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I shrug him off. “I’m smarter than Billie Scott, thank you very much.”
“Sure,” he snorts. “You’re smarter than everyone else, except you’re the one locked in a house with no way out, your name on a marriage license you never wanted in the first place.”
“Tell you what,” I snarl. “If I’m not out of this shit by the girls’ birthday, you can get me out.”
“Another four months, then? Are you joking?”
“I’ll be out way before then. Do you think I could spend that long without seeing them? I know what I’m doing.”
He observes me, deep in his thoughts, and I feel the trust coming back. He knows I would never leave behind the two reasons that keep me alive. They’re my everything.
“Fine.”
“How the fuck did you get in?” I ask seriously, looking at the shut window.
He snorts. “I’ll have to keep my secret because, when I come back in four months, I don’t want your Stockholm syndrome ass to have an advantage over me and stop me from coming in.”
I roll my eyes. “You’re ridiculous.”
“Goodnight, big sis. I’ll see you soon.”
He heads toward the window, but I call to him one last time. “Cade.”
A hand on the glass, he twists around to face me.
“Elliot.” I scratch my throat. “Did he tell you about his decision regarding the North Shore?”
He shakes his head. “Fucking hell, what have you become? Waiting for Elliot to make a decision for the Kings.”
“Just answer the fucking question,” I grit out.
He shrugs. “I don’t know. I’m here for you, Kay. I don’t give a shit about the fate of the North Shore. It hasn’t been my problem for years.”
He hushes me away with his hand. “Now go back to your husband.”
“Shut up,” I bite back. Siblings are truly infuriating.
I look down at the phone. I’ll think about the plan again tomorrow.
I have Nate’s fate in the palm of my hand. I just need to decide what I want to do with it.
PART III
RETALIATION
No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full.
Sulla
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NATHAN
how will i rest in peace if i’m buried by a highway - KennyHoopla
I silence Sam’s call as soon as it comes in. Kay didn’t have any night terrors after I woke her up last night, but she’s still clinging to me like she can’t sleep any other way. And I somehow can’t get myself to push her sleeping form away from my body.
I send my best friend a text instead of calling him back.
