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“See you soon.”
Chloe embraces me quickly, and we kiss on the cheeks. Sarah leaves with them. With them gone, a maddening silence takes over. We hop in the car, and when we’re all seated, Sophia eyes us all and asks, “What happened? You’re all acting weird, and one of you better talk.”
“Yes, Bria, we’re all waiting. Why don’t you explain to her what you did?”
Alex can be intimidating when he wants to be, and I pierce him with a look. With a sigh from Damien and a light warning in Alex’s direction, he starts the engine, and when we’re far from the club, I say, “I started feeling weak . . .”
Silence descends, and Sophia asks in the same low tone, not to scare me off like I’m some kind of wild animal trapped in a corner, “Should we go to the hospital. You were fine when we came. Tell me the truth. Please, I have to know if you’re well.”
Her concern breaks my heart a little more, and the pain suffocates me, but I ignore it. It’s not physical pain.
“I’m doing fine under normal circumstances. The stress got to me.”
Damien grips the wheel. It might break under the pressure.
“And then I met Liam.”
“Liam?” she screeches, and my eyebrows knit together.
“A friend of Alex’s.” She shuts her eyes, clasps her wrist, and stares out the window, her chest heaving. She tilts her face back, and her composure is back.
“Bria . . .”
“He’s a friend, or was, whatever, so let me continue. He knew me, and he offered what I needed—my damn heart medicine. We talked for a while. That’s all, but then the crazy brigade came and acted like madmen.” She nods as if sure I was in no real danger.
“I was behaving like a madman? Do you hear yourself? I was worried. How about this, princess? I find you in a room with a man I didn’t even know existed until a few moments ago, and two bottles of pills. Can you process what I’m saying?”
His words stab my heart, and every word coming out of his mouth digs the knife deeper. Princess is a derogatory term to punish me. Yes, he was worried, but what does he think I’d do, cheat on him, start taking drugs? Never. Is his worry blinding him this much?
“Damien, stop the nonsense,” Sophia intervenes.
“You can’t be serious.”
“You should have come to me and not let a stranger give you god knows what.”
“He didn’t hurt me, and he never would. Alex, please,” I shout, having had enough.
“Liam knows she’s untouchable, but it still was stupid, Bria. If you were this curious, you could have asked me instead.”
“It wasn’t even about you. Everyone needs closure, I was his.”
Sophia huffs and crosses her arms over her chest, her eyes firing daggers. I officially understand nothing anymore, of who behaves crazier and why.
“Ah, and here we have our answer. Mother Teresa in action, giving absolution.” I blink at him, anger sizzling inside of me, and I say what he never heard from me until now. And here I thought we were moving forward in the maturity and trusting department.
“Fuck you, Damien.”
He stares at me for one second before he says, his tone dropping to sarcastic, “You already have.”
“Guys, stop it. I mean it. Just calm yourselves already. She’s fine, and Liam just helped her. You should be damn thankful. Damien, she isn’t in danger, and as Alex already said, she never was. Quit it now, both of you. You will never go alone to a restroom, like ever, Bria.”
I lean my head on the seat and whisper, “Believe me, it’s the only thing I regret doing tonight.”
“What happened in there? Something else happened too.”
“I’d rather not go there.”
Damien snaps his head at me and asks, “Are you kidding me?”
