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A chill runs down my spine. Slowly, everything becomes clearer. Especially the pain. My body is begging me for a way to let it all out. To cry and scream. It needs an outlet for the agony. But my mind has always been stronger. So I swallow past the horrific dryness, I toughen my stare, and I look straight into the devil’s eyes, awaiting my sentence.
“There she is.” There’s no change in his tone, no smile on his face. He doesn’t need to pretend when it’s just the two of us.
Nate is smart enough to know it would be dangerous for the world to discover who he really is. He puts on a perfect act even to his closest allies. He is a better leader if people think he can relate to them, or that he understands them.
But I know the truth.
Everything he does, he does it because it will reward him. Every move he makes is to lead him to more power. Everyone he surrounds himself with is a step on his ladder to success. Whatever that means in his fucking psychopathic mind.
He observes me silently for a long time, forcing me to move things forward if I want to ever get out of here.
“Where are we?” I would speak with a stronger voice if I wasn’t speeding on the highway to death. My desperate rasp will have to do for now.
“Is that what you want to start with? Not what I want? Not to beg for a glass of water? Not how long it’s been?”
Fucking bastard is having the time of his life, isn’t he?
His eyes narrow for a short second before it hits him. “Ah. I see. Where you are is a priority because if you manage to escape, you need to know which way to run.”
I make sure he can’t see it in my eyes that he got it perfectly right.
“Well...” I wonder if he knows his grip tightens on my hair. “Rest assured, you’re not going anywhere until I say so.”
It’s the effort of my life to stay quiet. Many people who have told me “you’re not going anywhere” were quickly proved wrong, but I don’t put it past Nate to literally chain me to the floor to keep me here.
“But if you insist.” He shrugs. “We’re in the very same house you wanted to buy for yourself.”
My heart stops.
If he’s been out for five months, then he was around while I was planning the bank robbery. He was out when I planned to buy this very house with the money I was going to steal.
A house in Stoneview.
The billionaire town right next to our city is an unattainable dream for every single person who grew up on the South Bank of Silver Falls. For us on the North Shore? It doesn’t even cross our minds. People are too busy surviving to dream.
I didn’t want to buy this house to have a nice place next to the dirty politicians and owners of conglomerates who live here. I wanted to wash my money. After his arrest, his house was seized, and it was going to be sold again. It’s easy in Stoneview to pay enough for people to look away and not check where the money comes from.
This house would have been mine if Emma hadn’t stolen the money from me. Of course, it wasn’t Emma. It was Nate.
“Kayla,” he chuckles, knowing perfectly that I’m connecting the dots. “You can’t be mad at me for sending Emma to steal the money you were going to use to buy my own house after you put me in prison based on pure lies. I am only playing fair here. Or, at least I’m playing by the rules you set by lying in court.”
What am I even meant to say to that? Yeah, Nate, you’re right. Why don’t you ruin my life, steal my town, and tie me to a fucking chair?
“Hey, at least you got what you wanted. You’re back in my house, little sunflower.”
This time, I can’t stop my upper lip from curling in anger. He knows this isn’t what I wanted. I wanted clean money. At least part of it. I wanted to use the other part to find my own suppliers of drugs without having to go through the Wolves. I wanted to become a big player in the game. What a joke.
A knock on the door startles me. He releases my hair, giving my neck a much-needed break. I don’t have the strength to hold myself up, and my head drops again, starting a new chain of throbbing within my entire body.
Nate walks back to the door, opening to no other than his closest man. Samuel Thomas.
My anger comes back double. I did him a favor in the past. He owed me, and he promised that, in the impossible chance of Nate getting out of prison, he would keep him away from the North Shore.
Sam eyes me, guilt flashing in his gaze before he focuses on his friend again. “Emma and her guys are here.”
“What?” A flash of adrenaline explodes in my body at the name of my lifelong enemy finding me in this position.
Is that his plan? Let her fucking kill me while I can’t defend myself?
