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“No one,” I growled out, annoyed now that I’d opened my mouth, “People can’t be trusted.”
“They can. I can trust my sister. Benson. He’d move the world for me.”
“And has he?”
“Has he what?”
“What has Benson done for you lately?”
“You wouldn’t understand,” she growled.
“Oh I understand. It's the people closest to us who hurt the most. We show them our vulnerabilities, our most sensitive parts, and then they use that information to hurt us. They slide in their knives, even while our hearts are still beating for them.”
Eyes wide, she stared at me. “You can’t honestly believe that.”
“I don’t need to only believe it. It’s etched into my skin and onto the black and granite of my heart. I trust no one.”
“I feel sorry for you.” She shook her head, sadness filling her gaze, the kind that made anger billow. I didn’t need her pity.
“Don’t be naive. This world will chew you up and spit you out,” I growled, pushing her away.
“That’s how I am,” she argued. “I would do anything for the people I love.”
“Then at least do it with your eyes open. Wake up, girl.” I shook my head, disappointed, “I can’t help you anymore.”
“I never asked for your help!”
“And yet, I gave it.”
“Don’t you see, I can’t walk away?”
“Have they already caught you in their trap, little bunny? Showed you some pretty, shiny objects that you value more than our life? Or is it Tucker?” I spit out with disgust. “Did he promise to fill that pretty little pussy with his rich, shiny dick?”
Pain ricocheted across my cheek, her slap making my head snap to the side.
“Go away Rook. I never want to see you again.”
“Gladly,” I spread my arms out and bowed, then took a step back and away from her. “I will gladly never see your face again.” With a cold sneer, I turned. Stepping away from the stubborn woman who drove me nuts.
The woman who created a whirlwind of chaos and destruction, when everything else had been still and silent.
The woman who drove me to the edge of insanity, until I was standing on the edge of the cliff with no landing in sight.
Another step, and another, and another, until the world under me began to shake.
Because fuck it if I was tempted to jump over that edge.
To dive into her chaos. Extend my legs and soar, right off the edge, hands outwards and face upwards towards the sun.
It was driving me to madness, the constant thinking about her and wondering what she was up to.
The smells that reminded me of her, seeing her in every woman that walked past me.
It was danger of the highest kind.
I couldn't afford the distraction, and yet, I couldn't pull myself away.
I wanted to sever the umbilical cord of connection between us with a serrated edge knife. At the same time, I was compelled to wrap an arm around her waist and drag her into me, stealing a kiss from her that I knew I would never forget.
