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If I’m who she takes it out on? So be it!
“I don’t want to talk. I don’t want to remember. I just want to forget. I want his face out of my head. I want to forget how he shoved himself inside me. I want to stop feeling dirty. I was finally getting better. I was finally moving on.” Tears begin to fall from her eyes and mine.
I move closer to her and she begins to beat my chest. “He was there, Jax. He was right there. Looking at me with those same evil eyes.”
I wrap my arms around her. “Shh,” I croak out. “I’m here. I promise. I’ll make him pay.”
“But you can’t, Jax. He’ll ruin everything. For you and Zane. It’ll be all my fault. I can’t be the reason you lose everything.”
I tilt her chin up to me and squat a little so she can get the full meaning of my words through my eyes. “Zoey, how many times do I have to tell you. You are my everything. Football? Money? Baby, they don’t mean anything without you. And I’ll be damned if that piece of shit lays another fucking finger on you. I’d have killed him the other night, if I’d known.”
“That’s why I didn’t tell you. I can’t lose you again, Jax.”
“You won’t lose me, Zoey, but I swear to you, one way or another, he will pay.”
She looks at me with concern. “What do you mean?”
“The reason I didn’t come home, baby, is because Rory and I went to see Tori.”
“In New York,” she gasps.
I nod. My voice catches as I tell her, “she showed us the video, Zoey. Honestly, I’d already figured it out, but without you telling me, I couldn’t be sure if I was right or just reaching. But she had it right there on her phone.”
“I thought she was just saying that to get him to leave,” she says with surprise. Then she looks up at me with a look of panic. “Promise me you won’t go after him, Jax. Please don’t go after him.”
“I can’t promise that, baby. You know I won’t.”
“I’m so sorry, Jax. This. All of this is my fault,”
I lift her up, and carry her to bed. I pull the covers up over her, then return to the closet to throw some clothes on. When I return to bed, she’s sound asleep. I slip in behind her, and pull her tight to my chest. I silently vow that Aaron Alden will answer for what he did. I don’t care how, but he will pay for the pain he has cause Zoey.
Zoey
There’s a loud banging at the door, waking me from much needed sleep. Jax groans beside me as I look at the clock. It’s ten in the morning. We only went to sleep about three hours ago.
Boom, boom, boom.
The knocking is obnoxiously loud to be at the front door. Until I realize that no one can knock at our front door, and the sound is coming from the bedroom door. I jump up, my heart pound wondering if he figured out how to get to me. I find myself crawling until my back hits the headboard as I shake.
“Hey, hey,” Jax says coming to, and seeing the despair on my face. “It’s okay. It’s probably just Zane.”
He pulls me to him and rubs my back as the beating on the door continues. “Zane, so help me God if you don’t stop, I am going to kick your ass. You’re scaring the hell out of your sister.”
“Fuck,” I hear my brother murmur from the other side of the door, and my heart instantly slows down. I slump into Jax.
I start to say ‘sorry’, but he places his lips against mine first. “No more –,”
“Sorry,” I whisper.
He shakes his head with a chuckle. “Come on. Let’s get in there before he starts beating on the door again,” he tells me pulling me out of the bed.
A groan slips his lips when he realizes I’m still naked. It makes me blush a little. It also makes me feel bad. It’s week over two weeks since we were together last.
I understand why he can’t. I also know he understands my reactions. But I’ve got to get through it somehow. I miss the intimacy between us as much as he probably does.
I quickly throw on a pair of shorts and a tank top. We exit the bedroom together to find Zane standing in the living room looking a little worked up.
“What the fuck, Zee,” Jax huffs. “You scared the hell out of her.”
