knots, and every image of him flashed in my head. Raping her. Destroying her life. Stealing me away as she screamed. Forcing her to watch another woman raise me a few miles down the road. Giving me to that house and the horror I had to swallow.
I growled, grabbing him by the shoulder and shoving the goddamn dagger right into his fucking stomach.
Good boy!
I wanted to see this. I wanted to make sure he died.
What if I had to piss?
In fact, I’d noticed they were doing the same thing when they saw Will or Rika or Kai, too. All of us, in fact.
“You know,” she said. “There’s stuff in the house we can sell. Art, furniture, rugs . . . I have some jewelry, too.” “No.” “Damon—” “I’ll handle it.” I cut her off but kept my voice as gentle as possible. “I’ll get a job. I’ll deal with it. Don’t worry.”
A real man right there
“Someone liked the shit I built at your house,” I replied. “Wanted me to make a tree house and fountain for their property.” “And you said no?” “I don’t have time for that,” I shot back. “I need to get a job and figure out what we’re doing.” And then I paused, my back straightening and understanding dawning on me. “Ohhhhh.” “Yeah, dumbass!” she screeched. He was trying to hire me. To design and build.
YOU DUMMY
Ringing the doorbell, I slid a hand in my pants pocket, dressed in a black suit and black shirt, because it wasn’t Winter’s Damon I needed to be tonight.
Yum
“We’re going to rule the world, Rika.” I held out my hands, grinning. “You, Banks, and me.”
But then she mentioned kids and the smell being on my clothes and how secondhand smoke kills, and do I really want the baby to smell like shit? Ah, fuck it.
“I wish we didn’t have to leave the fountain,” she says. We don’t. Not yet anyway. Let them come find us.
The only woman who needed who I was and who was all I needed.
I didn’t deserve anything I had, but I was doing everything to make sure I’d deserve whatever came. We’d have the family we would make, our friends, and our home, and every fucking night, I’d have her right here, surrounding me and getting lost with me where the rest of the world didn’t exist, and it was just us.
I wish we never had to leave the fountain. We never did.
